’)It’s time we excise backstabbers like this from our midst.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), yesterday on the Bill Press Show: I ve spoken to Joe Lieberman and he knows he s out there alone. I mean, literally alone. Joe is a fine man, he has strong feelings, but he s just alone. Even Republicans don t agree with Joe.
Lieberman’s Iraq Stance Brings Widening Split With His Party
Five years after running as the vice-presidential nominee on the Democratic ticket and a year after his own presidential bid, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut has become an increasingly unwelcome figure within his party, with some Democrats seeing him more as a wayward son than a favorite son.
And further proof that Lieberman just doesn’t get it?
“I know there are a lot of people in the party who disagree with me about the war.”
No, Joe, there are a lot of people in the country who think your view of the war is idiotic.
AGENT LIEBERMAN
LIEBERMAN KNEW he alone was right for the job. It had nothing to do with ego. When he told Hadassah, she cried, but agreed. This could be the kiss of death. There could only be one winner in the
Again, Joe Lieberman is a solid liberal on domestic policy. He may be out there alone on the war issue but that’s not a reason to blast him something fierce. I also tend to think the media is substituting liberal blogger hatred for Lieberman with actual Democratic voters and party leaders. Lieberman is NOT persona non grata in the Democratic Party, even if Daily Kos would lead you to think so.
Maybe Joe L just owns some airline stocks. There’s money to be made there in the freight busness.
http://www.10news.com/news/5504608/detail.html
I think Harry Reid is more represenative of Democrats than liberal bloggers, don’t you?
“Maybe Joe L just owns some airline stocks. There s money to be made there in the freight busness.”
Or maybe many on the left are incapable of dealing with substance in a debate and always resort to ‘disqualifying’ the opposing argument based on perceived (i.e., leftist assumed) motive.
Dugger, Since I am an evil Republican allied with big corporate interests and I say it snows in Buffalo in January, a true progressive would stroll outside in Buffalo in January in his/her bathing suit.
http://www.slate.com/id/2131900/nav/tap1/
Why is it that the media portrays Sen. McCain as a maverick when he goes against his party, but when Sen. Lieberman does so, he does not get portrayed in the same fashion ?