Politics: Joe Lieberman Is a Boil

... upon the collective behind of humanity.


Our dear readers know quite well how fond we are of Senator Lieberman (I-Me). His placing the State of Israel's interests above America's interests has done more harm to Israel than good.

Frankly, we find the repellent little bottom-dweller (in every sense of the word) utterly unbearable. He is a sanctimonious, whining, liar. A greedy shill. A pathetic, craven little man, cowering at every shadow and willing to give up not just his, but our, collective civil liberties to assuage his pathetic, weak-kneed fears.

So, it is with great delight that we at this fine blog announce today that the Huffington Post is reporting that Brave New Films has collected some 43,000 signatures in a petition to the Senate Democratic Caucus' steering committee to strip Lieberman of his various positions of power within that Caucus.

From BNF's site:

We CANNOT tolerate a leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus who supports George Bush and McCain's War in Iraq. We CANNOT tolerate a Democratic chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee who endorses and stumps for McCain. We call on the Senate Democratic Steering Committee to strip Joe Lieberman of his chairmanship and his leadership role.

I should think not! This cowardly lyin' went to Iraq in full body armour with hundreds of ordinary GIs forming a human shield around him to stroll around the marketplaces of Baghdad and had the gall to come back here and declare that Iraq was "safe." In essence, telling the parents, siblings, lovers, children, neighbours, and friends of men and women in the uniform of the nation that it was OK to send their loved ones out there to be shot, wounded, maimed, and killed.

Jowls quivering with faux indignation, Holy Joe screeched and wept crocodile tears over Bill Clinton's sexual indiscretions with an adult woman in a voluntary liaison. Yet he has shed, to date, not a single tear for a million murdered Iraqis, or the 4.5 million refugees, the wounded and maimed. He has not shed a single tear for American soldiers and civilians killed, injured, and suffering because of that Barsoomianly bisyllabic bozo, Jor Jee Bush. Children of both nations have lost their parents, and parents have lost their children. But Holy Joe's children are not in harm's way, so what does he care? His children - Matt Lieberman, his son by his first marriage, Rebecca Lieberman, his daughter by his first marriage, Ethan Tucker, his stepson, and Hana Lieberman, his daughter with his lobbyist wife Hadassah - are all sitting safely in the U.S. out of harm's way.

Matt is, apparently, the head of the Katherine and Jacob Greenfield Hebrew Academy of Atlanta. He's unlikely to be killed or wounded unless the nerdy students of the Academy decide, a highly unlikely event, that he has inherited his father's nasal, complaining whine and decide to remedy such genetic inheritance by machine-gunning him right out of the gene pool.

Rebecca, when last publicized by the NYT, was making $75K p.a. at the New York City Board of Education; but that was eight years ago, and she's probably pulling down six figures now. Although we understand that New York City is probably more dangerous than Atlanta, Rebecca is also highly unlikely to be wounded or killed in the line of duty. It's our understanding that the Board of Ed in NYC may be more highly charged than similar bodies in other cities and states, but we have not heard any rumours of board members offing each other or undesirable employees. Let us fervently hope that she did not inherit Daddy Dearest's vocal chords. If there is one thing that could drive otherwise peaceable people to murder, that voice would probably be it.

Stepson Ethan Tucker is a Rabbi, according to the Jewish Ledger. Fortunately, he is the biological spawn of Lieberman's wife Hadassah, from a previous marriage. As a result, he is not likely to inspire anyone to wound or kill him to stifle the trademark Lieberwhore whine. To his credit, Rabbi Tucker is a committed supporter of Barack Obama.

Daughter Hana, now 20 years old, is in college. Hopefully, her father's vocal chords have died out with him. Otherwise, the poor child might find herself Darwinized, as the Sanctimonious Bleat that is the very life and trademark of Holy Joe is not to be borne by mortals.

While these four Lieberspawn live their lives untroubled by such matters as PTSD, destroyed limbs and lives, TBI, and inadequate health care and lack of support from the warmongers such as Lieberwhore himself who cheerfully send other people's children to die in places they would never send their own sacred spawn, we observe the daily body count in Iraq and Afghanistan and note that Usama bin Laden is still at large and the Iraqis are now demanding a withdrawal timetable from the U.S. Will wonders never cease?

At any rate, if you are as fond of the Liebergasbag as we are, we urge you to hie yourself forthwith to this site and sign the damned petition. Surely there's more than 43,000 of us that would like to see this sanctimonious prick cashiered.

Any feminists or nonfeminist women who might consider censuring us for stomping the pathetic old weasel are advised to consider Holy Joe's sanctimonious support for the right of medical personnel and hospitals to refuse contraceptive assistance to female rape victims. Consider this in the light of Holy Joe's support of Catholic, anti-women's-rights judges John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Holy Joe may pay lip service to women's right to choose, and how could he do anything else given the position of the majority of his constituents on the issue? But his support for women goes no further than his lips. He's pretty sanguine about telling a rape victim to get herself to another hospital if the one the ambulance takes her to won't help her exercise her right to choose.

Prick.

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2008 Elections: Kick The Vichycrat Out NOW!

Senator Joe "Bootlicker" LIEberWhore is at it again, doing his best impersonation of a Republican.

Democrats, if you don't get a nice big majority in Senate AND House this year, you should all just quit politics. Because there is NO excuse, absolutely NO excuse for a pathetic whining scumbag like Joe Lieberman to hold any kind of political office or power. None whatsoever.

Here he is at his slimy, crawling best:

To: Fellow McCain Supporters

From: Senator Joe Lieberman

Date: June 5th, 2008

Today, I asked Senator McCain if I could create and chair a new grassroots organization, “Citizens for McCain.”

Citizens for McCain is an organization within the McCain campaign for people who put country before political party and support the candidate for President who has a proven record of bipartisanship.

As you know, I caucus with the Democrats as a United States Senator and was the Democrat Party’s nominee for Vice-President of the United States against President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

But first and foremost, I am an American. I have an obligation to do what I think is best for our nation regardless of political party. My love for this country and strong belief in John McCain’s character, judgment, and willingness to work with leaders of both parties has convinced me to support him for President.

I have worked with John McCain for many years in the U.S. Senate and know from experience that he can unite Democrats, Republicans and Independents like no one else in this country. He did it in the United States Senate and he can do it as President of the United States.

But we need help from McCain supporters such as you to reach out to Americans who are not currently involved in the campaign. Will you help us by recruiting your friends, family, and co-workers who may not consider themselves members of the Republican Party and ask them to join the Citizens for McCain organization?

I am confident we will find many Democrats and Independents who, like John McCain and me, put country before political party and will support a leader with a real record of bipartisanship.

Time and time again John McCain has put his country first. He refused early release when he was held captive in Vietnam. He continued to put his country first as a national leader in the U.S. Senate. He put country before party when he fought to pass campaign finance reform, sought a bi-partisan solution to the immigration problem, and consistently supported pro-environment policies. His courage to stand up to the failed Iraq war plan of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and lead the fight for a new strategy in Iraq will go down in history, and it saved American lives. These were not always the easy things to do. In fact, they were usually very difficult, and often threatened his political career. But John McCain did what was right.

He said it best in his speech in New Orleans on Tuesday night:

“(The American people) know I have a long record of bipartisan problem solving. They’ve seen me put our country before any President — before any party — before any special interest — before my own interest. They might think me an imperfect servant of our country, which I surely am. But I am her servant first, last and always.”

The phones at the campaign headquarters have been ringing with disaffected Democrats calling to say they believe Senator McCain has the experience, judgment, and bipartisanship necessary to lead our country in these difficult times. Many of these supporters are former supporters of Senator Clinton.

Senator McCain has had a very good working relationship with Senator Clinton and will continue to do so in the future.

You mean, like when he told a bunch of you slimy politicians that Chelsea Clinton was so ugly because Janet Reno was her father? You seem to have forgotten that about Senator McCain, Joe.

In the same New Orleans speech he said:

“Senator Clinton has earned great respect for her tenacity and courage. The media often overlooked how compassionately she spoke to the concerns and dreams of millions of Americans, and she deserves a lot more appreciation than she sometimes received. As the father of three daughters, I owe her a debt for inspiring millions of women to believe there is no opportunity in this great country beyond their reach. I am proud to call her my friend.”

I am proud to call John McCain my friend and ask you to help our friend become the next President of the United States.

Please forward this email to your lists today and ask your friends, family, and coworkers who do not consider themselves Republicans to join me in filling out the Citizens for McCain form today.

Thank you for your willingness to help me expand this new organization. Together, we will make history

If he's hoping to be McCain's Veep, he's got a big second think coming. McCain has already blown all of AIPAC, he doesn't need Joe for that, and NoMojoe will frighten away the fundies who think the Antichrist is a Jew.

Get that, Joe?

Connecticut, can't you do something about this guy? He's an embarrassment to vertebrate life, fer cryin' out loud.

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Politics: Worst Person Lifetime Award

We fully expect the masses to rise as one, crying out that there are more deserving recipients out there for the Worst Person Lifetime Award. But we beg to differ.

Our Worst Person of a Lifetime Award goes to annoying, nasal, preachy, whining, sanctimonious, buttlicker Joseph I. LIEberWhore (I-Me).

Remember when that preachy, irritating, sanctimonious little pantysniffer got on the stage to decry his erstwhile ally and friend's behaviour as "immoral"? Apparently, taking money from big Pharma to fuck your constituents over is not immoral, but consensual sex with a consenting adult is. Apparently, having your wife work as a lobbyist for Big Pharma without registering as such is not immoral, a blowjob is. Who knew? Not Joe, AIPAC's bought and paid-for tool.

And then in 2006, along came Ned Lamont to contest Joe LIEberWHORE for the Connecticult Democratic Primary. And Lamont won. So LIEberman then engaged in an act of thuggery that one would hope never to see in a political campaign. Either deliberately and maliciously, or through sheer incompetence and stupidity, LIEberman caused his own Website to malfunction, and blamed Lamont and unspecified "hackers" for it.

Lamont's people denied any involvement but generously offered to assist the lying whore and his incompetent thugs in resolving the issue, an offer that was declined (one can only wonder why). Now it turns out that shortly after LIEberman and his hunchman Dangerstein made the accusations, the FBI investigated and found that the problem was attributable to the LIEberman campaign itself. It cleared Lamont of wrongdoing.

Did LIEberman reveal this information to anyone? No. Did he apologize to the people he LIEd about? No. Did he retract his lies and smears? Of course not, are you smoking something?

No, the little weasel went on to run as an independent and by means fair or foul ended up winning the Senate seat.

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? Why, we do believe it is the light of Emptywheel's gaze upon further wrongdoing by the LIEberman campaign?

We've been waiting since 2006 for the issue of LIEberman's slush funds and campaign law violations to be raised with the appropriate bodies.

Yeah, yeah, you ask why we didn't do it ourselves. We only started our political awakening with Hurricane Katrina. By the time Lamont was elected, we were taking our first tiny baby steps. Emptywheel, on the other hand, had cut her teeth on these issues long ago. There is not a better-informed commentator on the Valerie Plame affair.

Let's hope this is the beginning of the end for the LIEberwhore. The buyers' remorse being experienced by Connecticut voters can surely bring this pathetic little putz down. Even if Harry Reid is too pusillanimous a pussy to strip the ratfucker of his committees and assignments. Speaking of which, even as Henry Waxman holds hearing after hearing, uncovering unbelievable wrongdoing in every branch of government, Shillator Joe is flying hither and yon on the taxpayer's dime in support of his good friend and fellow Bush buttlicker, John McCain.

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Is this what you expected? Isn't it LIEberman's job to hold inquiries into the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?

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Iraq: Two Milestones

Well, we reached two milestones in Iraq this week:

• The fifth anniversary of the illegal and immoral war of occupation;
  
• Over 4,000 troops killed in combat

You'll notice that we qualified the numbers killed with the words "in combat." There's a good reason for this. According to Greg Mitchell over at HuffPo, over 1,000 troops who served in Iraq have committed suicide, either there or after they return.

The hardest thing to bear about this is the news in Raw Story today that 97 per cent of these casualties occurred after a certain pathetic waste of oxygen who shall remain forever nameless declared "Mission Accomplished."

At least 97 percent of the deaths occurred after US President George W. Bush announced the end of "major combat" in Iraq on May 1, 2003, as the military became caught between a raging anti-American insurgency and brutal sectarian strife unleashed since the toppling of Saddam.

140 American servicemembers died before May 1, 2003, out of a total 4,000.

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The icasualties.org statistics reveal that the deadliest year for the military in Iraq was 2007 when it lost 901 troops on the back of a controversial "surge", which saw an extra 30,000 soldiers deployed in a bid to break the stranglehold of violence that has killed tens of thousands of Iraqis.

This figure compares with 486 deaths in 2003, the first year of the conflict, 849 in 2004, 846 in 2005 and 822 in 2006.

Since the start of 2008, 96 soldiers have died.

Snarly McCrashcart's response, beyond the original "So?" when he heard that two out of every three Americans oppose the military occupation of Iraq, is telling.

"The president carries the biggest burden, obviously," Cheney said. "He's the one who has to make the decision to commit young Americans, but we are fortunate to have a group of men and women, the all-volunteer force, who voluntarily put on the uniform and go in harm's way for the rest of us."

Essentially, it boils down to "They volunteered. Tough shit."

Those of you in the military, you and your families are seen as expendable cannon fodder by the people you have sworn to obey. George Dubya hasn't lost a moment's sleep while you slog out in the desert heat surrounded by potential enemies, fed contaminated water by Dick Cheney's company.

Sent to war for a lie, sent to die, leaving your grieving families and friends behind, or to return irreparably injured or damaged, only to find that you have been fed lie upon lie upon lie. Today's lie? The Pentagon says it can't find any evidence that Saddam Hussein ever tried to have Georgie's Daddy killed. One more pathetic excuse for that worthless war blown away.

And John McPain, who wants 100 years of war, and claims to be a Christian but doesn't even know the story of Queen Esther and Purim, doubtless has never heard this verse, either:

In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Matthew, 2:18, Mr. McInsane.

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2008 Elections: Sound Judgment Trumps Experience

When Joe LIEberwhore (I-Me) of Connecticut ran for his state's Democratic Party nomination, he was roundly defeated by challenger Ned Lamont. Whereupon he decided to run as an independent and by dint of some questionable tactics, managed to win the election.

A lot of voters responded to LIEberman's assertion that he had the experience necessary to represent them in Washington. After all, Ned Lamont, although he had all the right qualities and promised to work to end the illegal, immoral war of occupation in Iraq, didn't have the EXPERIENCE.

Well, the Connecticut newspaper, TheDay, decided to endorse LIEberman, based on his EXPERIENCE. They appear to be learning the painful lesson that, just because you've been doing the wrong thing for 20 years or more doesn't mean that you'll apply all that EXPERIENCE to doing the right thing later on down the line.

Rather than building the bridges The Day expected when it endorsed Sen. Lieberman, he appears busy burning bridges with the party of which he is allegedly still a member. Perhaps the senator is positioning himself for a top cabinet post in a McCain presidency. But if the Democrats prevail, and enlarge their control of the Senate, it is hard to imagine this Connecticut senator being welcomed back with open arms.

The only good thing to come out of this is that Joe LIEberman (Asshole-AIPAC) is finally being exposed for the snake that he is. All his hypocritical moralizing about where Clinton's weenie was, was just posturing. Who is more immoral, Clinton for his sexual obsessions? Or LIEberman's for failing to disclose that his wife, Hadassah, was a "senior counsellor" for Big Pharma, whatever that means. Apparently it means you can function as a lobbyist without having to register as one. It should come as no surprise that Big Pharma showed their appreciation for Hadassah Lieberman's "counsel" by pouring money into her husband's campaign. As the Salon article (registration required) says:

Among Hill & Knowlton's clients when Mrs. Lieberman signed on with the firm last year was GlaxoSmithKline, the huge British-based drug company that makes vaccines along with many other drugs. As I noted in July, Sen. Lieberman introduced a bill in April 2005 (the month after his wife joined Hill & Knowlton) that would award billions of dollars in new "incentives" to companies like GlaxoSmithKline to persuade them to make more new vaccines. Under the legislation, known as Bioshield II, the cost to consumers and governments would be astronomical, but for Lieberman and his Republican cosponsors, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., the results would be worth every penny. Using the war on terror as their ideological backdrop, the pharma-friendly senators sought to win patent extensions on products that have nothing to do with preparations against terrorist attack or natural disaster.

Which translates to, "once a whore, always a whore." So much for that "morality" for which The Day praised the Senatewhore.

We're facing a major election soon. One that could change this nation. Hopefully, TheDay's saga illustrates the relative importance of experience versus judgment.

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2008 Elections: Remaining Neutral

La Casa de Los Gatos has tried to remain neutral as the political storms rage. Friends (including our co-bloggers) made it known early and often on which side of the fence they stood, and asked us our political position.

We here are all about participatory democracy, and we have hesitated to state our own position because we want all our friends, visitors, acquaintances, colleagues, neighbours &mdash and even our enemies &mdash to vote. To engage in politics at every level and participate in creating the country that they want to live in.

As we watched the sleazebags on all sides of the political spectrum steal power for themselves by stealing the vote, we have often despaired but we have not spoken out exclusively for any candidate. We made no secret of the fact that we wished Dennis Kucinich would win the election. But we're pragmatic, for all our foolishness, and knew that he didn't stand much of a chance. We hoped Edward might win because we are pro-labour and we feel working people are getting screwed in this country, without even the courtesy of a little lube and a kiss.

Above all, we felt it was more important to focus on fixing the mess the country is in than espousing any one candidate. Now the time has come for us to take a stand. Today, we're going to discuss the possibilities and take a position.

John McCain is the Republican nominee. We have always had a fondness for McCain because he is an intelligent, funny, cranky guy who doesn't &mdash make that didn't &mdash always toe the party line. You could count on him to say something silly or eccentric or even against his own best interests at times.

When he wised up and realized just how much the Republican Party stalwarts hated him, he decided &mdash because he wants to stay in politics &mdash that he'd better mend fences. There is no way that John McCain could ever pretend to be a Democrat, so he didn't try (unlike LIEberman) switching parties. He didn't try to run as a Libertarian or an Independent. He decided to be the best Republican he could be.

Unfortunately, that meant cozying up to some pretty slimy people &mdash like Karl Rove and the religious right. It's not for nothing that Rove is now fawning on McCain's adopted daughter. On the other hand, Chimpy McFuckface served McCain hot dogs for lunch when he endorsed him, and knowing Chimpy's mean streak, we do not believe that was mere happenstance.

McCain's betraying the best part of himself &mdash his eccentric streak &mdash for power sealed his fate. When he stood up and called the religious right on its hate-mongering, few people had the guts to stand with him. When he embraced hate-monger Jerry Falwell, he lost the respect he had worked so hard to earn. When he embraced Bush and Rove, who stuck him in the back like a pig at slaughter &mdash how can anybody respect a man who lets a slime merchant like Rove take shots at his family? Sorry, John. When you sell yourself for political power, you become a common whore. We can't afford to elect you if you're going to keep the country in a war for another hundred years, or even four years. There's too much broken that needs fixing. We need someone to start the fixing, not drag out the breaking.

We haven't said anything negative about Hillary Clinton to date. We remember the Clinton years, and they were mostly good years. Our 401(k) was growing daily, life was good, people were happy. Sure, there were assholes like Newt "Pouty Wife-Dumper" Gingrich in Congress, but life was so good, we never even thought about them.

But as the battle for the Democratic nomination drags on, we're finding ourselves in the uncomfortable position of really not liking Senator Clinton much. We could live with that if we felt she would fix the country. But when she practically urged voters who didn't want to support her to choose John McCain instead, we had to draw the line. McCain will not fix the country. He does not seem to understand the terrible economic problems we're facing, the health care crisis, the inequity that is breaking the back of the working class and the middle class. He wants tax cuts. He wants war. That is not going to fix the country.

And for you, Ms. Clinton, to endorse him over your Democratic rival Barack Obama, is unconscionable. Loyal Democrats &mdash mostly working people, poor people, young people, students, women, and union workers &mdash did not give their dollars to you and to the Democratic Party just so that you could ensure the election of a warmonger who will prolong the suffering of this nation. You have repeatedly voted for war, even going so far as to declare another sovereign nation's military to be terrorists. As a lawyer, you should have found the Kyl-Lieberman bill a complete travesty. You should have voted against it. We could overlook your previous lapses in judgment, but your inability to manage your campaign, your inability to rein in your husband and your employees and set high standards for them, your willingness to "throw the kitchen sink" at a fellow-Democrat to the detriment of the party and your supporters &mdash that we can't overlook.

When you lost one state after another to Senator Obama, we figured there were a lot of people out there who were beginning to have their doubts about you too. Then came the kitchen sink, and you won the popular vote in Texas (though not the majority of delegates) and in Ohio.

But shortly before these elections, we hear, Rush Limbaugh urged Republicans to cross party lines and vote for Hillary Clinton because he expected Senator Clinton to "bloody" Senator Obama up.

Senator Clinton, if you knew that and embarked on this disastrous course of action anyway, then you really ought to switch parties. You're doing the Republicans' dirty work for them. And if you didn't know it, then you're not politically savvy enough to run this country. Most disheartening of all is the news that is coming out of Ohio, where you won by a significant margin against Senator Obama.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer informs us that 16,000 Republicans crossed party lines to vote for you, Senator Clinton. Why would these people commit fraud and put themselves in danger of criminal prosecution? You can switch parties at the polls in Ohio, but must pledge allegiance to your new party

Lying on the pledge is a felony, punishable by six to 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine.

[...]

Edward Foley, an election-law professor at Ohio State University [...] said Ohioans need to learn the rules governing their voting - and poll workers need to enforce them.

If a majority of poll workers at a precinct doubt a voter's sincerity, they can challenge the voter even if the voter signed the pledge.

[...]

"Elections are not something you should be playing games with," [Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman Rob] Frost said last week during a telephone interview.

Rob Frost is to be commended for taking such a stand. Further troubling reports of fraud in Ohio here.

Thus we find ourselves in the position of supporting Barack Obama in the elections. We're deeply cynical, at heart, and all politicians pretty much look the same to us. So to Senator Obama, we say, please don't disappoint us. Please. Don't turn out to be just like the rest of these whores and liars we've suffered with for the past X years.

We will do everything we can to ensure you win the party's nomination and the general election &mdash sadly, not so much because you have convinced us you're The Second Coming, but because the two people running against you are pretty much guaranteed to fuck the country up as much or even more than Gee Dumbya already has.

Senator Clinton, you worked really hard to lose our support. Once the nomination has been clinched &mdash hopefully by Senator Obama &mdash perhaps the required fence-mending can begin. But you have done yourself, your party, and your country a disservice. Although I really doubt you give a good goddamn.

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2008 Elections: Say WHAT?

Raw Story is reporting that John McCain is about to swiftboat his own campaign. No, let's try that again. Raw Story is reporting that John McCain just got diagnosed with senile dementia. No, one more time. John McCain has decided that shooting his own foot off makes more sense than winning the election. Better.

Oh, all right. Slimebucket, manwhore, and official Bush-fellater Joe LIEberman has oozed across the aisle to endorse McCain because he's hoping that McCain's advanced Alzheimer's or Jakob-Creutzfeld or outright senility will cause him to actually accept as a potential VP the skanky pusbag who lied to the voters of Connecticut about his anti-war stance and has done nothing but support the war in Iraq ever since. Yup, the same slobbering creep who has refused to open an investigation into FEMA's mishandling of Katrina is aiming to be John McCain's VP.

Can you think of a better reason to vote for Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, or Ron Paul? (Rudy Giuliani is already out of the race, he just doesn't know it yet.) If there is a more reprehensible bucket of walking spooge than Joe LIEberwhore (R-Israel) in Congress today, we'd really like their name.

According to the Wall Street Journal's "Washington Wire" blog, McCain drooled as he dithered:

“He’d be a great partner in any endeavor, including joining America together,” McCain told WSJ reporter Alex Frangos in response to a question on the Lieberman factor. “Let’s reach across the aisle, let’s work together for America. That’s what Joe Lieberman is all about."

Yeah, it would be nice if the lying little scumbag would consider reaching across to the Democratic side of the aisle occasionally. Reacharound is what the pathetic little putz is all about. Let's not forget that his wife is a long-time lobbyist for Big Pharma who has done her best to cover up that fact, including failing to register as a lobbyist. Let's not forget that Joe, after being rejected by his own party, decided to run as an "independent," and subsequently re-registered as a Democrat. Let's not forget that LIEberwhore is a liar, a hypocrite, a sanctimonious moralizer, a weasel, and a warmonger who, jowls quivering with fake-pious indignation, upbraided Bill Clinton for having sex with someone but has yet to call the Cannibal King on a war that has killed over 1 million, injured and maimed more than 1 million more, destroyed families, and utterly subverted the Constitution.

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2008 Elections: LIEberman shows his true colors

But RevRob is right on it, with his wonderful cartoon:


Isn't that just beautiful? It's finally beginning to draw people's attention, that LIEberman is nothing but a sleazy, lying, neocon AIPAC whore who will sell his butt to any bidder. Of course, now that he's lent a little Joementum to McCain's listing campaign, he'll probly sink it in double-quick time.

The fact is, LIEberman doesn't care in the least about the Democratic party, about America, about the law, about the constitution. All he cares about is his money, power, status, and Israel. And I'm not sure about the last item on that list, because if he truly cared about the state of Israel, he would work for a lasting peace in the middle-east that would enable Israel to remain peaceful, safe, and prosperous. Instead, he does everything he can to start new wars, threatening Israel's very existence - the schmuck.

And then he finds toadies like supposed "democratic consultant" Bob Beckel to go shill on that conservative haven, Faux News, for him. Raw Story tells us:

In a Monday appearance on Fox News, longtime Democratic operative Bob Beckel said that MoveOn's successful push to see Lieberman defeated in his 2006 primary race was now coming back to bite Democrats.

"This is the price...us Democrats pay for MoveOn.org and others who drove Joe Lieberman out of the party," said Beckel. "They campaigned against him actively and raised money against him and he was beaten in the Democratic primary. ... now we're paying the price and all I can say is 'a pox on their house."

Say whatever you want, you toothless old mumbler. HoJoe LIEberman drove himself out of the party - when two-thirds of his constituents wanted an end to the Iraq war, he supported Chimperor McWitless in every aspect of that miserable unplanned illegal immoral war of occupation. He lied during the primary but lost the people's support anyway. Then he cheated and lied and shilled throughout the election and narrowly won the vote, only to repudiate his constituents yet again.

It's not MoveOn who have forced HoJoe to abstain from any inquiry into the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It's not MoveOn who have forced HoJoe to proffer up the amendment that treats a sovereign nation's armed forces as a terrorist organization. While the House investigates thoroughly all the recent disasters for which the Chimperor is responsible, the Senate committees it seems can barely muster enough energy to pull their collective thumb out of their collective rear end. And the blame for that rightly rests on Lieberman, not on MoveOn.

Are you trying to tell me, Mr. Beckel, that a politician should place his own petty resentments above the good of the party and the country?

As for driving HoJoe out of the party, you need to do your research. He has reregistered as a Democrat. Probably only to give the worst of the Republicans a little political cover, but then again.

And why exactly are you airing all this noise on Faux News, Mr. Beckel? Why not go on some program that has a little genuine journalistic integrity? That might ask you some real questions? Eh?

A pox on both your houses. Whatta pair of putzes.

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Politics: FISA Passes, No Immunity

Wow. How much good news can I take before my head explodes? I'm a little under the weather today, so maybe this will keep me from getting sick before a long plane journey.

At any rate, Raw Story tells us that the House of Representatives passed the FISA bill requiring judicial oversight (yay! No more warrantless wiretaps! We hope.) and told the telcos that they've squeezed enough out of the ratepayers to afford their own goddamned lawyers. Yes!

On a 224-192 vote, largely along party lines, the House adopted its proposal to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The measure, known as the RESTORE Act, would replace a temporary FISA update approved in August.

The bill does not include a provision to grant legal immunity to telecommunications companies that the Bush administration has demanded and it restores the role of the FISA court in approving surveillance methods used by the National Security Agency that could ensnare Americans.

In other news, the Senate is debating the bill currently, and their bill does grant immunity to the telcos, grrr. The only Senator who seems to ever stand up for the people, Russ Feingold, is planning to strip the telcos' immunity, but I'm sure Dianne "Brought My Own Lube, George" FeinSTAIN and Joe "Should I Bend Over And Spread 'Em Now, George?" LIEberwhore will fight tooth and nail to ensure that the people's rights get trampled in the rush to give the telcos whatever they fucking want. God I hate those two losers.

The vote was entirely along party lines, and man, am I glad we put more Democrats into office in 2006! Just looking back at the preceding six years and the plethora of civil rights abuses, corruption, scandal, rubberstamping - EESH!

Raw Story is working on the story right now, so pop by to toss them some dosh and catch the latest details.

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Politics - Faux News And The Drums of War

Yay, Bernie Sanders! Yay Robert Greenwald!


Finally, someone has the guts and the brains to take on Teh Mighty Wurlitzer - the Republican Party media machine that guarantees only certain voices and viewpoints are heard, the Fairly Unbalanced shrill conservatives who mindlessly echo this misadministration's talking points until ordinary citizens come to believe those voices in their heads are their own. From AP:

MONTPELIER, Vt. - Condemning the Fox News Channel as a warmonger that's agitating for a U.S. attack on Iran, documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald and independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders announced an "online viral video campaign" Wednesday calling on television news organizations "not to follow Fox down the road to war again."

Greenwald, the director behind "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" and "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price," has compiled a new three-minute video that mashes clips from Fox's coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath with recent coverage of possible U.S. military action against Iran.

The video and an accompanying "open letter" to ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN — viewable at http://www.FoxAttacks.com — urge news organizations to ask tough questions about administration policy on Iran and say citizens should pressure them to do so.

I don't suppose I need to add that the journalistic establishment, as represented by one Bob Steele, the Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values at the Poynter Institute school for journalists, is sniffily dismissive of the whole thing. So, so new media, y'know.

Personally, I'd rather hearken to the likes of Christiane Ahmanpour, who is quoted in the story and the clip, pointing out that the misadministration and its thugs at Faux News have worked to intimidate the press as much as they can. One of the reasons we no longer have a free press, in Teh Greatest Democracy In Teh World.

Quote from Sanders:

"We have got to put pressure on the mass media not to play the same craven role they played in Iraq, when they effectually collapsed and became a megaphone for Bush's policies," Sanders said. "What Robert is saying here is that the leader of that effort is Fox News, which in many ways is simply a propaganda machine for the Republican Party and the Bush administration."

He's only saying what those of us with a fucking grain of sense have known forever. Yay, Bernie! Long live the Free State of Vermont.

Vermonters, you now have official permission to look down your noses at the idiots in Connecticut and Maine, who elected feebs like Joe "BlowdaPrez" Lieberwhore and that Susan "KneepadsForBush" Collins.

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Politics - How Independent Can A WarWhore Be?

More Than Just Best Friends

Joseph Lieberman lost his party's nomination on his previous run for Senate. He then proceeded to run against the party's chosen candidate as an "independent." He engaged the assistance of the Young Republicans to win. He also engaged in some other equally questionable practices. In the end, the gullible fools who voted for him got their wish. He won. And ever since then, he threatens, on a weekly basis, to leave the Democratic Party, to vote with the Republicans on important issues, to cut his Democratic colleagues off at the knees in any way he can. He provides cover for the Republicans as often as he possibly can, on every issue. While Henry Waxman holds inquiry after inquiry, revealing lies, deception, and waste of public money on the part of this administration, Lieberman has managed to keep the Senate from doing anything useful. His promise to uncover the misdeeds that led to the devastation of New Orleans have been hollow indeed. Till today, two years after the disaster, the citizens of that once-beautiful city are still battling to return, to be given decent housing, to hold anyone accountable for the mess, even to force profiteer Jeb Bush to provide decent equipment in the no-bid contract his firm won to supply New Orleans with pumps.

Lieberman took money from Republican donors to win his campaign. And he's always taken money from lobbyists for various industry groups. His wife, Hadassah, is a lobbyist.

Again and again, Lieberman has shown that his only interest is in lining his own pocket and feeding his own ego. America be damned. Her citizens be damned. If he can get a little kiss or two from Georgie, that's better than pinning the responsibility for the damaged pumps of New Orleans on Georgie's brother, right? He continues to support, loudly and vocally, this horrendously unpopular war - a war in which none of his children is enlisted to fight.

This has gone far enough. It should be obvious to anyone who has an occasional stray thought meander through their head that Joe Lieberman will support a Republican - any republican, even one so thoroughly repugnant as Rudy Giuliani - against any Democrat, any day. So says PSoTD, and I agree. The spiteful, nasty, petulant Little Joe loves to yank the chains of anyone he perceives as having crossed his monstrously inflated ego.

Well, the time has come to put an end to his whoring. I'm fairly certain Lieberman will support Giuliani or Romney, if either of those idiots ends up winning the nomination. I don't think he'll support Huckabee, Brownback, or Tancredo, given that his constituents are way to the left of those two neanderthals. Tommy Thompson is as good as gone, and Fred Thompson just isn't going to commit, and he's waiting too long. Soon any interest in him as a viable candidate will have faded.

DailyKos has the results of the Iowa straw poll, and Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Sam Brownback are the first three. Tom Tancredo came fourth, Ron Paul fifth. Giuliani had a poor showing, but most likely because he didn't bother to show up. McCain, the Thompsons, and Duncan Hunter are pretty much out of the running, I think. Lieberman would certainly find it easy to throw his support to any of them.

So your action item, should you choose to accept it, is to "out" Lieberman. Write your Democratic congresscritter or Senatestooge, the local party heads, anyone else you think is worth writing. Tell them what you think Lieberman will do. Personally, I'm fairly certain he will double-cross the Party and will do it in the most public and damaging way. Urge TPTB to take action, do something, anything, to take the wind out of the Lieberwhore's sails. Because if they don't, they'll have egg all over their face the minute he announces.

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Politics - Why Democrats Capitulated

The Rude Pundit, who I really like but who might be a little rude for your tastes, has a very interesting theory on why the Democrats bent over yet again for Bush:


That's right. Apparently the Lieberwhore threatened to switch parties (why would he need to? He's already giving republicans cover for every fuckup and every immoral or criminal act they've commited over the past six years!).

There's an ugly stinking mess of a story hidden behind this one. It sounds as if the Democratic Party, while half-heartedly supporting Ned Lamont, the candidate who won the primary, was secretly negotiating with this sanctimonious cobag Holy Joe, Bush's favorite lapdog. They refused to strip him of his committee assignments, so now he gets to play footsie with the republicans while screwing over the Dems time and time again. Just look at how much his committee has managed to do with Congressional oversight, and compare it to House Rep. Henry Waxman, who's producing an endless stream of results.

I almost want to gloat that they deserve what they got, except that what they got is a bill giving Boy George everything he wanted, including the certain death and dismemberment of who knows how many hundreds of men and women, Iraqi and American alike.

Sickening.

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Political Whore Of The Century

Pictured here getting a little tongue from his BFF

Joe Lieberman. There are whores and whores, and politics doth make whores of us all, but Lieberwhore belongs in his own category. There isn't a lickier lickspittle in all the world, nor yet in all the decades past and present.

Can you believe this shit?

I got yer harrassment right here, Joe. Sanctimonious, priggish buttcrumb. Ten whaps with the Mighty Bat of Clue, foo!

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