Democrats Need to Jettison Lieberman As a Troublesome Traitor

[depakid]

Joseph Lieberman is a political bad penny.

The Connecticut senator and pseudo-Democrat just won’t go away - or stop undermining the political party that he clings to like a barnacle to the side of a ship. Since Al Gore selected him as his vice presidential running mate in 2000, Lieberman has been more contemptuous than caring about the Democratic Party’s claim to national leadership.

By seeking re-election to the Senate at the same time he was running for vice president, Lieberman signaled to the nation a half-hearted support for the Democrats’ chances of winning the White House in 2000.

Last year he sought re-election as an independent after losing the Democratic Party’s primary to Ned Lamont, a political newcomer who waged a largely anti-war campaign against the three-term senator.

“I am in this race to the end,” Lieberman said at the time. “For me, it is a cause, and it is a cause not to let this Democratic Party that I joined with the inspiration of President Kennedy in 1960 to be taken over by people who are far from the mainstream of American life that I fear we will not elect Democrats in the numbers that we should in the future.”

Electing Democrats was his goal then. Now, it’s foisting a Republican into the White House.


More: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/24/5978/

[Vickers]

1. I still can't believe Gore picked that jackass as his running mate.

Yes, I know all of the standard reasons bandied about at the time, but still...what a colossal disappointment.

[annie1]

8. Seriously. I couldn't believe it when he announced it.

[kansasblue]

2. we're going to have to tolerate him for one more year...

and then toss his ass. For now we need him to caucus with us.

[sandyd921]

3. I second the motion to ditch Lieberman

n/t

[existentialist]

4. The ONLY problem with this logic is

that: In the Senate with 50 Democrats, 49 Republicans, Lieberman, and Darth Vader sitting on the tie breaking vote when the need arises, the fact that Lieberman still caucuses with the Democrats gives the Democrats the chairmanships of all Senate committees.


Otherwise I wholeheartedly concur.

[KennedyGuy]

5. agreed

The sooner we can ditch that jackass overboard..the better.

[slick8790]

7. Not true.

Senate is organized. We have the chairmanships regardless of Lieberman caucusin with us or not. We stay in control of house and senate regardless of changes in numbers until january 2009.

[lateo]

6. Democrats need to jettison the DLC with him.

[Kucinich4America]

9. I'll second that motion!

Technically, Joe already jettisoned himself from the Democrats when he ran on the "Nobody but Me Party" ticket in 2006.

[still_one]

10. It doens't matter, in 2008 he will become irrelevent. He s no longer a democrat anyway

if he wants to align himself with the democrats in congress to give them the majority or not, at this stage of the game is meaningless. The fact is our leadership hasn't really done very much anyway.

We should win Congress back in a big way in 2008, and if our representatives do not do our bidding for us then, it will be time to vote those regressives out, and vote progressives in, and take our party back

Patience...