The Mental Collapse of Poor Joe Lieberman

[donsu]

http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/2007/11/the-mental-coll.html


I hope the Butterfly Net Brigade is on red alert, or readied for code blue, or in some other appropriate state of colorful preparation, because Joe Lieberman is now publicly embarrassing himself beyond all rational defense.

Thursday, Joe gave a morning talk at The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and Friday, I read it in an advanced state of stupefaction. Here was a United States Senator talking, and talking ... and talking, and sealing his diagnostic fate with every word. He had come with a dagger in his teeth, but proved only the need for a needle in the arm.

His target? Democrats. Pretty much all Democrats -- the base, the candidates, the blogospheric backgrounders and any peripheral hangers on. That in itself, God knows, is no sign of insanity, since no one excels at self-loathing like Democrats themselves. But it was the foils that Joe chose to make Democrats look ridiculous that boomeranged throughout, paradoxically making the latter's case and utterly destroying the pixilated prosecutor.

-snip-

"Since retaking Congress in November 2006," Joe began, "the top foreign policy priority of the Democratic Party has not been to expand the size of our military for the war on terror or to strengthen our democracy promotion efforts in the Middle East or to prevail in Afghanistan. It has been to pull our troops out of Iraq, to abandon the democratically-elected government there, and to hand a defeat to President Bush."

Those two sentences alone reveal the eeriest of mental disconnects and verbal drool.

-snip-

But finally, after pouring out all the evidence of his most troubled condition, he concluded, "That is why I call myself an Independent Democrat today."


Joe, how 'bout we just call you nuts.
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traitor is what he is

religiously insane traitor (he thinks Israel is the be all and end all)

[MrCoffee]

1. he can call himself the king of all england, doesn't change the fact that he's a

fucking asshole.

[lonestarnot]

2. Biggest pile on the hill, and we are accumulating piles lately.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Please see my sig line ...

[tabasco]

4. Like another poster pointed out, Joe knows his days of influence are waning.

When the Dems get a real majority in the Senate, he will be a nobody.

He will get the boot when he runs again.

Holy Joe decided to cast his lot with the neocons and he is working now to secure a good job after his Senate days are over. He is a corrupt sell-out of the worst variety.

[Bjorn Against]

13. He knows he won't win if he runs again in Connecticut, that is why he is trying for VP...

I have no doubt that he is a top consideration for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination, in fact I would not be surprised if he has already been talked to about the position. The Democrats need to come out and attack him now, they can not keep waiting until it is too late.

[Kolesar]

5. Lieberman even put that crap up on his own, official Senate website

It's linked from PM Carpenter: http://lieberman.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=287039

I just hope that the people of Connecticut read it. Too bad its too late to hook him and they have to endure another 5 years of the chinless opossum.

[lonestarnot]

6. Can't we just ship him over to fight the Armageddon they are creating?

[Venus Dog]

7. Another tool of the neocons

and AIPAC

He stabbed Gore in the back in 2000 with the missing military votes thing. He's an old friend and Yale collegemate of Mukasey.

In fact, the first call for cross-border attacks on Iranian targets was made by the Senate's "independent" Democrat, Joseph Lieberman, who is regarded as particularly close to the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

Indeed, it was Lieberman and Republican Senator John Kyl - an honorary co-chair of the pro-Likud Committee on the Present Danger - who co-sponsored the Senate amendment naming the IRGC as a terrorist group in an effort clearly designed to help tilt the internal balance within the administration.

As introduced, the amendment, which according to several Capitol Hill sources was drafted by AIPAC, actually went considerably further, deploying language that some senators argued could be interpreted as authorizing war against Iran.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II29Ak01.html

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. That is so weird -

all his complaints are of congress doing exactly what I complain about congress NOT doing.

[TwilightGardener]

9. In contrast to Joe's utter insanity,

we have this speech from a rational Republican, given a day before:

"America is the great power -- not Iran. Because of that awesome responsibility that comes with great power, we must be more mature in testing the proposition that the United States and Iran can overcome decades of mutual mistrust, suspicion and hostility."

"America must not allow itself to become paralyzed by a fear that erodes our self confidence and trust in our Constitution and each other."

"Rather than acting like a nation riddled with the insecurities of a schoolyard bully, we ought to carry ourselves with the confidence that should come from the dignity of our heritage. . .from the experience of our history. . .and from the strength of our humanity. . .not from the power of our military."

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002510.php

Hard to believe Joe might have been President next year--(shudder). I still question Gore's judgement.

[tomg]

10. "And that's why I call myself. . ."

Fill in the blanks. Personally, I'm going with "a Pineapple Upside Down Cake today." I mean it makes as much sense as anything else he says.

[cboy4]

11. Awww leave Joe alone. He's in love.

[bvar22]

17. Menage a trois ?

They are sharing a little inside joke.

"What are they going to do? Vote Republican?" Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Bjorn Against]

12. I think having a mental collapse is a requirement for getting the GOP VP nomination...

And I have no doubt Lieberman wants to run for VP again, we know he is not getting the nod from the Democrats though(at least he better not, or I will never vote Democratic again). He does have a serious chance of getting the VP nod from the Republicans though, in fact I would say that more likely than not he will get it. This is why the Democrats need to attack him tooth and nail now, don't wait until he is already on the ticket.

[kirby]

14. I dont understand...

Most Democrats did not support Lieberman. He was voted into office by Independents and Republicans, right?
So why are people angry that he is representing the people who voted for him? It just shows the pandering
nature of politics.

[Kurovski]

15. "...sealing his diagnostic fate with every word."

Good stuff.

[WinkyDink]

16. No such thing as an "Independent-Democrat", Joe. You paid yer money, and you took yer cherce.

[Naturyl]

18. LIEberman = Zell Miller Part Deux. (n/t)