He should have been kicked to curb long ago. Has he voted with the Democrats on any major issue where it really mattered? I don’t care what anybody says, he opens his mouth and I hear the guy from Alf.

Senate Democrats hinted at payback Thursday for Sen. Joe Lieberman, who called Barack Obama an untested candidate beholden to Democratic interest groups in a prime-time Republican National Convention address.

Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent and a close friend of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, still caucuses with Democrats, which allows them to control the Senate with a 51-49 majority . A spokesman for Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., indicated Thursday that Lieberman may no longer be welcome.

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So it’s confirmed. We now know why Lieberman has been away from the camera, and spending so much time in the cloak room with a crying towel. I’d be upset too. That bitch, McCain! Poor Lieberman. Sold his soul (and most of America) out for this second shot at the grand prize… only to have the rug pulled out from under him. Too delicious!

The constant fight we endure to keep the church from undermining and destroying our country is a constant struggle. Watching it completely take over and strangling the republican party is hilarious. If you weren’t sure before, now you know who pulls the strings on the right.

Also, I thing they got the title of the following article all wrong. It should read “Christian” instead of Conservative.

Advisers Say Conservative Ire Pushed McCain Away From Picking Lieberman

WASHINGTON — In the end, the choice of his running mate said more about Senator John McCain and his image of himself than it did about Sarah Palin, the little-known governor of Alaska whose selection has shaken up the presidential race.

For weeks, advisers close to the campaign said, Mr. McCain had wanted to name as his running mate his good friend Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democrat turned independent. But by the end of last weekend, the outrage from Christian conservatives over the possibility that Mr. McCain would fill out the Republican ticket with Mr. Lieberman, a supporter of abortion rights, had become too intense to be ignored.

With time running out, and after a long meeting with his inner circle in Phoenix, Mr. McCain finally picked up the phone last Sunday and reached Ms. Palin at the Alaska State Fair. Although the campaign’s polling on Mr. McCain’s potential running mates was inconclusive on the selection of Ms. Palin — virtually no one had heard of her, a McCain adviser said — the governor, who opposes abortion, had glowing reviews from influential social conservatives.

Quote of the day from Ned Lamont (you can guess who he’s talking about):

“He gets an Olympic gold medal for political gymnastics,” Lamont said. “In our race, he ran around saying, ‘I’m a good Democrat and he’s a Republican.’ And then when he ran as an independent, he told voters he would stay neutral in Washington. Now, he’s leading the attack against Barack Obama. It’s the gymnastics gold medal.”

Why brief McCain……he’s in no position to do anything but shoot his mouth off and pretend he’s the president. We’ve already seen that doesn’t work out too well. What morons…….

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday that his visit to Georgia, Ukraine and Poland, at Sen. John McCain’s behest, persuaded him that the United States and its allies must take tough steps to prevent further Russian military aggression against its smaller neighbors.

Graham, a South Carolina Republican, called on NATO to “stop war-gaming on tables in Brussels” and to begin military exercises in Europe to show its commitment to protecting member nations.

More at McClatchy

I’ll go with disgusted. Just the sight of Lieberman turns my stomach. The man should not only be drummed out of politics, he should be drummed out of the country too.

McCain, Lieberman coziness irks Dems, conservatives

Two of a kind.

Conservatives and Democrats rarely agree, but the decision to have Sen. Joe Lieberman speak at the Republican National Convention has put both groups on edge. [...]

Many Democrats were already angry with Lieberman for his strong and vocal support for the continued deployment of U.S. troops in Iraq.

If Lieberman were on the GOP ticket, conservatives argue, it would hurt McCain’s standing with conservatives because Lieberman supports abortion rights.

This whole abortion argument has me thinking. For several years, (up until 2006 anyways), republicans ran the show. They were basically in charge at every level of government, and Lord knows, threw their weight around at every opportunity.

So, with abortion weighing so heavily on the hearts and minds of their republican constituents, why didn’t Bush strike while the iron was hot? And don’t hand me that “he was too busy fighting a war” crap. The man has taken more vacation time than any other president in American history! He had plenty of time.

Where is their outrage?

An AP typo in an article about vice presidential picks calls Lieberman a prick. I’d say that’s no typo, they got it right!!

His top contenders are said to include Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Less traditional choices mentioned include former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, an abortion-rights supporter, and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000 who now is an independent.

From The Havana Note via My DD:

According to The Havana Note the Junior Senator from Connecticut has promised to seek a pardon for terrorist Eduardo Arecena. http://thehavananote.com/2008/07/lieberm an_to_seek_pardon_for_m.html

“Before addressing a pro-McCain event in Florida on July 20, 2008, Senator Joe Lieberman was recorded on video telling Miriam Arocena, wife of Eduardo Arocena, the Federally-convicted leader of the Cuban-American terrorist group Omega 7, that he will carry back to Washington her request for a Presidential pardon for her husband. Arocena is serving a mandatory life sentence and was convicted on 25 Federal counts in New York and 24 counts in New York.”

I urge you to read the entire piece in The Havana Note.

Why would Joseph Lieberman be interested in doing this? Why would he want this person pardoned?

“Cozying up to Cuban-American extremists in South Florida has been a part of American political culture for decades. It is an unseemly ritual that has nevertheless persisted because of the dysfunctional peculiarities of our Electoral College that grants Florida 27 votes, exactly 10 percent of the electors needed to win the White House.”

Thanks to the sleuthing of avid Cuba-watcher Phil Peters over at Cuban Triangle we now know that:

Lieberman said:

“It’s my responsibility, it’s my responsibility. I will carry it [the pardon request] back. I will carry it back. Yeah. I feel…I think of you like you were my family…. I’ll bring it back. I’ll do my best.”

You can see the video at The Havana Note.

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Wouldn’t you like two minutes alone with this guy on the back of a boat in the middle of the Atlantic? I know I would. The Democrats need to kick his ass to the curb. He SHOULD go speak at the Republican convention, God knows we wouldn’t want him speaking at the Dem convention.

From ABC Blogs:

“Look, the fact is that if Barack Obama’s policy on Iraq had been implemented, Barack Obama couldn’t go to Iraq today, it wouldn’t be safe,” Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ind-Conn., told Chris Wallace this morning on “Fox News Sunday.”

“Barack Obama, John McCain saw the same difficulty in Iraq,” Lieberman argued, “John McCain had the guts to argue against public opinion, to put his whole campaign on the line because, as he says, he’d rather lose an election than lose a war that he thinks is this important to the United States…”

Lieberman continued: “Sen. McCain and I and others want us out of Iraq, sooner rather than later, but want us out in a way that does not compromise all the gains that American and Iraqi forces have made in Iraq … And frankly, we want to stay there to a victory, because we don’t want all those who have served in the American uniform there to have served, or in some cases died, in vain. Remember this, Chris, we wouldn’t be having this discussion about how to get out unless the surge, which John McCain courageously fought for, taking on the president of his own party, popular opinion, risking his campaign, and which Sen. Obama opposed, worked. So, that’s the good news.”

And there’s this charge as well: “If Barack Obama’s policy in Iraq had been implemented, he couldn’t be in Iraq today, is because he was prepared to accept retreat and defeat, and that would mean, today, al Qaeda would be in charge of parts of Iraq, Iranian-backed extremists would be in charge of other parts of Iraq. There’d be civil war and, maybe, even genocide. And the fact is that we are winning in Iraq today. And, you know, you can’t choose, as Sen. Obama seems to think, to lose in Iraq so you can win in Afghanistan. The reality is, if we lost in Iraq, which Obama was prepared to do, we — we would go to Afghanistan as losers.”

This is basically the McCain spin on Obama’s Iraq trip: picture Iraq if the U.S. had withdrawn its troops.

A Politico article about “opposites attracting“.

Do they really think that Lieberman is the politically ideological opposite to McCain? Are they trying to make their readers laugh? Lieberman is so into McCain and his ilk that the brown on his nose is a permanent feature.

“Brown-nosing”

That nervous laughter you hear is the sound of party activists responding to speculation that Barack Obama or John McCain might pick a vice presidential candidate from the opposing party.

More specifically, it is reaction to talk that Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.) is being seriously considered as a running mate for Barack Obama or that Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.), an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, is a potential choice for John McCain.

Hagel and Lieberman, both estranged from their own parties over their stances on the war in Iraq, are often mentioned as attractive candidates for the vice presidency for precisely that reason. Hagel, a Vietnam War veteran, would offer some degree of validation to Obama’s approach to Iraq, while Lieberman would do the same for McCain, with both offering the advantage of adding an air of bipartisanship to the ticket.

From the Baltimore Sun:

A group of netroots activists plans to deliver a petition to the Capitol this morning with 43,000 signatures, asking senators to boot Joe Lieberman from his position in the Democratic caucus.

Filmaker Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films has led the petition effort, which attacks Lieberman’s record on the Iraq war. The petition calls for Lieberman to be removed from his position as chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

“We CANNOT tolerate a leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus who supports George Bush and McCain’s War in Iraq,” the states on its website. “We CANNOT tolerate a Democratic chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee who endorses and stumps for McCain. We call on the Senate Democratic Steering Committee to strip Joe Lieberman of his chairmanship and his leadership role.”

Matt Stoller of OpenLeft.com said that Lieberman’s view on national security and Iraq are a the far right of the political spectrum.

“He has attacked our presidential nominee; he has consistently attacked the position of our caucus,” Stoller said in a statement. “He has no standing as a Democrat, and should be stripped of his placement within the caucus. The future of Lieberman’s standing within the caucus is a litmus test for whether Democratic senators are serious about ending the war.”

Lieberman press secretary Marshall Wittman denounced the petition. He said in a statement that Lieberman will continue to put the country’s interests before partisan interests.

“Americans are tired of this type of old petty partisan politics,” Wittman said.