There are some people I know that still don’t understand why I hate Joe Lieberman. Hate is not a healthy thing. We should only hate people that are both powerful and despicable. And we should never allow ourselves to be consumed with hate. So, I try to keep my hatred of Joe Lieberman in check. I try to give him a chance. I attempt to see things from his point of view. But it never fails. Lieberman is scum. He is scum of the lowest order.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, the only Democrat to endorse President Bush’s new plan for Iraq, has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.
…Last year, when he was running for re-election in Connecticut, Lieberman was a vocal critic of the administration’s handling of Katrina. He was especially dismayed by its failure to turn over key records that could have shed light on internal White House deliberations about the hurricane, including those involving President Bush.
Asserting that there were “too many important questions that cannot be answered,” Lieberman and other committee Democrats complained in a statement last year that the panel “did not receive information or documents showing what actually was going on in the White House.”
Lieberman isn’t going to do any investigation of Katrina. He isn’t going to compel the White House to turn over documents that would show their criminal indifference to the plight of New Orleans. He isn’t going to do this even though this is precisely what he promised he would do if re-elected.
I used to think that decent people could disagree about the war. But I no longer think that. If you haven’t figured out by now that the war was the wrong decision and must be stopped, you are nothing better than a sociopath. Joe Lieberman is a sociopath. I’m not kidding. He has a criminal indifference to the suffering of other people. If there is such a thing as evil, Joe Lieberman is evil. I don’t even care if he decides to caucus with the Republicans. He belongs with Republicans. Get this:
[Marshall] Whitman [the chief spokesman in Lieberman’s office] says Lieberman is trying to take on the role that Henry (Scoop) Jackson played in the 1960s and 1970s—a tough “national security” Senate Democrat who was willing to cross party lines to work closely with Republican presidents like Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. “That’s the tradition he is following,” Whitman said.
In addition to Richard Perle, neoconservatives Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Charles Horner, and Douglas Feith were former Democratic aides to Jackson who, disillusioned with the Carter administration, supported Ronald Reagan and joined his administration in 1981, later becoming prominent foreign policy makers in the 21st-century Bush administration.
Neoconservative Ben Wattenberg was a prominent political aide to Jackson’s 1972 and 1976 presidential campaigns. Wolfowitz has called himself a “Scoop Jackson Republican” on multiple occasions. Many journalists and scholars across the political spectrum have noted links between Senator Jackson and modern neoconservatism.
Jackson biographer Robert Kaufman says “There is no question in my mind that the people who supported Iraq are supporting Henry Jackson’s instincts.”
Scoop Jackson wasn’t evil but his disciples are drenched in blood. Evil.
No sooner did President Bush finish his speech Wednesday night than Lieberman put out a statement applauding Bush for his “courageous course”—a notable comment, given the lukewarm response the president’s speech received from many leading Republicans.
Evil.
and this surprises you? He is THE MOST despicable politician. Talk about a flip flopper. Joe Schmuck is in politics for one reason and one reason oly, for himself and what he can profit by it whether it be power or money.
I’m not remotely surprised. Just pissed.
Benedict Arnold, assw*pe, murderer by association, fantacist–the names don’t end in my mind.
Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson, as I remember from the Seventies, was a bit more than this piece of slime from Connecticut. Are they happy in Connecticut NOW?
Man, they try so hard to evoke memories of men who at least were men of integrity (Goldwater, Jackson, Dirksen) when push came to shove, and say the cowflop of today are just filling their shoes or doing what they would have done under the circumstances.
This smells so much more than a laissez-faire approach to New Orleans. It smells like a plan to save Bush domestically and his ideas about how he and his oil buddies will take over the city.
Time to protest!
We here in the state of Washington still look back on the era of Scoop Jackson and Warren Magnuson as “the good old days,” when we had some real clout in the Senate.
No one from around here would believe Joe Lieberman is anything like Scoop Jackson. Scoop cared about Washington. Lieberman cares about Lieberman. Scoop may have disagreed with the Democrats, but he was a Democrat. Joe Lieberman is . . . well who knows what Joe Lieberman is.
He’s a sociopath.
OK, besides the obvious.
I imagine there are some pretty good scandals to be dug on him. Remember his campaign was the model for keeping all the war hawks in office. Namely lying about his views and his record. Furthermore, we can no longer be under the illusion that the establishment dems will support us just because we win a primary.
Politically, Democrats in Connecticut should stop fretting over that putrid boil on their backside and start treating the cause. Local Democrats should start working to build a State Legislature to will revise the Connecticut election law to prohibit anyone who seeks their party nomination and fails to win it from running again under a different political label in the general election. Connecticut is one the last states that does not have this prohibition in place. It is too late to waste time speculating on the meaning of Lieberman’s statements or actions. That horse is out of the barn. Connecticut Democrats will get a lot of resistance from local Republicans and Lieberman’s people when the Democrats begin to organize around this legislation, but this is where the first step in the fight must begin. Once this legislation becomes law, Lieberman will be history as far as the Democratic party is concerned.
Never let it be said that Boo-Man goes over the top. I still think Boo-Man has Lieberman envy. He just can’t stand the fact that the only person who is evil around here, is himself. I hope Lieberman continues to screw you over since the Democrats screwed him over in the primary. Lieberman is laughing all the way to his next term in offce, while the only thing you can do is sit back and bitch from the shadows. Absolutely pathetic!!!!
How about he keep a campaign promise?
I hoping that his worthy colleagues take note and remember these actions.
I think the problem with Joe is he has no loyalty to the Democratic Party and its principles. But the bottom line human issue is his lack of loyalty, which in essence makes him untrustworthy and despicable.
Don’t blame me, I volunteered for Lamont.
I try to give him a chance. I attempt to see things from his point of view. But it never fails. Lieberman is scum. He is scum of the lowest order.
Yeah. Sometimes you have to give up on that “give him another chance” nonsense and face facts.