'Joe Lieberman has become the Balloon Boy dad of the Senate Democratic caucus, a fame-whore....'

[Jackeens]

UK Guardian: Enemy of the public option

Joe Lieberman has long been a thorn in the side of the Democratic party. Now he wants to sabotage healthcare reform

Maura Keaney

Joe Lieberman has become the Balloon Boy dad of the Senate Democratic caucus, a fame-whore so addicted to media attention that he hatches ever-more-desperate and risky schemes that sell out his "family" to earn press attention.

Progressives can only hope that, like Richard Heene, Lieberman will finally be exposed as a fame-seeking fraudster after his latest stunt, Tuesday's threat to filibuster any bill for healthcare reform that includes a public option.

No one who's been paying attention should be surprised by Lieberman's move, yet the Washington press corps responded as if they'd never heard of the boy who cried wolf. This is Lieberman's schtick, the only act that's ever consistently gotten him ratings.

Lieberman crashed and burned as a presidential candidate in 2003, after his self-coined "Joementum" carried him to a pathetic fifth-place showing in the crucial New Hampshire Democratic primary. And he wasn't too much of a hit as a vice-presidential candidate, either, sucking up to Dick Cheney in debates and underwhelming voters with his trademark Droopy Dog jowly drone.

More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/oct/28/joe-lieberman-healthcare-congress-democrats

[opihimoimoi]

1. In Tonia...he would be castrated and made to eat natto

[IndianaGreen]

2. In a nazi concentration camp. Lieberman would have been one of the kapos

Inside the concentration camps there were Jewish police, prisoners known as "kapos." In return for special privileges, kapos forced other Jews to obey Nazi orders, just as the Jewish police had done in the ghettos.

http://www.rossel.net/Holocaust08.htm

[Cha]

4. Very sad but

his history says true.

[Cha]

3. Lieberman is an attentionWhore on the pitiful scale of

the poor Balloon boy's dad. Of that there is no debate.

But, like Senator Tom Harkin says..

<snip>

"Lieberman Has Something to Lose"

Harkin: Lieberman Has Something to Lose
By Matthew DeLong

The Iowa Independent caught this quote from Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), talking about Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) recent threat to join a GOP filibuster of a health care bill that includes a public health insurance plan.


“(Lieberman) still wants to be a part of the Democratic Party although he is a registered independent. He wants to caucus with us and, of course, he enjoys his chairmanship of the (Homeland Security) committee because of the indulgence of the Democratic Caucus. So, I’m sure all of those things will cross his mind before the final vote.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8722587

[safeinOhio]

5. I'd stay up late to see some reporter

ask Joe if he'd still stop HCR if he knew it would cost him his chairmanship.

[Cha]

7. lieberman stays away from

any real media..prefering to spend his time whining to faux.

It would be too funny if he stumbled into Rachel's show or KO's and they grilled him on his past words in 2006 regarding the Health Reform(he was for it) and all the money going to Israel who do have very good health care for their citizens, I've read.

[Jennicut]

6. I apologize for voting for him...in 2000. Hey, I was 24 and had no idea he was such a complete

and utter jerk. And he was running for VP. I did not vote for him in 2006.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

8. Sounds like the journalist is a big fan of the Bob Kincaid show.

[LynnTheDem]

9. There's a very sound reason he's known as Joe the LIEberman.

Like all good republica,s he lies. And lies and lies and lies.

And like all good republics, getting $ for himself is job #1; fuck We The People.

Sad thing for Joe the LIEberman; We The People of Conn. have caught on.

[rebel with a cause]

10. Lie bur man strikes again.

the latest from lying joe. "I probably will support some Republican candidates for Congress or Senate in the election in 2010. I'm going to call them as I see them," Lieberman said. From an ABC interview.


http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/10/30/2114134.aspx