Apparently, being "Holy Joe" Lieberman means you can say any fool thing you feel like, anytime, and it doesn't matter that it's all on videotape

Nobody likes an "I told you so"-er, but at a time when truth is at a premium, and memory all but forgotten, three cheers to Ned Lamont for pointing out one obvious problem with His Holiness Sen. Joe Lieberman's endorsement of conservative Republican John McCain for president, in this statement he issued today:

During our debate last year, Senator Lieberman intoned that he wanted to “elect a Democratic President in 2008,” and that my election would “frustrate and defeat our hope of doing that.” With his endorsement of John McCain today, it is now clear that Joe Lieberman is the one working to defeat our hopes.

Last year, Senator Lieberman pleaded with voters to consider his full throated support for the invasion of Iraq as merely a “single issue” in the context of an otherwise progressive agenda. His endorsement of Senator McCain reminds us that the war in Iraq is actually Lieberman’s predominant issue, trumping all else--or maybe he is looking forward to joining Sen. McCain in a duet rendition of “Bomb, Bomb, Iran.”

A McCain presidency would make privatizing social security more likely, investing in our middle class less likely, and tipping the balance of the Supreme Court for decades a near-certainty. The court is one vote away from overturning Roe v. Wade and further expanding the power of the Presidency at the expense of our civil liberties and constitutional freedoms. It is ironic that Lieberman’s fellow Connecticut senator, Chris Dodd, is today courageously leading the congressional charge against illegal wiretaps, not to mention bringing America’s combat role in the Bush-McCain-Lieberman war to an end.

With voters just weeks away from making their first decisions, Democrats are lucky to have many extraordinary candidates running for President. I am disappointed that Senator Lieberman does not feel the same way.

Frankly, Ned, we couldn't have said it better ourselves. And to think, if Holy Joe hadn't spent the whole Senate campaign lying his head off, this voice of sanity would be speaking to us from the U.S. Senate. What a change from the war-mongering right-wing pandering and lies we hear instead from the thug who has truly earned the monker Shame of the Nutmeg State.

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