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Lieberman On Video: Forget Mukasey's Torture Views, Just Confirm Him Already
As promised, here's some video of Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor today saying that it would be "unjust" to oppose Michael Mukasey's confirmation as AG over a peripheral detail such as his refusal to say whether waterboarding constitutes torture:
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So, how illegal would the activity have to be before Joe would oppose it?
November 1, 2007 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Call Sens. Leahy, Kohl, Feinstein, Feingold, Schumer, and Cardin--the six Judiciary Committee Dems who have yet to announce their intentions.
November 1, 2007 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lieberman . . . If the Party of One tells me to confirm Mukasey I'd get right on that . . .
Joe just cuz Connecticut is for Lieberman does not mean anybody else is.
November 1, 2007 6:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Could we please just waterboard Lieberman?
Why is he still relevant?
Why?
November 1, 2007 6:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
And this is the guy who thought Clinton had disgraced the Presidency! Another reason Senate Dems will continue to look to Joe's leadership on moral issues.
November 1, 2007 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is hard to understand why any Jew would condone torture, after the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust. Maybe Joe Lieberman and Chuck Schumer are in denial about the holocaust and what the Nazis did to the Jews.
November 1, 2007 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Heckuva job Hillary
November 1, 2007 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's getting hard to ignore the fact that Joe Lieberman is not only the most self-centered, self-absorbed man in the Senate; he's also batshit crazy.
November 1, 2007 7:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was thinking a while ago that ol' Joe would probably vote for just about anyone for AG if they promised to let him waterboard someone.
November 1, 2007 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Every time I write to Joe, as my senator (ouch, that hurts to admit), I ask him to SWITCH parties and become a Republican. I'm not holding my breath on that issue.
I can understand his wanting Judge Mukasey to be AG given the fact that he was ol'Joe's law school classmate. However, the more nagging feeling I get is that Joe has just sold his soul to Bushco and would reenact “The Kiss” with GW that became such a big part of the campaign in '06 in a heartbeat. Maybe now, it would be a different part of GW's anatomy.
November 1, 2007 10:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Was Joe's voting record as a Dem, before he went Independent and started to vote Republican?
It looks like Joe is a true Republican now.
November 1, 2007 10:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's Lieberman again being scary (at about 5:30 into the clip). The rest is interesting too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjMRgT5o-Ig
November 1, 2007 10:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Check out some of the already dirty fliers and releases the GOP is running after Clinton's comments on illegal immigrants.
November 1, 2007 10:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's to the point that when I see that smirk on Liebermans face I want to retch. The dems better strip his chair and seniority in the next congress.
November 2, 2007 8:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
So, how illegal would the activity have to be before Joe would oppose it?
I think that probably depends on the activity. IIRC broadcast foul language is the kind of thing he gets disturbed about pretty quickly, as are smutty books & movies.
Apparently torture ranks rather lower on his personal list of what one ought to be upset about.
November 2, 2007 9:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh for gawd's sake, nobody cares what this dingus says...
Please Dems, just one more senate seat in 2008.
November 2, 2007 10:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
31Tudor,
In 2003 I looked up recent voting score cards from a wide spectrum of interest groups for all the Democratic primary candidates who were in congress. At that time, Joe Lieberman had (and may still have) one of the better voting records in the senate on environmental issues, reproductive rights and public health in general. He was not great on for a Democrat on labor issues, civil liberties, women's rights, education or animal rights but certainly no Republican -- there tends to be a pretty yawning gap between the worst Democrats and the best Republicans on most issues. And of course he's always been something of a foreign policy hawk, particuarly where Israel and the Arab countries are concerned. He's pretty old school on Israel. On most other issues Lieberman was solidly middle of the Democratic pack. Pretty comparable to John Edwards actually, and a tick or two to the left of Bob Graham.
I have not had a chance yet to confirm whether my impression that he's swung considerably to the right since 2006 is reality or just perception. Of course there also isn't a lot of data too go on yet either. But as I mentioned before, the Republicans with very rare exceptions are so very, very bad on most issues that in all fairness they may still manage to make even Holy Joe look not as terrible as all that by comparison. From where Lieberman was in 2003, he would have had a ways to go to be as far right as Lincoln Chaffee and I frankly think the Republicans are pretty happy to be rid of Chaffee.
November 2, 2007 10:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
When you look up the word "swine" in the dictionary, you will find a picture of Joe Lieberman. There's an "A" word in the dictionary that also has his picture.
November 2, 2007 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink