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« on: January 16, 2007, 05:44:21 PM »

She supported Lieberman in both his primary and his general election.
Lieberman dropped his investigation into Bush's failure on Katrina.
Joe just killed Mary's chances in 2008.

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« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2007, 07:06:50 PM »

The ending of the Landrieu's influence over Louisiana politics would be a good thing I think.
I'd rather her seat go to another Democrat though.
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« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2007, 07:11:04 PM »

The ending of the Landrieu's influence over Louisiana politics would be a good thing I think.
I'd rather her seat go to another Democrat though.

Which other Democrat? I think this seat will go Republican now that New Orleans has been sufficiently de-blacked.
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« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2007, 07:16:03 PM »

C'mon, jfern, you didn't really expect Holy Joe to investigate all those Republicans after they so generously donated to his reelection campaign did you? Yes, Lieberman is slime, but this is hardly surprising. Don't ever trust anything a politician says when he/she is up for reelection that year, especially when the pol's name is Joe Lieberman.
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« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2007, 08:36:49 PM »

Can the Senate Homeland Security Committee not censure its Chairman over his decision?

I'm disgusted Angry with Lieberman on this one considering all the criticism he levelled at Susan Collins back then and what he's saying now

This is not so much an abandoning of a "witch hunt" more a case of the hell with accountablity Sad

And as for Michael "You're doing a heck of a job" Brown had he spoken to me in the House hearing the way he spoke to Rep. Gene Taylor, I'd have likely had my very own 'Cynthia McKinney Moment'

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« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2007, 08:43:08 PM »

Can the Senate Homeland Security Committee not censure its Chairman over his decision?

I'm disgusted Angry with Lieberman on this one considering all the criticism he levelled at Susan Collins back then and what he's saying now

This is not so much an abandoning of a "witch hunt" more a case of the hell with accountablity Sad

And as for Michael "You're doing a heck of a job" Brown had he spoken to me in the House hearing the way he spoke to Rep. Gene Taylor, I'd have likely had my very own 'Cynthia McKinney Moment'

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See? Lamont was the clearly better choice.
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« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2007, 08:45:34 PM »

Lieberman is even worse than I ever thought. The guy is a complete slimeball who uses all the same rhetoric as your typical right-winger.
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« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2007, 08:58:05 PM »

Can the Senate Homeland Security Committee not censure its Chairman over his decision?

I'm disgusted Angry with Lieberman on this one considering all the criticism he levelled at Susan Collins back then and what he's saying now

This is not so much an abandoning of a "witch hunt" more a case of the hell with accountablity Sad

And as for Michael "You're doing a heck of a job" Brown had he spoken to me in the House hearing the way he spoke to Rep. Gene Taylor, I'd have likely had my very own 'Cynthia McKinney Moment'

Dave

See? Lamont was the clearly better choice.

And I'll have less of the wise cracks! I'm asking whether or not the Committee can, more or less, overrule Lieberman?

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« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2007, 09:03:20 PM »

Can the Senate Homeland Security Committee not censure its Chairman over his decision?

I'm disgusted Angry with Lieberman on this one considering all the criticism he levelled at Susan Collins back then and what he's saying now

This is not so much an abandoning of a "witch hunt" more a case of the hell with accountablity Sad

And as for Michael "You're doing a heck of a job" Brown had he spoken to me in the House hearing the way he spoke to Rep. Gene Taylor, I'd have likely had my very own 'Cynthia McKinney Moment'

Dave

See? Lamont was the clearly better choice.

And I'll have less of the wise cracks! I'm asking whether or not the Committee can, more or less, overrule Lieberman?

Dave

If in the primary Lieberman basically said "nominate me or I'll run as an independent in the general, and if elected will blackmail the Democrats to put me in a powerful position and then stab the party in the back", no one would've supported him. Lieberman alone is to blame for his conduct.

The Connecticut Democratic Party made their choice, and it was no Joe Lieberman. Supporting Lieberman afterwards is enabling anything he has done today.
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« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2007, 09:42:06 PM »

Oh Joe, just come to our side (I mean after you become pro-life, anti-gay, pro-gun, anti-raising taxes, etc. etc.)

He is still a Democrat in philosophy and much more so than most in the senate
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« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2007, 09:53:53 PM »
« Edited: January 16, 2007, 09:56:16 PM by SoFA Gabu »

You know, I don't get Lieberman.  He agrees with the Democrats on almost every single major issue save for Iraq, and yet here he is doing crap like this.  I've tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it's wearing really thin the more he says and does.
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« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2007, 09:55:17 PM »

Man this guy really ticks me off.  What does he have to gain by sheilding Bush?  I don't understand him at all.  As for killing Landrieu's chances, I think they were already dead.  Unless she can convince 200,000 people to move back to Louisiana she's done for.
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« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2007, 10:08:37 PM »

I figured it out.

Joe Lieberman = htmldon
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« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2007, 10:12:21 PM »

Can the Senate Homeland Security Committee not censure its Chairman over his decision?

I'm disgusted Angry with Lieberman on this one considering all the criticism he levelled at Susan Collins back then and what he's saying now

This is not so much an abandoning of a "witch hunt" more a case of the hell with accountablity Sad

And as for Michael "You're doing a heck of a job" Brown had he spoken to me in the House hearing the way he spoke to Rep. Gene Taylor, I'd have likely had my very own 'Cynthia McKinney Moment'

Dave

See? Lamont was the clearly better choice.

And I'll have less of the wise cracks! I'm asking whether or not the Committee can, more or less, overrule Lieberman?

Dave

Politically, no.  They do, Lieberman bolts, and the Senate is GOP.
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« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2007, 10:14:28 PM »

Maybe it's better to just let him bolt rather than allow him to f'uck up everything we try to do in the majority.
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« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2007, 10:15:16 PM »

Can the Senate Homeland Security Committee not censure its Chairman over his decision?

I'm disgusted Angry with Lieberman on this one considering all the criticism he levelled at Susan Collins back then and what he's saying now

This is not so much an abandoning of a "witch hunt" more a case of the hell with accountablity Sad

And as for Michael "You're doing a heck of a job" Brown had he spoken to me in the House hearing the way he spoke to Rep. Gene Taylor, I'd have likely had my very own 'Cynthia McKinney Moment'

Dave

See? Lamont was the clearly better choice.

And I'll have less of the wise cracks! I'm asking whether or not the Committee can, more or less, overrule Lieberman?

Dave

Politically, no.  They do, Lieberman bolts, and the Senate is GOP.

And Lieberman's chances of reelection in 2012 become significantly less than those of a snowball surviving 5 seconds in hell.
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« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2007, 10:29:31 PM »

Can the Senate Homeland Security Committee not censure its Chairman over his decision?

I'm disgusted Angry with Lieberman on this one considering all the criticism he levelled at Susan Collins back then and what he's saying now

This is not so much an abandoning of a "witch hunt" more a case of the hell with accountablity Sad

And as for Michael "You're doing a heck of a job" Brown had he spoken to me in the House hearing the way he spoke to Rep. Gene Taylor, I'd have likely had my very own 'Cynthia McKinney Moment'

Dave

See? Lamont was the clearly better choice.

And I'll have less of the wise cracks! I'm asking whether or not the Committee can, more or less, overrule Lieberman?

Dave

Politically, no.  They do, Lieberman bolts, and the Senate is GOP.

.....and all of those CT Dems who voted for Joe feel like the biggest dumbasses in history.....
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« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2007, 11:01:20 PM »

You know, I don't get Lieberman.  He agrees with the Democrats on almost every single major issue save for Iraq, and yet here he is doing crap like this.  I've tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it's wearing really thin the more he says and does.

I think its just to spite us for not giving him the nomination in 2004 Tongue
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« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2007, 11:07:06 PM »

Lieberman should be stripped of his committee chair. He's bluffing.
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« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2007, 03:28:56 AM »

What to the ever.
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« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2007, 08:56:01 AM »


Couldn't care. Anyone not from that family.

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The Landrieu's haven't "exactly" been opponents of "de-blacking" though... if Landrieu loses for that reason, it would just prove that someone up their has a sense of humour.

Re; Lieberman in general... unfortunately, the reality of the sitution with him is that you're all just going to have to get used to sucking him off every now and again for the next few years. Unless you want the Republicans to take back the Senate. He's probably enjoying all this rather a lot...
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« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2007, 10:01:12 AM »

C'mon, jfern, you didn't really expect Holy Joe to investigate all those Republicans after they so generously donated to his reelection campaign did you? Yes, Lieberman is slime, but this is hardly surprising.
Hate to say it, but that's probably the best approximation of his motifs that we're going to get.

And I'm not so sure about the NOLA deblacking stuff... sure the city has lost population, but the Black parts of Jefferson Parish seem to be going strongly, as viz. Dollar Bill's recent election experiences. And St Bernard Parish is basically gone for good, but it had only 60,000 inhabitants, and they were mostly White Republicans anyways.
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« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2007, 10:22:39 AM »

Since Joe is not welcome anymore in the Democratic Party, I propose a straight up trade - Lieberman for Hagel.  We'll both be happier.
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« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2007, 10:47:01 AM »

Seconded.
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« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2007, 10:53:16 AM »

Astonishing.  The Democratic Party needs to sustain as many Senate seats in the South as it can.  We only have the entire Arkansas delagation, and one in Florida, Virginia and Louisiana. 

As for Lieberman - that man really is maddening.  I hope he gets removed from Chairmanship of Homeland Security; such an important committee shouldn't have a complete tw*t like him holding it.
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