BREAKING NEWS: LIEBERMAN JUMPS SHIP

George Bush's and Ann Coulter's favorite Democrat, Joe Lieberman, pulled his finger out of his ass and held it up to the wind-- with the help of the most expensive polling firms corporate dollars can buy-- and realized he has virtually no chance to win the Democratic primary August 8th against an actual Democrat, Ned Lamont. Lieberman has been assiduously serving the reactionary Republican agenda for years and is cognizant that his only chance to retain his seat is if Republicans can vote for him. He has therefore just announced that he will be requesting petitions from the Connecticut Secretary of State so that he can run as an "independent" in November. Now let's see if Chuck Schumer decides to wreck the Democratic Party. Schumer has said he will support Lieberman if he bolts the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, many Republicans have endorsed Lieberman, including Congressman Christopher Shays, who, like Lieberman, is a weak rubber stamp for Bush's catastrophic policies in the Middle East.

Updates throughout the day, a day that is probably as good a time as any to send Lieberman and Schumer a message that Democrats like primaries where we pick our candidates. Here's an effective way of doing it!


UPDATE #1

"I have loyalties that are greater than those to my party."
-Lieberman, explaining why he's running as an independent and referring to the Republicans' whose interests he has so consistently served while he made believe he was a Democrat in the Senate.


UPDATE #2: AIR AMERICA

I just heard Sam Seder interviewing Tom Swann, Ned's campaign manager. One of them brought up the fact-- something I had nearly forgotten-- that when Lieberman ran for Vice-President, instead of giving up his Senate seat so a Democrat could be elected, he chose to run for senator and vice-president simultaneously, which would have meant that had Bush not stolen the election in 2000, the Republican governor of Connecticut (who hadn't been caught stealing and forced to resign by then) would have been able to appoint a Republican senator that we could have been stuck with for many years. That's Lieberman: never loyal, always out for himself, always the big hypocrite who doesn't give a damn about Connecticut.


UPDATE #3: HILLARY CLINTON BREAKS WITH LIEBERMAN AND SCHUMER

Jane, who has taken up residence in Connecticut, is hearing that "Hillary Clinton believes that it's important to respect the will of Connecticut voters and that she will commit to support the Democratic candidate-- whoever that is-- in November." Lieberwhore says he conferred with Schumer and Reid before he made his treacherous move today. Schumer says he's sticking with Lieberman, even if it means sticking it to Connecticut Democrats. No word from Reid yet.


TUESDAY UPDATE: HILLARY MAKES IT OFFICIAL-- SHE'LL SUPPORT LAMONT IF HE WINS THE PRIMARY

Finally Hillary Clinton seems to be getting some decent advice. She announced today-- in a move that will give cover to other people who take the Democratic Party seriously-- that she will support whomever wins the August 8th primary. Let's hope Chris Dodd, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama wake up. It's too late for Schumer. He's one the pod-people. Hillary's statement:

"I've known Joe Lieberman for more than thirty years. I have been pleased to support him in his campaign for re-election, and hope that he is our party's nominee.

But I want to be clear that I will support the nominee chosen by Connecticut Democrats in their primary. I believe in the Democratic Party; and I believe we must honor the decisions made by Democratic primary voters. The challenges before us in 2006 call for a strong, united party, in which we all support and work for the candidates who are selected in the Democratic process."