Crooks and Liars » Joe Lieberman:
By: John Amato @ 5:45 PM – PDT
This man is beyond words. He leads the Congress against Democrats that propose timetables to get out of Iraq and now what does he say?
Duncan can fill you in:
So, when Democrat Ned Lamont says we need to start a timetable for withdrawal, Lieberman says that would be a victory for terrorists. When Democrats in the Senate put that up for a vote, Joe leads off the debate on the side of… the Republicans. But when Republican Chris Shays says we need a timetable then Lieberman says…
Sen. Joe Lieberman, the three-term Democrat whose independent campaign for re-election is being seen as a referendum on the Iraq war, said Friday he would consider taking a look at a fellow lawmaker’s proposal for a time-line for troop withdrawals.
Update: Best comment- Brawlin_Dem: ‘What’s the big deal? He’s just standing up for a fellow Republican.'”

CT-SEN: Lieberman Says Lamont’s Policies Would Be “Tremendous Victory” For Terrorists TPMCafe: “According to the Stamford Advocate, Lieberman said today that Lamont’s policy for an Iraq pullout would be a ‘tremendous victory’ for and would ‘strengthen’ the people who wanted to blow up the planes in the scheme foiled in England:
‘If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England. It will strengthen them and they will strike again.'”

CT-SEN: Lieberman Won’t Say Whether Dems Should Win House TPMCafe: “When they voted to give Bush the authority to go to war, he was still pretending war was a last resort. And none of them, not even Hillary Clinton, has spoken out to support the ‘stay-the-course’ non-strategy. And Lieberman accused Kerry of ‘playing politics with Iraq’ when Kerry called for Rumsfeld’s resignation in April of 2005, after Abu Grahib. And Lieberman was the Republican’s first scheduled speaker when Kerry, Feingold and others tried to get the Senate to do its damn job by conducting some oversight of this Administration.

“Dissent Protects Democracy”

CT-SEN: Lieberman Won’t Say Whether Dems Should Win House TPMCafe: “Dead people aren’t ‘smears’ or ‘lies’ are they?? Doesn’t Lieberman bear some responsibility for those killed in Bush’s bogus war? Is it ‘bitching’ to demand accountability for failed policy and it’s results-lots of dead people?
dead troops
more dead troops
dead Iraqi’s “

Think Progress » Lieberman: ‘This Was Not a Major Realignment Election’: “Lieberman: ‘This Was Not a Major Realignment Election’

On Tuesday, Democrats picked up six seats in the Senate and at least 29 seats in the House, taking control of both chambers for the first time in 12 years. Not a single Democratic incumbent lost. Today on Meet the Press, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said this was “not a major realignment election” and “both major political parties…[are] in a kind of probation.” Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/12/lieberman-no-realignment/

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CT-SEN: Lieberman Won’t Say Whether Dems Should Win House | TPMCafe: “Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, a lifelong Democrat and student of politics, blanked when asked if America would be better off with his party regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

A Democratic victory would immeasurably boost the influence of two Connecticut friends, U.S. Reps. Rosa L. DeLauro and John B. Larson, and provide a counterbalance to the Republican Senate and White House.

‘Uh, I haven’t thought about that enough to give an answer,’ Lieberman said, as though Democrats’ strong prospects for recapturing the House hadn’t been the fall’s top political story.

He was similarly elusive about the race for governor. Is he voting for John DeStefano Jr., a Democrat and mayor of the city where Lieberman has lived since the 1960s?

‘I’m, uh, I’m having,’ he stammered, then laughed and said his decision would remain private….

‘Running as an independent, as you well know, was not my first choice,’ Lieberman said Friday in an interview. ‘I honestly now look at it as a kind of, oh, I don’t know, a blessing.’…

‘I am fighting to change the way things are done in Washington. There is too much partisanship and not enough problem-solving,’ Lieberman said. ‘There’s too much political game-playing and not “

Unclaimed Territory – by Glenn Greenwald: Taking the neocon pulse: “Mark Steyn’s columns are always useful for checking the collective neocon pulse. This week, Steyn can’t figure out why it is that decorated Marine Jack Murtha’s conversion from pro-war-hawk to anti-war crusader got so much attention, while everyone ignored the earth-shattering Op-Ed written by Joe Lieberman, in which Lieberman announced that he used to be for the war . . . . and still is:

Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, came out with a big statement on Iraq last week. Did you hear about it? Probably not. Everyone was still raving about his Democrat colleague, Rep. Jack Murtha, whose carefully nuanced position on Iraq is: We’re all doomed unless we pull out by next Tuesday! (I quote from memory.) . . .

And, while the media were eager to promote Murtha as the most incisively insightful military expert on the planet, this guy Lieberman’s evidently some nobody no one need pay any attention to.

Here’s why. His big piece on Iraq was headlined ‘Our Troops Must Stay.’

On the list of unattractive neocon attributes, the need to perpetually cry about the chronic unfairness to which they are subjected (‘the media is ignoring us!!’) is near the top (right behind their desire to have the U.S. wage eternal war in futile and self-destructive pursuit of conquest of the entire Middle East).

Whatever else one thinks of Jack Murtha’s announcement, it was news. Murtha voted for the war, supported it, has long been one of the closest Congressional allies of the Pentagon, and has been a leading defense hawk on Capitol Hill for many years. The fact that someone like him changed his mind and confessed what he believes is his error about the war is not only news in and of itself, but also”

Crooks and Liars: By: John Amato @ 12:30 PM – PST
Steve:
This has ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’ written all over it. From yesterday’s presidential radio address:
One freedom that defines our way of life is the freedom to choose our leaders at the ballot box. We saw that freedom earlier this week, when millions of Americans went to the polls to cast their votes for a new Congress. Whatever your opinion of the outcome, all Americans can take pride in the example our democracy sets for the world by holding elections even in a time of war.’ (emphasis added)…read on
If he had his way—he’d cancel our elections while tapping our phones— then throw us all in prison for as long as he wants…”

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