Joe ... You're Nothing To Us Now!

The Godfather Part 2 - Michael & Fredo Corleone



Now, I am not suggesting, by using the above-video referencem if what happens to those that turn against their own, that Harry Reid, or the Sargent-at-Arms, should take McKKKain's Mini-Me (aka Senator Joe Lieberman, R-I, CT) out fishing anytime soon, however, he does need to be buried, deep, within the Democratic Caucus somewhere.

Lots of political drama today, up on the Hill, with the big meeting between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Party-Joltin' Joe.

From Lieberman Meets With Reid, Tries To Cling To Senate Chairmanship

Immediately after his meeting with Reid, Lieberman told reporters that he had not made a decision about his future in the caucus, and appeared to launch his first public appeal to members of the Democratic steering committee, whose members decide committee chair assignments.

"I completely agree with President-elect Obama that we must now unite to get our economy going again and to keep the American people safe. that is exactly what I intend to do with my colleagues here in the Senate in support of our new president, and those are the standards I will use in considering the options that I have before me," Lieberman told reporters.

Here's the video of it.

What an asshole!

After spending the summer stumping with the Dead Campaign Express, Mommy Moose (and also some down-ticket Republican races), jumping in on all the lying and smearing, and he now wants to hide behind Obama?

Along with his Fredo-like qualities, he also is acting exactly like any one of the Bush Grindhouse deadbeats, avoiding taking responsibility for his own actions, obfuscating his position of campaigning against the Democrats by now embracing the new order.

Jesus, he spoke at the Republican National Convention!

You don't do that!

However much he wanted to support his buddy, Stumblin' Bumblin' John McKKKain, you don't go out and speak at the oppositions keg party.

Those are staged and reserved solely for tooting your own party's horn, strutting your party's positions, and demonizing the opposing party.

It's almost as if the debunked Mavericks' poor judgment is contagious

And he didn't stop there.

Just last week, he openly dissed his colleagues in the Dem caucus, spewing, just like all the other Flying Monkeys, the RNC Talking Points.

Lieberman: ‘I Fear’ That ‘America Will Not Survive’ If Democrats Get 60 Senate Seats

Today, in an interview with right-wing radio host Glenn Beck, Lieberman made clear that he firmly opposes Democrats gaining 60 seats in the Senate, saying that the survival of the country is in doubt if Democrats break the filibuster threshold:

BECK: But do you agree that Senator Hatch said to me that if we don’t at least have the firewall of the filibuster in the Senate that in many ways America will not survive?

LIEBERMAN: Well, I hope it’s not like that, but I fear.

Then, he added;

LIEBERMAN: And I think the filibuster is the key. You know, it gets a bad name, but it was really put there, a 60-vote requirement, to, as somebody said to me when I first came to the Senate, stop the passions of a moment among the people of America from sweeping across the Congress, the House, through the Senate, to a like-minded President and having us do things that will change America for a long time. So the filibuster is one of the important protections we have.

Who's that "we" you're talking about there, Mini-Me?

So, what to do with Mr. Finger-in-the-Wind?

The consensus is that Reid and the Dems will strip Mini-Me of his chairmanship, and downgrade him to some sub-committee of nothingness.

I would like to suggest to Senator Reid, that it be on the level of washing dishes, scrubbing pots and pans, cleaning toilets.

Party-Joltin' Joe has, pretty much, made his own bed here.

No doubt, the GOP side of aisle will be sweet-talking him, and out of forced angry, and insincere outrage, he may bolt over.

But Jane Hamsher has that angle covered;

Joe now goes to see if he can get a better deal from the GOP, knowing his chances of winning in Connecticut as a Republican in 2012 are about "zero."

Maybe, if you ask them nice, Joe, they'll let you sit next to the Stumblin' Fly Boy when the Senate is in-session.

However, just in case, learn to say the "Hail Mary", it brought Fredo good luck every time ...

Well ... All but once.


Bonus Joe The Weasel Riffs

Jane Hamsher: Sign the Petition: Strip Joe

Joe Sudbay (DC): Lieberman is learning there will be consequences

Spencer Ackerman: All You Fake Emcees You Know The Deal, I Carve Up Your Face Now You Look Like Seal

Steve Benen: REID AND LIEBERMAN HAVE A CHAT...

Breaking News! Lieberman Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”; Post-Debate Bombshell - Lieberman Announces Plan C – Will Run In All 50 States; Hires Nader For ‘Underdog” Experience; Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”

Pluto Planning Run With Independent Solar System; Takes Cues From Lieberman, Who Says May Caucus With New Galaxy

They Call Me "Mister Glass"

Boy, Little Billy Kristol sure seems preoccupied with glass lately.

Glass ceilings, to be specific.

Just a few days ago, Little Billy, in his own toy box, The Weekly Standard, stoked the soap opera of Hillary/TMFOITW, lamenting of the Democrats "Glass Ceiling".

Obama should have picked Hillary, and not Biden and that, gosh-darn-it, those Democratic delegates at the convention should right this wrong, by nominating Hillary - not for President, but Vice President.

Perhaps, in the days that followed, Little Billy was breathing in to much Windex, even, possibly, drinking it (you know how children are), for today, in his NYT column (I still believe the NYT is doing this as a running joke), Little Billy offers the solution to this terrible wrong:

McCain should ... Must .... Choose Joe Lieberman as his running mate.

And Hillary supporters could protest Obama’s glass ceiling by voting for John McCain and the Democratic Party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee.

That's right, McCain's Mini-Me vaulting up to the #2 spot, Vice Mini-Me.

I suppose, in Little Billy's world, no better champion of woman's rights, and smashing glass ceilings, than two old white guys.

As Attaturk puts it;

Yes, because who would bring down the "glass ceiling" faster than another two white guys who opposed equal pay and reproductive rights?

(Nice to know the Right Wing Freak Show isn't taking the run-up to Labor Day off ... Along with Little Billy Kristol, The Politico is also carrying the GOP's water today, with their own Hillary pumping, here)

Mister Glass lived, essentially, in a comic book world, a purveyor of evil

That, pretty much, sums up Little Billy Kristol.


Bonus Picture Window Links

Tbogg: Oh please, oh please…

M.J. Rosenberg: Shocker! Bill Kristol Urges Lieberman as Mc's VP (Pssst, He'll Bomb Iran)

Of Legacy Maintenance - And Corrections! ... David Corn's "REBUTTAL - Why Bush Is A Loser"

Lieberman's A Prick!

Radio Listeners Diss McCain's Mini-Me

Garlictorial: Why Wait - Toss Lieberman Over To The GOP Now!

Lieberman's A Prick!

Yeah, yeah, I know ... What else is new ...

Unfortunately, it's not a case of the MSM taking the blinders off and getting hip.

H/T to Libby Spencer, for her "Fun with typos", who in turn, Libby H/Tipped Atrios for the pick-up.

AP writer Nedra Pickler, in her boilerplate filing on the breathless Vice President speculation that is running rampant out on the World Wide Web (check out Memeorandum for a peek), "Obama veep announcement expected in coming days" has this little gem (with our emphasis added);

His top contenders are said to include Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Less traditional choices mentioned include former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, an abortion-rights supporter, and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000 who now is an independent.

God Bless'em ...

Lieberman just wasn't a prick in 2000, he's grown and built up his prickness with each, and every, day that has passed, to the point that he has become Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain's Mini-Me, and should be sitting on the red side of the aisle in the not-soon-enough future.

So, a memo to the rest of the MSM;

Add this to your style manuals ... Joe Lieberman, from this day, forward, should always be referenced to as a prick.

Look "prick" up in a dictionary, and, at least one of the definitions indicates "See Joe Lieberman"

MSNBC Doc-Bloc on pricks?

At least one segment, or episode, on Joe Lieberman.

End-of-the-year round-up on pricks?

Lieberman at the top of the list.


Bonus "Joe Lieberman - Prick" Links

Greg Sargent: Associated Press Gets One Right

Radio Listeners Diss McCain's Mini-Me

Garlictorial: Why Wait - Toss Lieberman Over To The GOP Now!

Biden Slaps Down McCain's Mini-Me

McCain's Mini-Me Hearts Hagee

Lieberman Officially Withdraws From 2000 Ticket; Prelude To Taking Bush Cabinet Post; With Rumsfeld Saying He's Staying, Appointment May Hinge On Cheney Indictment For Last Political Hoorah

Breaking News! Lieberman Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”; Post-Debate Bombshell - Lieberman Announces Plan C – Will Run In All 50 States; Hires Nader For ‘Underdog” Experience; Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”

No, Wait ... I Think It's Iran Training al-Qaeda To Pump The Gas ...

The Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain Campaign needs to establish some new media ground rules, if they plan on making to November.

Out, as-soon-as-possible, with the softball questions.

They need to lower their sights, and go with Whiffleball queries ...

Now, there's no guarantee that Stumblin' Bumblin' John still won't go down on three strikes, but they, at least, may be able to slow down the hemorrhaging of headlines like this;

McCain: It doesn't matter that I don't know cost of gas

Senator John McCain said he can't remember the last time he pumped gasoline or the cost of a gallon of a gas in an interview with the Orange County Register earlier this week.

The OC Register's Martin Wisckol asked McCain when he had last pumped his own gas, to which McCain replied:

"Oh, I don’t remember. Now there’s Secret Service protection. But I’ve done it for many, many years. I don’t recall and frankly, I don’t see how it matters," McCain said.

"I don't see how it matters"?

It's only that the cost of gasoline is in the news, oh, about 23.5-hours of the day!

And if the media (in particular, the clowns on the cable news programs) isn't lathering on the sad-sack stories, people making choices between filling the tank, or filling their medical prescriptions, or forced to dine on cat food, you have the other screaming heads, complete with their Rudy Valle megaphones, painting a gruesome future, with gas at $12-$15 before you can say "before your can say".

Was this another Stumblin' Bumblin' John attempt at humor, like he's trying to compete with Steven Wright, or something;

Last year we drove across the country. We switched on the driving...every half-mile...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip...I don't remember what it was ..."

Or perhaps, we need to be asking - Where was Joe Lieberman?

Why wasn't McCain's Mini-Me there, to whisper in his year "About four-bucks-a-gallon"?

I mean, if they are going to let him take softball questions, geez, you gotta have some back-up, some help, a designated question-answerer, to stay in the ball lingo.

This is, yet, another breakdown in keeping Stumblin' Bumblin' John's incompetence under wraps.

Is this, as in his Shiite-Iran-Sunni-Al Qaeda gaffe, back in March (twice), like Josh Marshall put it, that McCain is "Just Totally Out of It?", or, Cernig's "McCain As Ignorant As Dubya"?

Perhaps, as one of the friendly fluffers at Faux News, Britt Hume, let slip, a McCain "Senior Moment"?

I mean, this was one of the softest of softballs tossed his way and he muffed it.

This had to have prompted his wife to return the favor, and scream at him "You dickhead!".

Back, earlier this month, Steve Benen, on The Carpetbagger Report, had a good rundown on Stumblin' Bumblin' John's confusion;

The kicker is McCain really has been confused. Whether he’s 72 or 22 is irrelevant — he’s been consistently wrong about Iraq, demonstrating time and again that he just doesn’t understand the basics.

* McCain has been confused about how many U.S. troops are in Iraq.

* McCain has been confused about whether the U.S. can maintain a long-term presence in Iraq.

* McCain has been confused about the source of violence in Iraq.

* McCain has been confused about Iran’s relationship with al Qaeda.

* McCain has been confused about the difference between Sunni and Shi’ia.

* McCain has been confused about Gen. Petraeus’ responsibilities in Iraq.

* McCain has been confused about what transpired during the Maliki government’s recent offensive in Basra.

* McCain has been confused about Gen. Petraeus’ ability to travel around Baghdad “in a non-armed Humvee.”

* McCain has been so confused about Iraq, in November 2006, he couldn’t even do a live interview about the war without reading prepared notes on national television.

So what can we expect ... How will this one be mopped up?

Will his friends in the MSM give him another box of donuts (and with his favorite, sprinkles)?

Or, ... Oh God, I don't even want to think about it, especially with the flag-waving, apple pie of holidays coming up, July 4th ...

The photo-op.

Stumblin' Bumblin' John, all decked out in a retro attendants' uniform, complete with pointy boat hat, pumping gas at some middle-of-the-country gas station, waxing on for the cameras, about his energy policy...

Naturally, it would be "invited guests" only, coming in to fill up ...

Can't take any chances, that someone would pull in and actually ask him a softball question ...

And, definitely, not on a weekend.


Family at gas station, talking to, watching Attendant




Bonus Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain Riffs

Brilliant at Breakfast: And THIS guy is trying to paint BARACK OBAMA as the elitist??

Newhoggers: McSame is more ways than one!

John Cole: McOutofTouch

Blue Texan: Will McCain Have Lieberman Next To Him At 3AM?

Faiz - Think Progress: McCain Strolls Through Baghdad Market, Accompanied By 100 Soldiers, 3 Blackhawks, 2 Apache Gunships

McCain's Mini-Me's Buddy Is At It Again

I was watching the Sunday News programs, and on one of them (I can't remember which one) there was a Republican hack attempting to make hay, tying Obama, making Obama responsible for the Trinity Church dust ups, with Reverend Wright and Father Pfleger.

The host offered back, what about Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain and his Reverend John Hagee?

The Republican hack blew it off, saying something to the effect "You can't do much when someone's endorsement comes along ...", to which the host didn't challenge any further.

That certainly set off a bevy of Bullshit Meters!

As we all know, very well, Hagee's endorsement of SB John didn't just "come along".

McCain shopped around for a Bible-Thumpin' Jesus Freak and eventually settled on Hagee, standing by Hagee on the first handful of releases documenting Hagee's derangement, before finally throwing him overboard last week.

But Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain's Mini-Me, Senator Joe Lieberman (R-I, CT) is still aboard the S.S. Hagee, as we noted in our "McCain's Mini-Me Hearts Hagee", that despite the hidious remarks that prompted SB John to flip-flop, Mini-Me Joe was still going ahead with plans to speak at a Hagee event.

Well, there, Party-Jumpin' Joe, what say you with this latest revelaton?

Pastor Hagee: The Antichrist Is Gay, "Partially Jewish, As Was Adolph Hitler" (Paging Joe Lieberman!)

On March 16, 2003, on the eve of the United States' invasion of Iraq, Pastor John Hagee took to the pulpit to warn of the coming Antichrist. In his sermon, "The Final Dictator," Hagee described the Antichrist as a seductive figure with "fierce features." He will be "a blasphemer and a homosexual," the pastor announced. Then, Hagee boomed, "There's a phrase in Scripture used solely to identify the Jewish people. It suggests that this man [the Antichrist] is at least going to be partially Jewish, as was Adolph Hitler, as was Karl Marx."

WOW!

You just can't make this stuff up ...

Can't wait to see the YouTube of Mini-Me speaking at that Hagee event ...


Bonus Links

Pam Spaulding - Ralph Reed: McCain should keep his fundie meetings on the DL

Spencer Ackerman: Don’t Give Me Your Morals, They’re Filth In My Eyes

Hagee Going Emily Litella On Us ...

Radio Listeners Diss McCain's Mini-Me

This had me rolling on the floor.

Stumbling around the WWW, I came across the post "Joe Lieberman Is Ann Coulter", over on No More Mister Nice Guy, and included in it was this list.

It comes from NPR, on All Things Considered, their on-going series, "Vocal Impressions"

"In "Vocal Impressions," a monthly contest, listeners provide word pictures brought to mind by distinctive voices."

They put it out in their latest offering, the voice of McCain's Mini-Me, Senator Joe Lieberman (R-I, CT)

It's hysterical!

Joe Lieberman

A flat tire on a Segway

A soggy brown paper bag

A turtle standing on a stack of telephone books

A grease stain on a new silk blouse

Max White [the father character on the TV show Alf] reprimanding Alf for trying to eat the family cat, Lucky

The straining engine of a previously owned Yugo

An exhausted math teacher who needs to explain what a square is for the Nth time

A person suggesting we form another committee to look into a "mission statement" after a two-hour meeting

The fine, boring, important print in your insurance policy

Ben Stein being smothered with a pillow by Ralph Nader

A dog's squeak toy after the squeak has been removed

The cowardly lion's petite weaselly, older brother

A discarded banana peel

Like Gumby and Pokey were his speech therapists

As to Steve M's post, hitting on Mini-Me Lieberman for his continued embrace of the Final Days Minister, John Hagee;

I think there's a real possibility that he'll go too far. His trajectory is starting to look a bit like Ann Coulter's -- every criticism generates an even greater desire to provoke, and no apology is ever forthcoming.

The problem is, when you're provoking at this level of public scrutiny (i.e., if you're more mainstream than, say, Michael Savage), you eventually find yourself, like Coulter, regularly testing the limits, and eventually you go over the edge, with the mainstream press watching, because you're just in a unilateral rhetorical arms race. Coulter went over the edge when she started fag-baiting heterosexual Democratic politicians while declaring Jews "incomplete" Christians (along with attacking 9/11 widows and embracing McCarthy); Lieberman, I think, is just going to keep backing Hagee (and probably other Christian Zionists) ever more publicly while making increasingly strident McCarthyite attacks on Democrats until, by November, I expect to see him in the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal or on a Sunday talk show saying flatly, "Yes, I do think Barack Obama hates his country and would like to see it destroyed." His buddies in the media, like Coulter's, will continue to see him as not having gone too far, but it will be increasingly clear, particularly to Senate colleagues, that he's gone too far.

Maybe, Stumblin Bumblin' John McCain's Mini-Me Lieberman can be talked into, when he speaks at Hagee's summit, he can do it in costume, say, as Gumby or Pokey ... Or a soggy brown paper bag ...


Bonus Links

Lieberman’s capacity to be a Republican hack knows no bounds

Biden Slaps Down McCain's Mini-Me

Garlictorial: Why Wait - Toss Lieberman Over To The GOP Now!

Breaking News! Lieberman Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”; Post-Debate Bombshell - Lieberman Announces Plan C – Will Run In All 50 States; Hires Nader For ‘Underdog” Experience; Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”

Update

Crooks and Liars: It’s confirmed. Lieberman is still speaking at Hagee’s July CUFI Summit

McCain's Mini-Me Hearts Hagee

Man, when it comes to Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain, and his trusty sidekick, Mini-Me Lieberman, this stuff practically writes itself.

About a week after SB John finally was told that he had to dump the Hateful Hagee, with the latest reports surfacing on Hagee's account of how, actually, Hitler helped the Jews, Mini-Me Lieberman isn't ready to let go;

Max Blumenthal: Joseph Lieberman To Headline Upcoming Pastor Hagee Summit

And in light of all the recent rants on Hagee, this really shines for Mini-Me;

Last year, when Lieberman spoke at Hagee's summit, he compared the Texas televangelist to the biblical prophet Moses, dubbing him "an Ish Elochim," or "a man of God." Unless he rescinds his pledge to appear at this year's summit, Lieberman can be expected to deliver another soul-stirring tribute.

And Steven Benen, over on The Carpetbagger Report asks;

So, it’s not that Hagee loves Israel, so much as he foresees a blood-soaked war in the Middle East that leads to Jesus’ return, at which point the Jews who survive will become Christians.

Lieberman is not only comfortable with all of this, but is even willing to headline one of Hagee’s events?

Brad, from Sadly No, wonders "It’s Time We Redefine The Term, ‘Self-Loathing Jew,’ No?"

Phoenix Woman, on Mercury Rising predicts "This Should Kill Any Talk Of Putting Lieberman On McCain’s Ticket", giving some advice to Mini-Me Lieberman;

Hey, Joe: Last time I looked, Moses didn’t advocate establishing the Jews in Israel just so they could be the disposable caretakers of the staging area for the end of the world.

We keep telling you, this campaign is going to side-splitting fun!


Bonus SB John and Mini-Me Links

Steve Benen: Lieberman defends radical McCain ally John Hagee

Ben Smith: Hagee's apocalyptic support of Israel

Wonkette: John Hagee Loves Hitler More Than McCain!

J Street: Don't go, Joe!

Hagee Going Emily Litella On Us ...

"Wherever McCain goes, Lieberman is sure to show up ..."

No Intel Inside

Some of that dip on Wall Street has to be the result of Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman (freshly shipped from eBay) joining the John McCain Campaign.

I thought these two were among the brightest and sharpest woman executives?

Two of Silicon Valley's shiniest?

Actually, having Carly Fiorina on your campaign, getting intelligence on whomever shouldn't be a problem.

Not sure the other members of the campaign team aren't a litte nervous.

If you see them sweeping their telephones, or running outside to use the pay phone in the gas station or donut shop across the street, you'll know that Carly has them spooked.

But if she learned her lesson well from HP, then she'll be bugging the gas station and donut shop telephones as well.

Perhaps, getting the equipment on the cheap, from a certain on-line auction, that a certain new addition to the team has a bit of knowledge about will help.

But if they are seeking help, the call for such may be enormous.

Another piece of evidence on that there's No Intel Inside is the Maverick Man himself.

Here's Johnny Boy McCain should start booking himself to speak at footwear conventions, mostly due to he's had his foot in his mouth for the better of three days now

The hands down favorite phrase to come out of this so far is this;

"...Of course, right now I’m less worried about Bush the First and Bush the Second than I am our would-be Bush the Third, John W. McCain, a man who can’t seem to tell Shi’a from Shinola ..."

The Commander Guys' surrogate son flew off this week to Iraq, to, ostensibly, burnish his foreign policy credentials and, if what we have seen so far, send this guy to Summer School!

A correspondence course ... Flash Cards ... Something ...

Oops! He Did It Again: McCain Confuses Iran/al Qaeda Link In Speech Marking 5th Anniversary of Iraqi Invasion

McCain has, both verbally, and his campaign, in writing, has spoken of Iran training Al Qaeda operatives, then sending them back into Iraq to wreck the country, attack our soldiers and just commit overall terrorism.

Only, there a wee, little problem with that.

Iran, and the majority of Iraq, is Shiite.

Al Qaeda is Sunni.

Since Flyboy was in the Vietnam war, someone on McCain's Campaign should explain to him that, with what he keeps saying, it would be equivalent of the North Vietnamese wanting to send their soldiers to the USA, for training, to go back and fight in South Vietnam.

No way, Jose.

And then, just it case it does sink in, have a staffer stand by the Senator, in case he smacks himself upside the head too hard, that he falls over.

And this is the guy that Hillary Clinton placed ahead of Barack Obama as having passed the Commander-in-Chief threshold and will up-and-ready on Day One!

Holy Cow! ... I'd like to hear that telephone call at 3AM.

It will be a sin, if SNL doesn't run with that skit again, Hillary in mudpack and curlers, getting a telephone call at 3AM, only this time it's McCain, asking her, pleading with her, to explain to him the Shiite-Sunni thing.

In the news report, about McCain's trip to Iraq this week, it was stated;

In January he reaffirmed his support for the deployment of thousands of additional US troops in Iraq.

"When I raise my hand and vote to send young men and women, American men and women into harm's way and fight a war, I am committing to accomplishing the mission," McCain said, putting himself in stark contrast to Obama and Clinton who are seeking troop drawdowns from Iraq.

Yeah, Jesus, but can he tell them who the enemy is? Who they will be, or should be, fighting?

If he's this confused, eight-months before the election, and if he were to win, can we trust that he would even know what country to deploy the troops to?

The Garlic had previously stated that the Democrats could nominate and run the dead guy from "Weekend at Bernie's", and win hands-down in November.

It would appear that the Republicans have beat them to the punch.


Bonus Look-What-McCain-Said Links

Josh Marshall/TPM: Unfit for Duty

Cernig/Newshoggers: McCain As Ignorant As Dubya

Scarecrow/Firedoglake: Bush and McCain Have a Bad Hair Day

Media Matters: Media Firestorm Over (Repeated) McCain Al Qaeda Gaffe? Hardly

hilzoy/Obsidian Wings: Clueless

And, Today, Representing the "Clueless-They-Don't-Get-It" Team ... Senator Joe Lieberman!

It, kind of, makes you long for the old GE College Bowl, or some other game show, just to hear that introduction.

"And. Today. Representing the "Clueless-They-Don't-Get-It" Team ... Senator Joe Lieberman! ..."

Senator Joe Lieberman (R-I/CT) continued his relentless march towards total idiocy, commenting, as one of the 45 Senators that wanted to authorize torture, after the Senate defeated the bill, and hold our government to a standard for interrogations, sans the torture.

"We are at war," Lieberman said. "I know enough from public statements made by Osama bin Laden and others as well as classified information I see to know the terrorists are actively planning, plotting to attack us again. I want our government to be able to gather information again within both the law and Geneva Convention."

In the worst case scenario — when there is an imminent threat of a nuclear attack on American soil — Lieberman said that the president should be able to certify the use of waterboarding on a detainee suspected of knowing vital details of the plot.

"You want to be able to use emergency tech to try to get the information out of that person," Lieberman said. Of course, Lieberman believes such authority has limits. He does not believe the president could authorize having hot coals pressed on someone's flesh to obtain that information."

Emergency Tech?

Boy, the Rightwing Freakshow has certainly been busy, melting down the torture of prisoners into another Orwellian turn-of-phrase, sounding so noble, like you were moving heaven-and-earth to save someone!

Jeesh!

Hot Coals?

Perhaps he's still feeling grouchy, openly fantasizing what he could do to those in the DNC that that stripped away his Superdelegate status (you know, for abandoning the Democratic Party - Did you, Torturin' Joe, really expect to sit in Denver and vote for Obama or Clinton, after you come out and endorse Here's Johnny Boy McCain?)


Bonus Lieberman Lunacy

Attaturk, from Firedoglake: Thanks Connecticut

ThinkProgress: Lieberman Defends Waterboarding: It’s ‘Not Like Putting Burning Coals On People’s Bodies’

Marty Lederman from Balkinization: Lowering the Bar: Well, At Least We're Not as Barbaric as the Spanish Inquisition

Breaking News! Lieberman Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”; Post-Debate Bombshell - Lieberman Announces Plan C – Will Run In All 50 States; Hires Nader For ‘Underdog” Experience; Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”

Another "I Told You So" ... Lieberman Living Up To His True Colors

Boy, it just keeps going south, more-and-more ...

It was bad enough, the Rightwing and Freakshow calls for him to be the next Vice President - on a GOP ticket, but it appears that giant of fair elections, Senator Joe Lieberman (R&I CT), is taking steps to, perhaps, achieve such.

Today, we get;

Breaking News: Lieberman will endorse John McCain

And, from the Garlic's intrepid reporting, we had this scoop last year;

Breaking News! Lieberman Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”; Post-Debate Bombshell - Lieberman Announces Plan C – Will Run In All 50 States; Hires Nader For ‘Underdog” Experience; Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”

Jilting Joe does it again ...

Bonus Lieberman Links

Pluto Planning Run With Independent Solar System; Takes Cues From Lieberman, Who Says May Caucus With New Galaxy

And who can forget "The Kiss"

A Newly Meaningful Relationship?

Top Ten Cloves: Unexpected Things That Could Happen When You Pray For Rain

News Item: Georgians Pray for Rain ... Literally; Governor Leads a Prayer Vigil for a Rain Storm on Capitol Steps

10. You can't get the music from ''Les Parapluies de Cherbourg' out of your head

9. Bush Grindhouse suddenly finds missing emails

8. Vibe of the pray may be so strong, that French rail workers go on strike

7. Presidential candidates run fear-mongering, idiotic, terrorist television commercials

6. NFL quarterbacks are prone to throwing a lot of interceptions

5. Some asshole thinks Joe Lieberman should be the Republican nominee for Vice President

4. Stalkin' "M-Squared" Malkin and the Rightwing Freakshow calls for a War on Thanksgiving

3. Inexplicably, people dropping dead, stuck inside cat doors

2. Mothers of Presidential Candidates go about dissing the Mormons

1. Fox News gets sued (please, pray for a 40-day rain if that's what can happen!)

Retro Garlic - Life Imitating The Garlic ... Again!

Well, our motto is, after all, "All The Cloves Fit To Peel" ...

And, admittedly, you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to draw the analogy ....

In today's Washington Post

Is Feinstein the Democrats' Next Lieberman?

On The Garlic, 29 October 2007

Is Diane Feinstein Drinking From Joe Lieberman's Cup?

Before this session of Congress is completed, it's quite likely Feinstein will have a whole matching set of Lieberman cups...

Bonus Retro Links

Retro Garlic - Life Imitating Satire ... Again ... Iran Study Group

Retro Garlic ... Oh, Ed Henry, David Chappelle ... That's Sooooo 2005

Retro Garlic: Life Imitating The Garlic

Is she a San Francisco treat?

Is Diane Feinstein Drinking From Joe Lieberman's Cup?

Hmmm ... What is more stomach-turning, Joe Lieberman kissing The Commander Guy, or the prospects of Joe Lieberman and Diane Feinstein locking lips?

It seems that the Twinkie-Defense-Aided-Former Mayor, Senator from San Francisco may be beginning to drink from the Joe Lieberman Bush-Lovin' cup, courtesy of TeddySanFran over on FireDogLake;

Sunday Late Nite: Snakes on A Plane

She's well on her way of puckering with Joe when Good Ole' Boy Senator Trent Lott indicated he's going to "devote a chapter to the California senator in a future book on leadership."

Maybe Cindy Sheehan should readjust her sights a little higher.

Depressing and Disappointing Diane Links

Dianne Feinstein, symbol of the worthless Beltway Democrat

Hayden's Un-American and Incompetent, Feinstein's Betraying the Constitution, and Chait Needs a Civics Lesson

Senator Feinstein's Iraq Conflict; As a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms

The Tuesday Ticker ... Pithy Randomness ... Part of that "All The Cloves Fit To Peel" Thing

Hmmm ... Possibly, another beginning of a on-going feature ...

The Tuesday Ticker ...Pithy Randomness, from around the World Wide Web (and it goes to that "All The Cloves Fit To Peel" thing) ...

Grab a cup of joe and tick away ...

WOW! .... Really, WOW! ... Here's a jaw-dropper for you ...


Please fasten your seatbelts and place all trays in their upright position ... And please wait for the Captain to turn on the War Mongering sign before invading and occupying another country ...
















Ahhhh ... This must be that "Compassionate Conservatism" The Uniter Guy talked about way back when ...

Bonus Ticker

Joe Gandleman: Bush Administration Escalates War Against Middle Income Children’s Health Insurance (UPDATED)


Gee ... It seems it wasn't all that long ago, we'd have the CIA send a Black-Ops team to achieve this ...


Rhy Rofficer, R'I Rasn't Roing Rover Ra Reed Rimit
















"Should we smash their camera phones and slap'em upside the head too?


You Say Tomato ... I Say Tomahto ...


Updated/Bonus Tickers

Barry Crimmins ... With A Bullet!

"I Know Something You Don't Know ... I Know Something You Don't Know ..."

And, Let's Go To The Instant Replay On That Slam Dunk

We're Waiting, John Fund ... For You To Take Your Head Out Of Your Ass ... Lieberman Abandoned The Democrats To Run As An Indie, He Wasn't Forced To

Perhaps we can launch a new segment today for The Garlic, titled "Raging Cloves".

Just another slam against the blogosphere, as well as a gratuitous - and false - kudos to Senator Joe Lieberman (R&I - CT)

Last evening, on '''Real Talk with Bill Maher', during the panel discussion segment, WSJ Columnist John Fund put his foot in his mouth, or, better yet, was talking with his head up his ass.

With the topic of the conversation being the Republican Candidates Debate of last week, and Maher extolling on the truth that Ron Paul was speaking.

Fund than jumped in, saying it was a shame that the Republicans were trying to keep Paul out of future debates, to shut him out.

Fund then compared that, to "the netroots shutting out Joe Lieberman and that's why he had to run as an Independent ..."

What?

^{"...He had to run as as Independent?"}

Does Fund have some secret information to verify his statement, perhaps something swept up in the Bush Grindhouse's illegal wiretaps?

Does Fund have an "Alice In Wonderland Looking Glass' instead of regular television and internet.

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!

Senator Lieberman (R&I - CT) ran as in Independent due to he lost a primary election to a political novice, largely due to Ned Lamont embracing ending the Iraq Invasion and Occupation, while Lieberman chose to continue holding on tight to it, as well as hugging The Commander Guy Bush for a kiss.

The sitting and incumbent Senator ran in an election against a political neophyte and lost.

Lieberman abandoned the Democratic Party and ran as Independent at his own choosing.

Joe Lieberman wasn't shut out of anything. He ran in an election and lost. He wasn't denied anything.

(Editors Note: I don't have the benefit of either a transcript, or TIVO, however, the Fund quote is virtually verbatim, as best as I could remember it in the time it took to pick up paper and pen)

Bonus Links

Post-Debate Bombshell - Lieberman Announces Plan C – Will Run In All 50 States

Joe Lieberman's Run as an Independent is Bad for the Democratic Party, But Is it Good for Democracy?

The Irrelevance of Joe Lieberman

John Fund, This Cup of Tea Is For You!


This is what sealed Lieberman's (R&I - CT) fate, as much as anything else