I'd use a stronger word of describing what he did

Translation: I think Joe was an asshole.

This:

"But Joe Lieberman votes with me a lot more than a lot of my senators

I get that. I do. But the times that Joe wasn't with you, Harry, happen to be pretty important times.

The rhetoric is pointless. When are we going to get some leadership that can act? The party cannot trust Lieberman and he doesn't deserve any position of trust. Period.

I'll bet his office's server is starting to overflow a little with all of the e-mail. . .

FINALLY, a Lieberman story today!! ;-)

Throw the bum out!
What a pathetic character he is!

Traitor Joe is a man without a country. The Rs will let him caucus with them, so long as he keeps the coffee and doughnuts coming.

Also, good luck running for reelection in Connecticut in 2012 as a Republican with no seniority who called Barack Obama dangerously unprepared. Yeah.

I think we will all be sitting back at Thanksgiving expressing gratitude for Joe having gotten what he deserved!

What if they offered him a job to get him out of the Senate? Who would get the Senate seat?

A really legit question is - how can any politician who has gone out of his way to allign himself so strongly with the most thoroughly unpopular president in history be considered anything but damaged goods? He has a lot of penance to do before he gets away with acting like he's in the Senate leadership anymore.

Let's not forget one big reason that Reid and the caucus want to come down hard on Lieberman -- McCain's first choice for VP was Joe, and Joe was ready to say yes. In his own mind, Joe was already a Repub.

Hey peeps - we just got one of Nebraska's EVs -

365, bitches!!!

haha! I just got banned from this local right wing site for, I guess, laughing at their faux outrage over this Nancy Reagan thing.

I've already written to Harry Reid's office.

Lieberman must go. Period. What he did during the election completely and utterly overshadows his voting record and any other considerations.

He supported McCain. Annoying, but livable.

He said he'd speak at the RNC, but not attack Obama. Annoying again, but okay.

He spends much of his RNC speech...attacking Obama. Unforgivable.

He campaigns for down-ballot GOP candidates. Unbelievable.

He engages in Giuliani-like rhetoric directly against Obama in interviews. Unacceptable.

Fuck Joe Lieberman. That turncoat, servile, slimy bitch needs to go STAT. If Harry Reid doesn't kick him out of the caucus, I swear I will spend the next four years doing my best to call attention to Lieberman's double-talk and Reid's lack of a spine.

Really the Right operates best from their true standpoint which is victimhood and faux outrage. They were trying to do that when they were in charge, which was very schizophrenic. I think they just need to be the permanent opposition.

It's where they are happiest and most comfortable.

:)

I find this interesting and the best argument I've seen for taking some time over this -

And by the way, it's looking like the full caucus vote will include the new Democratic Senators-elect. This decision, after all, will be about committee leadership assignments in the 111th Congress, and will be as much their business as anyone else's.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/7/162019/990/1022/656995

Lieberman is an asshole!

Did you all see that McCain is going to campaign for Chambliss? I want that ass beat!!

These Republicans just don't get it (some, not all). Obama was elected three days ago and they are all over his ass. They will never work with a Democrat, and obviously they like things just the way they are, pathetic.

Uh oh...

Harry Reid just made a sternly worded statement about Lieberman.

Which means we're screwed.

Man, "ef Loserman"!

Bye, bye Lieber Man

anything than beeing a beloved man LOL

or better just

G T H

Lieberman has been on a consistent and very public anti-Democratic Party and anti-Democratic voter path for three years.

He has no appreciation for the historic opportunity the party now faces. And, he could have been much less public in his opposition to the party.

That he votes with most of the Democrats should not change, if indeed he is a man of principle.

Reid fails the test of party leadership, if he can not stop hemming-and-hawing. Out of recognition of and respect for Lieberman's own choices, Reid and his colleagues need only say that Joe has no role in the party and that his actions have made that preference perfectly clear.

The only other defensible alternative is for Obama to offer Lieberman a comfortable, but meaningless, role in the administration. After all, Obama has said that he would include Republicans in his government.

Inside baseball I know, but as a former member of CT State Dem Central, one of the most important developments was that Audrey Blondin, a Dem State Central Committeewoman, who was 100% lieberman in the 04 pres. primaries (when I and many others on State Central would not even do the hometown favorite bit in NH), came out this summer with a motion in state central DEVESTATING Lieberman. I.E. His remanent support of most ardent die hards in CT Dem poliics is now gone (and not a minute too soon)!

HOLD ON! The sixty seat fillibuster breaker isn't sealed in stone yet. What's the rush? The recount in Minnesota is just as likely to go dem as repub. Today, 538 is saying that the votes left in Alaska may well be weighted toward the dem instead of Stevens because some of the early votes have been counted and they're going heavily dem. If we pick up those two, that's 59 senate seats with Lieberman. That leaves Georgia which I admit is a long shot, but the Senate Campaign Committee has a wad of money to spend on it and we have a ground game. We'd feel almighty stupid if we did make it to 59 without Lieberman after we'd already kicked him out don't you think? This shouldn't be more about revenge and punishment then it is about passing laws to help the people, economy and the whole country. Should it????

OUT with him.

It seems like a no-brainer for Reid: show Senator Palpatine to the airlock. End of problem.

Reid claims Lieberman votes with him most of the time, except for that one thing that has killed thousands of Americans, hundred of thousands of civilian, and cost trillions of dollars along with our moral leadership.

I'd say that outweighs virtually every Democratic vote Joe has ever cast.

Reid, if you do not lead on this, you must step down from YOUR leadership position. This country has elected an anti-war president. Elections have consequences.

Do your job.

You people sound like bitter drunks. Luckily, you're just a bunch of losers with too much time on your hands commenting on the internet. Meanwhile, the adults, and Harry Reid, will deal with this in a deliberative manner.

It's good to know, though, what you really think about overcoming partisanship, finding common ground, and focusing on good governance; to know how shallow your support for Obama really is.

So just keep shitting on the spirit of unity. Go ahead and focus on petty revenge. And keep hammering on all these symbolic gestures and tests of loyalty. It's befitting of jesters.

Sound and fury.

Sixty, schmixty. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out, Joe.

This just in (via WashingtonMonthly.com): the GOP's shiny new spirit of unity and bipartisanship!

"Jon Kyl, the second-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate, warned president-elect Barack Obama that he would filibuster U.S. Supreme Court appointments if those nominees were too liberal.

Kyl, Arizona's junior senator, expects Obama to appoint judges in the mold of U.S Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and Stephen Breyer. Those justices take a liberal view on cases related to social, law and order and business issues, Kyl said.

"He believes in justices that have empathy," said Kyl, speaking at a Federalist Society meeting in Phoenix. The attorneys group promotes conservative legal principles.

Kyl said if Obama goes with empathetic judges who do not base their decisions on the rule of law and legal precedents but instead the factors in each case, he would try to block those picks via filibuster."

But the really important thing is that Obama supporters are so awfully partisan, isn't it? What would we do without the wonderful Republican devotion to working together to solve our problems?

On traitor joe, I think we need some musical accompaniment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwnqqj5Q1BU

Bye, bye traitor joe.

I've dislike Lieberman since he ran with Gore. He always struck me as self-absorbed and holier-than-thou. I've LOATHED Lieberman since he became Sore Loserman and dispensed with any pretense of being loyal to his party.

He not only disagreed with his party on particular issues, he was a shameless shill for McCain and Palin (an idiot whose not-unlikley assumption of power could have place our country at great risk). With Joe, it is and has always been all about Joe. The irony of that weasel backing a ticket the motto for which was "Country First" is deep and rich.

Personally, I think he should be shunned like an Amish whore for as long as possible and then publicly humiliated by stripping him of power. Make him grovel; then boot him. Hell, I'll buy popcorn, sit back and enjoy.

However, the timing of the public emasculation should be when, and not before, the party's best interest can be maximized. If that's now, tee it up now. If that's a year from now, after the Dem's have had a chance to demonstrate to the public that they can govern in a more bi-partisan fashion, let it be then. As they say, revenge is best served cold.

I want to believe that this is NOT yet more dithering from Harry. But I've been disappointed so many times in the past when his tough rhetoric was followed by caving and accomodation. Come on, Harry, you will NEVER have a stronger hand of cards to play than you have now. Pull the trigger on this *sshole and be done with it.

The bottom line is that Lieberman cannot be trusted. I don't know what there is to say about it. What does he have to do to make Reid a believer? If he bent over any further for the Repubs he'd be able to see the dark side of the moon.

What people tend to forget is that after his re-election in 2006, Lieberman saw himself as a brave new force to counter what he saw as the country's (disfunctional) two party system. He wanted to strike out his own and build himself a small, independent caucus (with him as the titular head, of course) which would have had held great sway in a divided senate (along the way, dissing Senator Olympia Snow of Maine, who had for quite some time been holding a quiet, weekly meeting of a small group of 'independent-minded' Senators) So now, with the loss of any influence he might have had, he's whining that his former party should just let 'bygones be bygones'? I guess he tended to forget that, once a traitor, neither side will ever trust him again.

OT: Lots of protests, in the thousands, here in CA over Prop. 8: there are now three separate suits filed with the CA Supreme Court.

What I find appalling is that a group of people can get an initiative on a ballot, often times by dubious means, and then mislead the general/uninformed public through wording exactly what a measure says, and suddenly you have new law. In this case, an actual amendment to the state constitution. Where does this stop? Alabama just passed a law that gays cannot adopt, they would rather let orphans live in foster homes. At some point, there has to be judicial ruling putting to rest these ridiculous civil rights violations. I don't understand how we have so successfully blurred church and state issues.

In any event, if you are not a member of the ACLU, and can afford to join, it would be most appreciated. They are one of the groups representing the plaintiffs fighting for fairness and equality. Thanks.

Larry Summers = Dr. Gregory House

I think they should "PUT AMERICA FIRST" and castrate this moron.

Yeah, Joe's a dick, but a lot of Dems would have some 'splainin' to do if I was Mr. Prez-elect O. The damage that HRC and other primary opponents tried to inflict verbally on My Hero would also be unforgivable had she and they not worked so hard to redeem themselves post-primary. There is nothing Joe L. can do to even come close to redemption by the standard HRC set for working for forgiveness.

It's more than just Lieberman's opposition. It's much, much worse. Lieberman promised his colleagues in the Senate that while he was only "supporting" John McCain, he would in no way ever attack his colleague Senator Obama. He then proceeded to attack Senator Obama's patriotism in the most underhanded ways imaginable, including saying publicly that Obama "always puts his own interests ahead of the interests of the nation." Pretty sinister stuff, and he said this while angling for the GOP vice presidential nomination. Did you know that Senator Obama had campaigned for Lieberman in CT -- one of the very few colleagues who agreed to after years of Lieberman's disloyalty -- during the latter's controversial 2006 Senate race, when he was ultimately denied renomination in the primary but won the seat after being supporting by 80 percent of CT Republicans? Lieberman is a man of deep, deep hates. If you disagree, go back and revisit how he won his seat in 1988 against poor Lowell Weicker. Once a Rat, always a Rat.

For the first time in elections Democratic party showed some balls during this campaign. Kicking Lieberman out for good is necessary to keep up that strategy. He is an evil we can't afford to be on our side, besides he won't be on our side for long.

I also wrote to Harry Reid's office. I told him Lieberman must go, and if Reid can't manage that he should gather Pelosi with him & together leave the Democratic leadership to actual partisan Democrats who didn't roll over for the Republicans the past two years. Republicans in Democratic clothing Pelosi & Reid have been the past two years. I say they step aside for younger, more progressive leadership, not some chump who's going around saying Obama doesn't have a mandate. STFU Lieberman, Reid & Pelosi. And please leave, you latter two, if you can't lead for a new, progressive president.

Realizing how worthless Lieberman was as committee chair is just another good reason to remove him--everything that Bush has been doing over the past two years, and he doesn't feel any need to conduct investigations?
He flat out called Obama unpatriotic, after Obama campaigned for him, and after he promised that he wouldn't personally attack Obama? WTF? He is not a man of his word and not a man of honor.

As for Larry Summers, for those who don't know about him--he was already Treasury Sec. under Clinton, and from what I've read, was complicit along with Rubin in allowing Phil Gramm's awful deregulation bill to pass. The notion that he's the only one who can do the job is absurd, and being promoted by certain Republicans who want to see him back as a way of sticking it to feminists.

His statements on women and math aren't the reason I'm against him being re-appointed, it's because I'd really rather see a new face in that post, and the deregulation that started at the end of the 1990s. I'd also prefer that Obama appoint a new defense secretary right away, and not keep Gates. Again, the notion that a certain person is the only one who can do the job is absurd. I'm all for Republicans working in his administration, just not Republicans who worked so closely with Bush. We need a clean break from all that.