CAN YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU FIRST REALIZED WHAT LIEBERMAN WAS?

If you're wondering how Holy Joe Lieberman will try to outdo Zell Miller in his treachery towards Democrats when he shills for his BBF John McCain at the Republican National Convention this summer, you can see a preview of his speech in today's Wall Street Journal. There's nothing new here, just the same old GOP talking points Lieberman has been spouting since he first fell in love with Bush's Neocon foreign policy. Basically, McCain is counting on Lieberman as an anti-Obama attack dog who will paint the Democratic Party as a force for appeasement and weak on foreign policy.

One has to wonder, though, how strong the Senate Democratic leadership is, if they are willing to put up with Lieberman. Well, don't fret. I have it on good authority that they are eager to loss him out of the caucus as soon as the new Senate is seated in January. Lieberman is hoping, bizarrely and increasingly unrealistically, for a McCain victory and a cabinet position.

It's funny-- reactionary Blue Dog Leonard Boswell (IA) is attacking his progressive opponent Ed Fallon for abandoning the Democratic Party in 2000 because he voted for Ralph Nader. Forget for a moment that Boswell's voting record shows that he abandons the Democratic Party systematically every day to rubber stamp the worst of the Bush-Cheney agenda. I've only written one letter to the L.A. Times in my life-- and it was published. In it I explained why I had decided I could not vote for Al Gore for president. My reason was exactly the same as Ed Fallon's: Joe Lieberman. And this is long before the Iraq War was more than a glimmer in the eyes of the Neocon warmongers! Since then, Lieberman has gotten exponentially worse and worse as he builds to the ultimate disgrace of the speech he is planning for Minneapolis.

It will be with great joy to watch Democratic senators do what Ed Fallon and I have done long ago and what Connecticult Democrats did in 2006. It's a shame the Democrats still lend Lieberman credibility with lies like how he's such a wonderful Democrat on everything but Iraq. That's always been false. Lieberman has a miserable voting record across the board. He votes with the GOP on substantive matters more than any Democrats other than arch-reactionary Ben Nelson (NE) and two Dixiecrats, Mary Landrieu (LA) and Mark Pryor (AR). Particularly when it comes to advancing Bush's worst choices for lifetime appointments to the judiciary, Lieberman is always working hard to make sure they win confirmation. The Republicans are likely to lose as many as a dozen seats in the U.S. Senate in November but they can count on picking up one in January, when Holy Joe Lieberman crosses the aisle to sit, permanently, with the custodians of every idea and value loathed by his professed heroes, trading in FDR, Harry Truman and JFK for someone only as deceptive and manipulative as Lieberman would compare to the liked of John McCain, Lindsey Graham and James Inhofe.

Anyway, in honor of Holy Joe's jihad against America, how about a reprise of an old Flamingos classic?



UPDATE: AT LEAST OBAMA HAS STOPPED GIVING LIEBERMAN A FREE RIDE!

Obama Communications Director Robert Gibbs:

I have to admit, I haven't read the whole piece because what dawned on me about two paragraphs into the piece is that Joe Lieberman would be a fabulous secretary of state for John McCain for one reason and one reason only. What Joe Lieberman proposes and what John McCain proposes is another four years of George Bush's foreign policy. We talked about how concerned we are and rightly so about Iran but what we have done is strengthen Iran by invading Iraq in a horrible, misguided war that Joe Lieberman signed off on, that John McCain signed off on, and that George Bush was happy to wage. That’s not kind of foreign policy we need, it’s not what’s going to make us safer.

Every Democrat in the Senate should sign off on that, especially serial Lieberman-backers like Pryor, Nelson, and Landrieu.