Lieberman Contributed to GOP Senate, House Candidates

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: Washington Post

....When Democrats gathered last week to decide the fate of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), a pair of senators-elect, Tom Udall of New Mexico and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, stepped up to offer symbolically important speeches. Having ridden the wave of support for President-elect Barack Obama, Udall and Merkley spoke out in favor of the spirit of reconciliation and moving on from the campaign, in which Lieberman was one of the highest profile supporters of the Republican presidential ticket.

But no one in the room knew, as Merkley spoke, that Lieberman had supported Merkley's opponent, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.). Lieberman, through his Reuniting Our Country PAC, gave Smith's reelection bid $5,000 on Oct. 10, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Lieberman's support of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for the presidency was well known, punctuated by his nationally televised speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul criticizing Obama as not prepared to be president. His endorsement of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who has served as the top Republican beside him at the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, also was well known in Democratic circles.

But not even Merkley knew of Lieberman's backing of Smith in their critical Senate race, until Capitol Briefing alerted his staff today....

Lieberman's support of Smith came the same weekend he wrote an op-ed in the St. Paul Pioneer Press defending Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) for his work as chairman of an investigative subcommittee on Lieberman's homeland security committee. The same day he wrote a check to Smith, Lieberman's ROC PAC gave $5,000 to Rep. Peter King, the Long Island Republican. In radio and TV appearances the final days of the campaign, Lieberman also frequently said that a Democratic majority of 60 votes, a filibuster-proof level, would be a bad thing....

Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2008/...

[Tempest]

1. Tell me again why the Democrats are playing kissy face with this POS

You lie down with dogs, you get the same fleas.

[saracat]

2. The Prez elect likes him. He said he wanted him to remain.

I guess they think they "need" his vote. All has been forgiven due to political expedience.

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[pattmarty]

6. See, that's the thing with all of us out here in blogsovannia..........

......it's easy for us to call a piece of shit a piece of shit. BUT, looking at it politically, he does vote the same as "most" Dems vote on MOST of the important issues. It is strictly a politically smart move and I hate to admit it, a probably correct one too. Now keep in mind, I am strictly talking political here NOT moral.

edit to include: He more than likely will be gone in 2012, either by a REAL Republican (not likely) or (more likely) by a real Dem.

[Kelvin Mace]

12. He votes with us

except when he doesn't.

And he WILL knife us in the back at some critical juncture in the future. Mark my words.

[Zhade]

18. How will he do that - contribute money to defeating Democr-

Oooooooh.

[pattmarty]

22. I agree. But, that's the political version of "taking the good with the bad".

[cstanleytech]

16. Exactly, hopefully the dems will be able to get someone

to run against him to kick him out though in 2012 that or maybe Obama could offer him a post in his cabinet in order to clear the way for someone to be appointed to serve Liebermans term out.

[pattmarty]

26. Well, I wouldn't go as far to say that he should give him a.........

...........cabinet post or any other post.

[cstanleytech]

35. Why not? He would answer to the president himself then and if Obama

is unsatified with his performance he can ask for his resignation plus dont forget the real brightside of such a thing happening which is that hopefully a democrat will be appointed to the position or if its a republican atleast they would be unable to hide their true party loyalty like Lieberman was able to mislead so many in his state into believing he was still a part of.

[pattmarty]

36. Again, I took and am looking at what I consider the "political view"...

....on Lieberman. Let him keep the Homeland security chairmanship, strip him of the others, with the explicit agreement that if he does not vote with the Dems WHEN THEY NEED HIM TO, he is O-U-T of the Dem caucus and good luck and good riddance. I believe that is what they offered "Joe" and he accepted it. Why fuck up a political "agreement" by offering/giving him a cabinet post down the road?

[geckosfeet]

7. I don't know. He should have been dumped in 06. He is not a democrat.

[TheWraith]

13. Because he votes with us 80+% of the time.

And because if he wants any future as anything but a doorstop, he now has to kiss up to the Dems.

[Phred42]

19. Pisson Joe "The Blade" LIEberman

[alllyingwhores]

21. Oh...I don't know...because they're spineless, pathetic sychophants...and reeeeaaly fucking stupid.

[geomon666]

3. Well thank god he's on our side.

[ksimons]

4. oh joe - to be a stranger in one's own country... how does it feel?

i hope enjoys being alone in a crowd - no one will trust him ever again - he's contagiously untrustworthy. Stay away.

[Overseas]

5. K&R for the "with friends like these" file //nt

[frylock]

8. lieberman continues to pwn so-called democratic leaders..

looking good there, dems.

[KamaAina]

9. Our very own Sen. Daniel "In-Your-Way" *hosted fundraisers* for Ted Stevens (R-Cell Block J)!

the two have had a sort of Damon and Pythias -- or recently, a Hannity and Colmes -- style relationship for decades.

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=8250450

Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye has held a fundraising luncheon for 1 of his Senate colleagues.

Nothing unusual about that, but Inouye's a Democrat and he held the event Wednesday night for Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska.

Inouye and Stevens have a peas-in-a-pod friendship that spans decades, and even the most hard-bitten partisans seem to understand.

(sigh) I guess I'm a doubleplushard-bitten partisan...

[Sydnie]

10. Why would he want to 'pal around' with the very people that called him "Loserman"?

Did he not see the writing on the wall then that these people would chew him up and spit him out? He's like a battered woman who just can't seem to find the door with neon arrows and a moving sidewalk.

[Piewhacket]

11. Dammit. Lieberman should have been stripped...

of his chair. dammit!

Politics is sure a scum sucking biz, that's all I can say.

[peacetalksforall]

15. Everything he utters and every bit of news about him is worse than the previous thing

he said or did. What a disaster for Democrats. Now he's about to flip to Dems?

[debunkthelies]

17. 'Methinks'

Liberscum got the blackmail tapes Bush and Cheney used for the last 8+ years.

[IndianaGreen]

20. Lieberman deserves the same fate as that of the turkeys in Sarah Palin video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kjM1asH-8

Holy Joe to the turkey chipper!

[fascisthunter]

23. Obama Campaigned for Him Too.....

[IndianaGreen]

24. During the Democratic primary, Obama campaigned on behalf of DSCC

It was then that Obama quipped about the "big elephant in the room."

[RFKHumphreyObama]

30. So did Bill Clinton, Boxer and quite a few other people

But that was in the primary. They supported and in most cases donated to Lamont in the GE

[kristopher]

25. Revenge is a dish best served cold... nt

[ElsewheresDaughter]

27. May he rot in Hell!

[mascarax]

28. I detest this man

He did not deserve to keep his cushy chairmanship - yet more reasons.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

29. I have a dream.

I dream that somewhere, somehow, someway, The Silly Little Man's dish of revenge, yet to be served to him, is slowly being chilled.

Alas, it is but a dream.

[msatty99]

31. Lieberman revealed himself

When he took to the floor of the senate and denounced Clinton's sexual perversity and sullying of the White House.

Then, Gore took him to his breast....by way of atonement and distancing himself from Clinton

Then, Lieberman, as an 'independent' embraces the war.

He has been constant.

It is our party that has been un-constant with him. We sang his praises eight years ago.

His behaviour has always been traitorous .... it was no longer expedient for us in 2008

Apparently, it is, again, expedient for our party to embrace this toad. We have done so.

[unkachuck]

32. I can only assume....

....that traitor-joe is the new acceptable minimum standard for being an acceptable minimum Democrat....

"...gave Smith's reelection bid $5,000 on Oct. 10"

....since Obama has blessed traitor-joe, I presume contributing to a repug campaign is now ok....it must be part of that 'go along-get along' corporate philosophy I've never understood....

[Pastiche423]

33. Now I know we should have elected Steve Novick

instead of Merkley.

[snake in the grass]

34. If they only would have known...

...they would have supported him anyway. I really have to ignore this because it makes me go systolic.

[Roland99]

37. Color me shocked NOT. Anyone on DU who supported keeping that fuck still happy?

go to freeperland then.


fuck this vile piece of repuke shit.