DISQUS

Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago

my answer is NO also.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

I wish the date of each video was flashed up on each video.

Butch1 · 1 year ago

He's quite talented talking from both sides of his mouth. You caught that the Democrats abandoned him so he had to run as an Independent and was supported by the republicans. This was all "pay-back" to the democrats who he claims mistreated him. What an ass. The dems are on notice, if they don't grow a spine had give this traitor the bum's rush, they will regret it. He's nothing but trouble.

boloboffin · 1 year ago

I think we're overreacting here. Try picturing a cocktail weenie on a toothpick in his hand there. Doesn't that smooth over all those differences we might have with him?

cab02149 · 1 year ago

But the senate is an exclusive club with their own rules. They are not part of our government as much as you think they are. If they want Joe in, he gets everything he wants. If they don't he goes to the other side and sits out the rest of his term. Wouldn't you like his retirement pay and healthcare benefits? Did you fall off the back of a turnip truck? The senate is a perversion of what the founders intended. It is a mishapen organization of wealthy assholes.
Forget Joe. Just hope Obama doesn't swallow the bit and go nuts. He is very capable of that. President is a tough job. He won't get his way.

naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago

The Ds denied him the Senate seat? How about the people of Connecticut?

Deacon_Blues · 1 year ago

Joe Lieberman is not a Democrat. He lost the privilege of calling himself that when he ran on the "Joe Lieberman Vanity Party Ticket" or whatever he calls himself. He may caucus with the Dems, but he is not one. He deserves NOTHING. I put my hard-earned cash into Barack Obama's campaign, but not to support this weasel, and if he is allowed to continue as he has, I'll be putting more of my hard-earned cash into taking out those who support him, starting with Harry Reid.

dommyluc · 1 year ago

I am so livid at the thought of that slimy mother-fucker Lieberman getting off scot-free that I wrote this to Harry Reid:

"I have been a loyal Democrat since I first voted in the midterm elections of 1974 when I turned 18 and lived in the city of Chicago. Being raised in Chicago, I live, eat and breathe politics. I busted my ass to try to get Barack Obama and the Democratic Congressional majority elected. And how am I and millions like me being repaid for our efforts? We are being told that the Senate is seriously considering letting that traitorous, slandering, McCain/Palin loving non-Democrat Joe Lieberman keep his chairmanship at Homeland Security. Do not tell me that Lieberman has not done any harm. He basically called Obama and progressive Dems terrorists for not agreeing with him, McCain and the Republicans. He needs to be PUNISHED! Obama did NOT say that he should keep his chairmanship, only that he should be allowed to caucus with the Dems. Give him a chair with some other committee, but do NOT give him the power to subpoena the Executive Branch, because Joe cannot be trusted as far as you can spit, and he will do great harm to the Obama presidency and the Democratic Party. A great majority of Dems are truly infuriated by the very thought of Lieberman going unpunished. Get rid of him, and if you are worried about Republican filibusters, then either eliminate the filibuster or force the Republicans to filibuster the old -fashioned way: in full view of the public, so the American people can see them trying to block much needed and popular legislation. JOE MUST GO! He is a traitor to the Democratic Party. Grow a spine, Senator Reid, or give your leadership position to someone else. Lieberman is no friend to the Dems, and he deserves to be kicked out as soon as possible. Let Mitch McConnell have him!"

I only hope everyone else does the same by writing their Dems Senators. It took nearly every fiber of my progressive Democratic being to keep the words "fuck", "prick", "dildo" and "douchenozzle" out of my letter, but next time I may not be able to.

houstonray · 1 year ago

NICELY done!! I sent a similar comment to him as well...

ckerst · 1 year ago

I sent one a few days ago. I'm starting to think nothing will happen until Reid and Pelosi are booted along with holy joe.

dommyluc · 1 year ago

Thank you! I hope they fry that SOB!!!

dad · 1 year ago

PLEASE. no joe.

the turd is not a Democrat.

bayareadem · 1 year ago

Does anyone have the capability to have this made in to a DVD and hand-deliver them to each senator's offices? I would chip in on paying for it...

pegger · 1 year ago

Please remember that if Joe is expelled from the party and you end up with 59 Senators, what will your reaction be? I think Reid is holding out til the results are in from GA, MN, AK. before he does anything.

dad · 1 year ago

we keep joe we end the same.

he is not a Democrat. he has done everything he could to undermine Democrats.

there is an "i" in independent. there is and "i" in lieberman.
he doesn't like the team - trade him.
he'll never be elected again as a republican.

dad · 1 year ago

i guess trade him isn't accurate.
s.b. make him a free agent. he assumes that right already.

ThingsComeUndone · 1 year ago

Can you get this on KO or Rachel's show? Please!

terjeanderson · 1 year ago

There's been a lot of focus on Lieberman's comments against Obama and campaigning for McCain as the reason for the caucus to act... but I actually think there is an even more compelling reason.

Joe Lieberman endorsed and actively campaigned for/with a number of Republican Senators running for re-election this year: Norm Coleman, Susan Collins, and Lindsey Graham -- perhaps other Republican Senate candidates I am unaware of.

How can the Democratic caucus grant him a chairmanship (that only exists because the Dems have a majority in the Senate), when Lieberman was out on the campaign trail working against a Democratic Senate majority?

I think it is outrageous and unacceptable that he was campaigning for the Republican presidential nominee, speaking at the Republican convention, and attacking the Democratic nominee (a Senate Democratic caucus colleague of his) -- but if I were a Democratic Senator, I would be especially angry that he was out on the campaign trail trying to put the Democrats in the Senate minority.

If I were one of the Democrats up for re-election in 2010 (Bayh, Boxer, Dodd, Dorgan, Feingold, Inoyue, Leahy, Lincoln, Mikulski, Murray, Reid, Salazar, Schumer, Wyden and Obama and Biden's replacements) I'd be seriously worried that Lieberman could end up out on the campaign trail using his Chairmanship to scare voters and tell them I was bad for national security. And if I were Schumer or Reid or Clinton or another Senator concerned about the future of the Democratic majority I'd expect to see turncoat Joe out there campaigning for any one of a number of Republican buddies of his (Kit Bond? Richard Burr? Jim DeMint? Judd Gregg? Mel Martinez? John McCain? George Voinovich? David Vitter? or any other Republican seat we might target).

If Joe Lieberman wants to continue to caucus with the majority party in the US Senate, that's fine, let him -- but he should be denied the benefit of positions related to that majority status. He has proven that he can't be trusted -- not just to support the Democratic presidential nominee, but also untrustworthy in terms of his Senate Democratic colleagues.

dad · 1 year ago

said well

not to mention he's tried to undermine "that majority status."

dad · 1 year ago

which you also said, well.

falloch · 1 year ago

I want Lie-man out, have written to as many congress-critters as I can figure out to write to - but I really would like to know, how does he do it? has anyone had an interview with Liebermann where he maps out his disloyalty and justifies it? Just curious if someone at his stage of power could forward a positive argument for political schizophrenia, and thus explain what went on the US for the past 8, 10, 12 years. I cannot understand how, even now, post-Bush, that Lieberman and collegues cling to the wreckage, and by doing so, doom all of us, unless we pry their cold dead hands from the Constitution.

4dogs · 1 year ago

My husband is an Independent. He didn't want to give money to the Independent Party because he hated Lieberman. My husband was told that the Independent Party didn't actually put him up. He just took the name. He wasn't actually part of the Independence Party. Talk about not being a team player on any team. Lieberman is a self serving dangerous man. He absolutely can't be trusted and shouldn't hold any chairmanships after all he did against the Democrats. I'm furious that Reid isn't kicking him out. This is a self serving pr--ck. Get rid of him.

CostitutionalCommando · 1 year ago

Let Joe LIEberman be in his own party the Connecticut for Lieberman.His Party of one. The Republics don't trust him and the Democrats shouldn't. Fitting deserts.

eaprez · 1 year ago

I want Joe run out of town.....that being said, I'm gonna trust Obama on this one. How come his home state can't start a recall movement and get rid of him and get another body in his place?