Idiot, Perhaps

Heh, while perusing who voted for or against the supplemental funding bill, I got a kick out of how Joe Lieberman is listed in the role call.

Lieberman (ID-CT)

It's not too much of a stretch of the imagination to see it spells idiot, is it? Of course, at least he did show up to vote unlike war apologists John McCain and Huckleberry Graham.

I'm Joe Lieberman And You're Hearing Me Speak

In this video Joe Lieberman exhorts his colleagues not to move forward on any resolutions that criticize the president's new Iraq plan saying there will be plenty of time for that later if it fails.

Or, to paraphrase Little Orphan Lieberman much more succinctly: Tomorrow. Tomorrow. I love you, tomorrow. You're always a death away.

Joe Lieberman

I took four things away from reading Joe Lieberman's op-ed in today's Washington Post.

1. Joe wants to escalate, escalate, escalate our troop level in Iraq but doesn't seem to know what they will do.

2. Joe is boring. I mean, he is really dull. I always thought that it was his voice that made him seem that way, but he writes pretty dull also.

3. Joe is a gasbag. Succinct is not in his vocabulary. I'm not sure why he thought he needed to shit this 1,109 word whale on to WAPO's editorial page. He could cut the thing in half and still said what he wanted to say, which leads us to number four. I'll sum that one up in just eleven words.

4. Joe has little if any idea what he is talking about.

Bullshit

The Bullshit Moose has taken a job with the Bullshit Senator, should make for a very "serious" team. Perhaps they can put together a "serious" unity ticket in 2008, you know, one that will unify the extremists in both parties by giving them someone to equally hate.

Rumsfeld Resigning

The AP is reporting that Donald Rumsfeld is resigning. I wonder who Bush will offer the job to, perhaps Joe Lieberman. They aren't even going to wait for the paint to dry before pulling off the Conn con. Hope you voters up there are happy.

Update: Nope, it's going to be Bob Gates. Oh well, he couldn't be anybody worse than Rumsfeld.

Bad News For Lieberman?

The Connecticut state republican party is calling voters today telling them that if the vote republican today they will promise to end robo calling. Now, they are doing this to protect some of their congressional races that are in danger, but how many will come home to Alan Schlesinger and therefore not vote for Joe Lieberman because of it? It remains to be seen.

By the way, that is a pretty shallow promise at best.

Bad Headline For Joe

You see, when Joe says "we" must get tougher with the Iraqi government, he means the collective "we," the royal "we" if you will. So, when Joe met with the Iraqi president the next day, he didn't feel the need to get tough with him because Joe never said "I" need to get tough with the Iraqi government. No, Joe is expecting those governmental types who actually show up for votes on issues related to Iraq to do the "getting tough." Joe isn't one of those guys.

It's always that way with Joe. He provides the we could of, should of, would of and expects his colleagues to do the heavy lifting. Actually, on all issues Iraq, Joe sounds more like a pundit, or blogger, or opinion writer than a US Senator. Come November, let's make that so.

Serious

Throughout this campaign season, Joe Lieberman has touted how "serious" he is on foreign policy and the Iraq War. To truly be considered "serious" I think you have to actually have a position, which he now doesn't. From the Journal Inquirer:

Well, a few days ago, our incumbent junior senator, Joe Lieberman, a former candidate for president and vice president of the United States, told reporters that he needed a few more days to formulate, and properly articulate, his position on the war in Iraq. He wouldn't be talking about it with them until then.

Say what?

This man has been in the U.S. Senate for 18 years and he doesn't know what he thinks, or how to express what he thinks, on the war in Iraq?

Like a kid who is flunking an exam because he doesn't know what to write, Lieberman said he needed "more time." He's had 20 years in politics, but give him another week.

Joe, are you serious?

The Great Capitulator

Joe Lieberman has an Op-Ed in today's Hartford Courant in which he proclaims himself "a team player." Really? In baseball, a player such as Lieberman is called something else, a clubhouse cancer.

This paragraph from the piece shows perfectly that Joe doesn't get it. From the Courant:

Like many of you, I am fed up with the partisanship and polarization that is blocking us from addressing the issues that matter most to Connecticut families. And that is precisely why I am continuing my campaign for re-election to the U.S. Senate as an independent Democrat.

Of course nobody likes polarization in politics, but moderation and bipartisanship can only occur when the majority party allows it to occur. Snuggling up to the majority party when it supports a radical agenda is not bipartisanship, it's capitulation.

Joe goes on to write this:

None of these problems can or will be solved by one party in Washington. And no party has a copyright on good ideas. Progress will only happen if we take the best ideas from across the ideological spectrum, follow the example of Team Connecticut in saving the New London sub base and put the interests of our state and nation first.

When exactly was the last time the republican majority ran with any major Democratic initiatives? Not lately, thats for sure. Yet when Lieberman supports the republicans agenda, he does so at the expense of the moderation he seeks by giving the majority party cover.