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Don't Criticize Escalation, Lieberman Begs
During Gen. David Petraeus' hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) took time out to "make a plea to [his] colleagues in the Senate" to "put the brakes" on the gathering bipartisan momentum for a nonbinding resolution condemning the president's plan to increase troops in Iraq.
The Senate should "step back for a moment and give you [Gen. Petraeus] a chance…. Perhaps a last chance, to succeeed in Iraq," Lieberman said. "If God forbid, you are unable to succeed, then there will be plenty of time for the resolutions of disapproval or the other alternatives that have been contemplated."





Dear Joe,
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
Cordially,
Rich
January 23, 2007 12:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
So, how many campaign promises has Lieberman broken so far?
When Joe accused Lamont of being a terrorist sympathizer for talking about a plan to pull out of Iraq, and when he lied about Lamont's campaign bringing down his website it should have been as obvious as Lieberman's jowls that he is a slime-ball...
I am asking Connecticut voters - Why did you elect this scum, and is there any way you can recall him?
January 23, 2007 12:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's not the CT. voters who are at fault (remember Joe won principally because Republicans voted for him). The real fault lies with the Dem establishment who basically abandoned Lamont worried that if Lamont didn't win, Lieberman would cut and run. This was a winnable race for Lamont (granted, he made some mistakes as well), but Schumer, Hilary, the DSCC and all of them got what they deserved by not supporting Lamont in the general election.
January 23, 2007 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Re: Schumer, Hilary, the DSCC and all of them got what they deserved by not supporting Lamont in the general election.
Not true. They did support Lamont in the general election. Not especially vigorously, to be sure, but they did support the Democratic candidate in the general.
January 23, 2007 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think Lieberman won simply because the primary voters were not representative of the people who voted in the general election.
January 23, 2007 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
How pathetic Lieberman has become. How many last chances does he want the Bush League to have?
January 23, 2007 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Joe Lieberman (I-CL "via con dias",adios,shalome.
January 23, 2007 12:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
How long will it take for JoeL to understand that nothing we do will change what's happening in Iraq (except adding more targets for them to shoot at)? He's so out of it...
January 23, 2007 1:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sen. Lieberman, they had their "last chance." They've had far more "last chances" than they deserve, and when this one doesn't succeed, they'll tinker and call it another "new strategy" and you'll demand that we give that/i> a chance. They ignored all advice other than yes-men, and you'd have to be a blind idiot to think that's going to produce good results.
There isn't "plenty of time" for our fighting men and women; there isn't "plenty of time" for an administration that makes our position in the Middle East and the world day by day. Put your family members in Iraq, and maybe you'd have a shred of credibility as you ask others to risk "plenty of time" there.
January 23, 2007 1:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lieberman: "Please let us drag this out at least until we're deep into the 2008 election cycle, so John and I can say, 'Hey, look, you agreed to keep the troops there,' and we can present our plan for victory if elected, because, frankly, our domestic agenda is non-existent and Iraq is all we've got."
January 23, 2007 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the issue is: How long will it take for Lieberman to switch parties? My guess is when the Democrats rightly try to stop Bush from invading Iran.
January 23, 2007 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
The man has become a total joke. That wasn't a question, it was a boot licking joke. 3000 + American's killed, many thousands more maimed, unknown numbers of Iraquis killed. The people of Conn. should be ashamed. How did Kerry chose this idiot anyway? It should have been Edwards!
January 23, 2007 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
"(I-CT)" isn't really appropriate since there is an Independent Party in CT who didn't nominate Lieberman.
Of course he might not be the CfL nominee again since he lost control of "his" party when John Orman took the initiative to actually set up a real party, something that had apparently been too much work for Joe.
January 23, 2007 1:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lou Matrazzo, Kerry did pick Edwards. It was Gore who picked Lieberman for veep back in 2000.
January 23, 2007 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
this is funny. joe is funny. he is suffering from some serious memory loss and delusion, but his constituents can clear that up by recalling him if they want.
beyond that, just let him talk. he makes a fool of himself every day now. thanks joe
January 23, 2007 1:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I saw this jowly asshole this morning and I nearly wanted to throw my TV out the window.
Instead of critical remarks about this administration and the "New" surge, he spent most of his time criticizing fellow Senators and Congressmen who have come out against the latest "Bush strategy" to win the war.
What a lying Bush bitch!!!
January 23, 2007 1:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Will Joe slip the boy king some tongue at tonight's SOTU? You know give his boy a little boost.
My security code was "stiff" kind of appropriate for LIEberman.
January 23, 2007 1:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Two words stand out in these comments: RECALL and IRAN. Sadly, I am afraid it is too late to do anything about Iran as the plans are underway and the 'surge' is a diversionary tactic. While we are planning peace marches and opposing the 'surge' there will be an 'incident' with the number one member of the 'axis of evil' that will require us to defend ourselves. At least Holy Joe didn't ask us to 'shut up for six or nine months' as did Bill Kristol. I agree that the Connecticutt Senator will soon change parties; he was always a Repug.
January 23, 2007 1:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny: the Google ad that showed up right beneath the video when I watched it was headlined "High Blood Pressure." That's what I get every time I lay eyes on that son of a b...
What Bob Kerrey said about Bill Clinton holds far more true for the senator from Connecticut: Joe Lieberman -- <spit& gt; -- is an unusually good liar.
January 23, 2007 1:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
The point is that whatever this administration does stems from politics and not policy. The surge itself is motivated by politics. It will probably be infused with politics. Bush cannot be trusted to do anything correctly.
January 23, 2007 1:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Really! Can't the voters of Connecticut put a recall on the next ballot - LIEberman "misrepresented" himself to the electorate. Dispicable!
January 23, 2007 1:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you think Joe will literally kiss his man tonight?
January 23, 2007 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -
-- Theodore Roosevelt
January 23, 2007 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
He sounds like he's trying to ask Petraeus on a date.
January 23, 2007 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's not forget that this piece of trash also has decided not to investigate the government response to Katrina (after pledging to do so in order to win the election).
He is also tried to kill the investigation into Enron (threatening to cut funding to the investigators if they continued the investigation) - and he still had the balls to run for president after knowing his role in the Enron scandal. This man is scum!
January 23, 2007 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
A while back I Googled...Connecticutt Newspapers and read what few 'Letters to the Editor' I could find about Joe Lieberman.....it was not pretty!!!
As I was reading them I got the feeling that it may just be a possiblility he will be recalled.
I tried to post a letter, but it would not let me, out of state letters were not accepted. Would have loved to tell the people of Conn. we were behind them if only they would start a recall. Hell, I would even donate some money to the cause....
January 23, 2007 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good to know Joe is down with us giving this failed venture only one more "last chance." Sure, why not? What does HE have to lose? How many men and women have to die for Joe's "last chance"? What about that Katrina investigation, Joe?
I think the Dems would be better off if they just cut Lieberman loose and took away his committee power; afterall, he's an independent and not part of the majority. If the Dems need ONE MORE VOTE on an issue they can always round up at least one GOPer willing to play ball, especially since the public has roundly endorsed their agenda.
I'm sure David Brooks will write an obtuse column defending Joe against the mean liberals.
January 23, 2007 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why isn't this session more interactive? Why does the camera even go to the General, (who moves so little it's a relief to see the occasional blink, restoring one's belief that the General is still alive)?
Actually I am mesmerized by the General's trance-like stare and hope that it is not a JoeL spell but some insect that has lighted on the senator's forehead.
Joe speaks like he has the admiration and respect of his colleagues, colleagues he hopes are paying as close attention to him as the General...but as I say, the General's stare may mean something else.
January 23, 2007 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would love to state my opinion about Joe Lieberman, but I'm guessing the word "twat" is not allowed on this board.
January 23, 2007 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
There should never have been an Iraq war. That's period!
January 23, 2007 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lieberman was saying in the general that "Nobody wants to bring the troops home more than I do" and also made comments to the effect that he thought we'd be able to start drawing down in the near future. Unfortunately enough CT voters took him at his word. Lieberman knew he couldn't pull his escalation schtick in this state and get re-elected. I guess the people that voted for him should have known better; Lamont was running ads with the very clear message that "A vote for Lieberman means more war". But even here in CT it's hard to get an incumbent out when he's allowed to lie his way to office and then not be held accountable for his words (thanks a lot, Hartford Courant).
January 23, 2007 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Legalize wrote:
"I think the Dems would be better off if they just cut Lieberman loose and took away his committee power; afterall, he's an independent and not part of the majority. If the Dems need ONE MORE VOTE on an issue they can always round up at least one GOPer willing to play ball, especially since the public has roundly endorsed their agenda."
As soon as that happened, Joe would caucus with the Republicans, which would throw the Senate to them. Joe has the Dems over a barrel, and he's acting that way. The worst kind of hardball politics.
January 23, 2007 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
As someone who has lived most of his life in Connecticut (in fact, near by Joe), I apologize profusely.
In my defense, I wasn't living there in 2006, and in 2000 the only alternative was Phil Giordano, who was a Republican child molester.
January 23, 2007 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
"...then there will be plenty of time for the resolutions of disapproval..."
Not for several hundred soldiers and perhaps tens of thousands of Iraqis, there won't.
January 23, 2007 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Joe's just trying to get his licks in while he can. He's well aware that, come 2008, the Senate will be even more firmly in Dem control, and when you look up "irrelevant" in the dictionary, Lieberman's picture will be there.
January 23, 2007 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm no consitutional scholar, but apparently Article I of the US Constitution states that only the US Senate can remove a senator. CT voters had their shot to get rid of him on one day in Nov 2006, and now we are all stuck with him for 6 years.
January 23, 2007 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
As long as the election in 2008 keeps looming, the relevance of Joe L will be short-lived in less than 2 years. I don't know the legalities behind a recall in CT, but I have to believe that it takes time to do this. Once the Democrats take a larger chunk of the majority in the Senate (and the longer this "war" goes on, the more of a certainty that will be) in 2009, his relevance will be gone. It is tragic that more Americans are going to have to die for this, but unless more people become outraged, this horrible outcome is not going to change.
January 23, 2007 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bill Clinton is to blame for Lieberman winning. Lamont's campaign said that Clinton's Larry King appearance where he said it was a win-win for Democrats in CT whether the actual Democratic candidate won or whether Lieberman won was the single most damaging thing that happened. It was the signal to the money people and DC operatives that they would face no retribution for helping Lieberman.
Lets get rid of the Clinton's. Jeff Cohen's 2000 column is as relevant today:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/040900-104.htm
Dems held 57 Senate seats when Bill Clinton took office and a 258-176 majority in the House. The Clintons destroyed the Democratic Party. The Party is on the way back; lets end this Clinton cancer like killing a snake with a stone!
January 23, 2007 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
WAIT!! WAIT!! Maybe you just need to keep repeating the word "Bipartisan" to Joe Lieberman and he'll snap out of his partisan, extremist support for a troop escalation!!
Doesn't he deserve one, last, chance?
No? Yeah, you're probably right.
January 23, 2007 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Somebody has to break the addictive cycle. Joe Bleederman is not up to the task, preferring to enable the hemopetroliac.
January 23, 2007 4:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Didn't Lieberman want to end the era of "partisan polarizing politics" (or whatever)???
January 23, 2007 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pathetic.
January 23, 2007 4:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Once, just once, for God's sake, Joe, can't you speak for America?
Must your every utterance support those neocons whose first interest is the welfare and expansionist aims of the State of Israel?
I am NOT anti-Semitic... I support Israel's right to exist IN PEACE, but I am damn sure for America's interests FIRST and believe that American BLOOD should be shed only in the interest of our own nation.
In retrospect, even as a staunch Democrat, I am glad now that you were NOT given the opportunity to be the Vice-President of this country...given the ethics of those you are beholden to, it is probable some 'accident' would have befallen
Gore had he been inaugarated in 2001.
January 23, 2007 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a pathetic little suckup Lieberman is. “Please fellow senators wait until everything is so totally f*cked up that the world is in danger of another world war to disagree with President Bush. I kinda like him ‘cause he kissed me once.”
January 23, 2007 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Everything has it's price Joe L. So how many dead soldiers is this "new way forward" worth. Someone just answer me that. How many flag drapped coffins is this last chance at victory worth? Then when the cost is tallied will the final price tag be worth what we may get out of it. A stable shia majority, Iranian satelite. I'm sorry but that seems to be the new definition of victory. So to obtain even that much someone tell me how many dead American Soldiers is that effort worth.
January 23, 2007 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who's the hot, bored-looking chick behind Lieberman? I think I could show her a better time than listening to Sen. Droopy Dawg !
January 23, 2007 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Senator Lieberman, Sir: It has been nearly 4 years and countless (literally) deaths - there has been "plenty of time" for there to have been "success in Iraq". If the cricicism had taken place alot sooner, perhaps there could even have been a chance for "success in Iraq" but I doubt it.
January 23, 2007 6:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
As a Rebublican i feel it necessary to say that
Mr. Lieberman is not welcome in our party.
That goes for most of the currrent members of the GOP as they are imitation Republicans. True GOP
members are disgusted with the methods of Mr. Rove
and his ilk. Men and women such as Mr. DeLay and
Ms. Coulter are not and have never been GOP.
Rather they are extremist scum that highjacked the
Party of Mr. Lincoln and made it the criminal gang
that choose Mr. Bush as its figurehead while Mr. Cheney and his thieves looted the US Treasury.
As i recall only Mr. Kennedy has stated that the
war in Iraq was started to loot our Treasury.
He is correct and this should be stated as clearly as possible to inform the idiots that now
consider this conflict to be about terrorism.
January 23, 2007 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Re: Clinton's Larry King appearance
Really? You mean people still watch Larry King?
January 23, 2007 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Perhaps a last chance"--meaning that Lieberman *still* won't draw the line.
Whore.
January 23, 2007 6:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Throw this scumbag out of the party. He is a sick, sick man. He's going to vote with the Repugs anyway. This is all about Iran. Buying time for Cheney to invade and REALLY blow up the entire Mid-east. Saving a (essentially illusory) one vote majority in the Senate by placating this fascist, or saving the world from the hell that follows an attack on Iran - what is really more important? Time to end politics as usual. Dump this addled gasbag and dump Cheney, before its too late. (BTW, Petraeus looked like he was comtemplating a bayonet charge, didn't he?)
January 23, 2007 7:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Karen is so right about the Clintonization/destruction of the Democratic party,and our losses in congress. It's pathetic how much potential for the country was squandered because of Bill's inability to
keep his zipper up.
We can also thank HIll & Bill each for the parts they played in Joe LIEberman's win in CT. They did NOTHING!!!Seems if you dump on Bill as Joe and Poppy Bush did, he follows you around like a puppy.Now we have the prospect of Hill and Bill again in the W House---arg, what a dreadful thought!!
Can't you just see Holy Joe switch back to being a "loyal Dem" if Hillary wins the WH?
January 23, 2007 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
And the surviving family members of the fallen among the "augmentation" can sue Lieberman for reckless endangerment...
January 23, 2007 7:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
How presumptious can this prize Bush lackey Lieberman be? I'am sure all the senators who are against the "surge" were insulted by his remarks..With each passing day, his being kicked out of the CT dem party becomes more and more justified. Now if the CT voters can just recall this Israeli shill....,
January 23, 2007 11:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
What I want to know is when Lieberman is going to call for Americans to sacrifice for his and Bush's war, other than those in the military. Has anyone from the Lieberman family volunteered to go fight in this war? Has he called for tax increases to pay for this war? Has he asked anyone to sacrifice for this war other than the military? This is a man who has never, to my knowledge, served in the military who is very cavalier with the lives of other people's loved ones.
January 24, 2007 12:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
He makes me sick!
January 24, 2007 1:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Mr. Lieberman is proof that the Stepford Wives do inhabit that perfect community in Connecticut, and that some of their sons become U.S. Senators. Mr. Lieberman, ever wanting to be at the center of things rather than the political center, has become an automoton for Mr. McCain. Perhaps that's the price for another bid at the Vice Presidency. Joe, we hardly knew ya.
January 24, 2007 2:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
This war is so critical that his fighting age son is noway in hell going to enlist. I think Lieberman is more concerned with Israel than he is with Americans.
January 24, 2007 2:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
As a USN 4 year veteran I believe Joe Lieberman is more interested in pleasing his Zionest friends and manipulating events to the benifit of Isreal. What a Schmuck! Hey Joe! How 'bout working for the US for a change. It is our sons and daughters in Iraq who are dying in a war that should never have been waged.
And..... please stop calling yourself a Democrat.
January 24, 2007 7:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Joe Lieberman is a pathetic opportunist. I can't even begin to count how many times I've seen him squeeze that bobble-head of his into a camera shot so that we could see him schmoozing with the likes of Rumsfeld, and other righties, on the evening news. I wonder what kind of lies he told the Gore people in 2000? Surely the person he is now is not the person he pretended to be in 2000. He lied to the voters, and he lies to himself every time he calls himself an Independent or a Democrat. Joey should come out of the closet and show us all the neocon he really is! I hope the angry voters of Connecticut can find a way to shut down his pathetic show of smoke, mirrors and lies. Please, get the spotlight off this guy.
February 8, 2007 12:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
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April 25, 2007 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
CT people need to wake up and recall or impeach Joe Lie Ber Man. He has lied to CT people by saying he will always be a Democrat.
December 16, 2007 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink