Democrats Prepare Tar, Feathers for Lieberman
The Joementum is coming to a halt. After months of hard campaigning for John McCain and a primetime RNC speech that ripped into Barack Obama, Joe Lieberman is in awfully hot water with his Democratic colleagues in the Senate.
Sen. Joe Lieberman's affiliation with Democrats was in question after a meeting Thursday with Majority Leader Harry Reid, steamed over the Connecticut independent's high-profile support of John McCain for president.
Reid, in a sternly worded statement after the 45-minute meeting, said no official decisions have been made. But an aide to the Nevada Democrat said Reid was leaning toward removing Lieberman as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions were confidential.
"While I understand that Sen. Lieberman has voted with Democrats a majority of the time, his comments and actions have raised serious concerns among many in our caucus," Reid said.
Imagine Lieberman's humiliation. If he stays with the Democrats, he will be majorly demerited; if he joins the Republicans he will be in a party very much out of power. This must be the most embarrassing moment of his political career.
No, wait — actually that would be when he lost his own party's primary for the Senate seat he had held for 18 years and was forced to run as an independent while all his Democratic colleagues backed his opponent.
Actually, wait — maybe it was when he drove around New Hampshire for months in 2003 and 2004 in a red, white and blue hearse before suffering an embarrassing loss in the state's presidential primary.
OK, last one — the man locked lips with George Bush.
And I'm done.
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The Dems "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" hypocrisy in dealing with Lieberman is over. Ma's dead. Time to deal with Fredo.
So I'm funny huh? I'm funny? So you think I'm a clown? What? Do I make you laugh? Do I amuse you?
Your rotting fish is in the mail.
I went out to pick up some Chinese carryout last night and my Congressman, Dutch Ruppersberger, was there as he often is. His right arm was in a sling. I mused privately that he'd wrenched his shoulder trying to throw Joe Liebermann from the Capitol dome.
Dave W- Oh please, get to the point. I love Chinese. What's your favorite? My older son and I get our favorite dishes and share. We got this great place we go to.
Suzy, must be the same place I go to.
Very smokey taste? Where they cook it right in front of you, smile and treat you real right when they know your face as a regular customer?
Lieberman Solution: Ambassador to Finland.
Oh girl, you are devious. Lousy climate, pale food, scarcely any culture to speak of (well, Sibelius, I guess). Does Helsinki even have a synagogue? And I was just going to put him in the hall outside Senate chambers!
Lieberman Death Watch: Democratic Senate Caucus meets November 18th.
No vegan gentility: I want red meat & screams of pain.
One thing I can tell about Lieberman, he's a screamer.