I truly never had any idea Lieberman could get to this strange point. He may be suffering from dementia or something. I guess he's just a Republican on the inside. I must mention, Go over to Crooks and Liars and check out (' Bush told Cheney to go after Joseph Wilson '!!!):

President Bush told the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case that he directed Vice President Cheney to personally lead an effort to counter allegations made by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson that his administration had misrepresented intelligence information to make the case to go to war with Iraq, according to people familiar with the president's statement.

Bush also told federal prosecutors during his June 24, 2004 interview in the Oval Office that he had directed Cheney, as part of that broader effort, to disclose highly classified intelligence information that would not only defend his administration, but also discredit Wilson, the sources said.

While you are at it, check out The Huffington Post HERE and HERE !!! A lot is going on that's way bigger than our favorite whipping boy!

Gosh, is there any doubt? It's his decision not to withdraw from the CT senate race in 2000. Had he withdrawn in August, Democrats could have put up another candidate, who would surely have won. Because he didn't, had Gore won, John Rowland would have been able to appoint the next Senator, who would surely have been a Republican (like Rowland.) And I will go to my grave believing that this public vote of no confidence in Gore cost the ticket votes; and in that race, obviously, anything that cost Gore votes mattered.

Speaking of 2000, I remember most un-fondly Lieberman's refusal to take Cheney on at that silly sit-down VP debate of theirs.  If there is any time to truly play hatchet-man, it's the VP candidate during one of those VP debates.

Instead we had Joementum cordially talking it over with Darth Cheney as if they were sitting down to Sunday brunch with each other.

Though this wasn't Lieberman's most egregious offense by any means, it certainly was harbinger of things to come.

This is far from his most egregious mistake, but it's always the first thing I think of when I think of Lieberman.

After the New Hampshire primary in 2004, Lieberman announced to his supporters that he was in a three way tie for third place in the primary.  Joementum, as we know, came in fifth.

Having been in the record business when Lieberman launched his censorship jihad against popular culture, my memories of the old hypocrite always go back to this magazine cover:

Trying to pick out my worst memory of Joe-Mo is like trying to remember which was the worst time I was ever shit on. All I can remember is the overall stench of him.

One of the formalities of the candidate nomination process at the national convention is to get signatures from delegates before the "prime time" television process. During the 2000 convention I spent as much time on the floor as possible - I'd show up and sit in the Missouri delegation (we had a great location - front and center, right behind Tennessee) just to soak up as much as I could. I'd end up listening to the early speakers (at one point we were asked to go sit in the Florida delegation so that the crowd cutaways for their local media could actually show a crowd listening and cheering the speaker from Florida). The (then) mostly empty Missouri delegation would attract temporary crowds from whatever state the speaker of the moment was from. I had some great conversations with delegates and officials from other states.

So, before the nomination of Joe Lieberman as the vice presidential candidate, during that sparsely populated early speech time, the paper pushers were circulating through the delegations to get the needed signatures. They wouldn't let me sign because they had enough signatures from male delegates - they needed more signatures from female delegates.

I have been ever so thankful for that twist of fate in these ensuing years...

denial"

That well publicized remark -- in response to Dean telling the truth that Saddam Hussein's capture (after Baghdad had already fallen) did not make anyone safer -- is when I truly began to hate Joe Liar-man.

Speaking of which: NOW who's "in his own spider hole of denial" when it comes to Iraq, Holier-than-thou Joe?

Sept. 3, 1998.  Sen. Lieberman's speech to the Senante.  His actual words:

"I have come to this floor many times in the past to speak with my colleagues about my concerns, which are widely-held in this chamber and throughout the nation, that our society's standards are sinking, that our common moral code is deteriorating, and that our public life is coarsening. In doing so, I have specifically criticized leaders of the entertainment industry for the way they have used the enormous influence they wield to weaken our common values. And now because the President commands at least as much attention and exerts at least as much influence on our collective consciousness as any Hollywood celebrity or television show, it is hard to ignore the impact of the misconduct the President has admitted to on our children, our culture and our national character."

Such righteous indignation about Clinton -- and a nothing but kisses for Bush.  Oh yes,  Bush never admits mistakes.  Is that why Jomentum doesn't criticize him?

Read it all, here: http://www.australianpolitics.com/usa/cl inton/impeachment/lieberman.shtml

From Joe's 2000 book "In Praise of Public Life" (found at a dollar store):
"In 1976, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Jimmy Carter came up with a wonderful one-liner insight about the relationship between the public and its elected leadership: The American people, he said, deserve a government as good as they are.
Nearly a quarter century later, the American people still deserve as much, and they still do not have it. But my life in politics tells me they are closer to it than they think."
If Joe really believed this in 2000, I don't see much evidence that he does today; ie his support for this administration & his own voting record.

In the Florida Recount Battle, Mark Herron of Gore's team drafted a memo that -- among other things -- gave guidance on how to challenge illegal military ballots.  

The GOP grabbed this issue and the regular suspects on Fox -- plus Chris Matthews -- went nuts.  The campaign panicked and send Lieberman on CNN to counter the problem.

As this Post story outlines, Lieberman was supposed to manage the problem and, presumably, demonstrate the Gore 2000 of course wanted to count all legitimate votes by soldiers abroad.  Instead, he freelanced and said "Al Gore and I don't want to ever be part of anything that would put an extra burden on the military personnel abroad who want to vote."  

This statement made it impossible for the campaign to challenge any of these ballots.  As one Gore top strategist said, this issue was "where the warriors and the nonwarriors separated."

My take is that Lieberman sold out Gore to protect his "strong defense" image.  He and Alex Penelas (the former Democratic Cuban Mayor of Miami Dade County who was chair of Gore's campaign in Miami Dade and who went to Spain instead of campaigning for Gore in the Cuban community) are the two big unsung villians of the 2000 Florida Recount.

Here's a Post story about the incident: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn /A4787-2001Jan30?language=printer

Going back to the Gore Liberian ticket....Gore riding on the tattered tails of Bill's indiscretions faced another challenge,  Joe Lieberman  "This guy Joe, he sounds very whinny" my 87 year old mother said.  "Why is he whining and nasal?  Not a good trait in any leader. Why did Mr. Gore pick him?  I think I won't vote for him."

Wow was that too bad.  Look what has happened.
Thank you Supreme Court for the damage you helped create.

In looking at Joe's 2006 Campaign Contributions, I came up with about 70 more reasons (from a PAC list of over 340) for wanting him gone.  From Banking, Investment Interests, Defense Interests, through Corporate Health Care Interests (big pharma too), through other Corporate Interests (including those who would profit by privatizing Social Security) who expect their investment in him (and others) to pay off big time.  This list also helps to explain some of Joe's positions.  Joe is one example in our own party, where the corporate whoring should be highlighted and stopped.  Anyway, I got this from Opensecrets.org and went through the excerise of typing out all the names.  I now need to talk to someone from my union, as they are on this list too.  You can see the unsorted list here:

http://opensecrets.org/pacs/memberprofil e.asp?cid=N00000616&cycle=2006&e xpand=Y00

But anway, see if you an find someone on this list that you don't like:

3M Co, Abbott Laboratories, Abrams Cmte, Accenture, Advanced Acoustics Concepts, Advo Inc, ADW Pac, Aetna Inc, AFLAC Inc, AFLCIO, Agri-Mark Inc, Air Products & Chemicals Inc, Akin, Gump et al, Albermarle Corp, Albertson's Inc, Allstate, American Assn of Nurse Anesthetists, American Beverage Assn, American Chemistry Council, American Council of Life Insurers, American Crystal Sugar, American Electric Power,
American Express, American Federation of Govt Employees, American Fen of St/Cnty Munic Employees, American Health Care Assn, American Hospital Assn, American Hotel & Lodging Assn, American Insurance Assn, American International Group, American Interventional Pain Physicians, American Resort Development Assn, American Sugar Cane League, American Sugarbeet Growers Assn, American Systems Corp, American Trucking Assns, American Veterinary Medical Assn, Americans for Good Government, America's Health Insurance Plans, Anteon Corp, Arch Chemicals, Arent, Fox et al, Areva Group, Arnold & Porter, Ashland Inc, Assn for Commercial Real Estate, Associated General Contractors, Assurant Inc, AT&T, Automotive Free International Trade PAC, Bacardi USA, BAE Systems Land & Armaments, BAE Systems North America, Bank of America, Bank One Corp, BankUnited Financial, BASF Corp, Baxter Healthcare, Bayer Corp, Bechtel Group, Berkley 2000, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Black & Veatch, Blank Rome LLP, Blue Cross & Blue Shield Assn, Boeing Co, Bond Market Assn, Boyd Gaming, BP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Brown, Rudnick et al, Buchanan Ingersoll, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp, BWX Technologies, California PAC, Calpine Corp, Capital One Financial, Caremark RX, Carpenters Union/New England, Cedant Corp, Ceisler Jubelirer LLC, CH2M HILL, Checkfree Corp, Chemtura Corp, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chiron Corp, CHRIS PAC, Chubb Corp, Cicago Board Options Exchange, Cigna Corp, Cinergy Corp, Cisco Systems, Citigroup Inc, Citizens Organzied PAC, Cmte to Elect Gary Ackerman, Coca-Cola Co, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Comcast Corp, Computer Sciences Corp, Connecticut Bankers Assn, Constellation Energy, Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, Credit Union National Assn, CSX Corp, Cubic Corp, DANPAC, Deloitte & Touche, Diageo North America, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Direct Marketing Assn, DLA Piper Rudnick et al, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Dominion Resources, Dorsey & Whitney, Dow Chemical, DRS Technologies, DuPont Co, EDS Corp, Eli Lilly & Co, Emerson, Ensign-Bickford Industries, Entergy Corp, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Equifax Inc, Exelon Corp, Experian Information Solutions, Express Scripts, Fannie Mae, Federal Express Corp, Fisher Scientific International, Floey & Lardner, Florida Crystals, Florida Sugar Cane League, Fluor Corp, FMR Corp, Freddie Mac, Fuel Cell Energy, Gastrointestinal PAC (GIPAC), General Dynamics, General Electric, Genesis Health Care, Genworth Financial, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, GlaxoSmithKline, Genetech Inc, Goodrich Corp, Grand Canyon Caucus, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Hardwood Federation, Harrah's Entertainment, Hartford Financial Services, Health Net Inc, Heineken USA, Hercules Inc, Hewlett-Packard, Hexcel Corp, HILLPAC, Hogan & Hartson, Holland & Knight, Home Depot, Honeywell International, Hope Fund, HSBC North America, Human Rights Campaign, Independent Insurance Agents of America, Infineon Technologies, ING Americas, International Assn of Fire Fighters, International Council of Shopping Cntrs, Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Invitrogen Corp, Ironworkers Union, Jazz Pac, John Breaux Senate Cmte, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Controls, Kaman Corp, Kindred Healthcare, KPMG LLP, L-3 Tital Group, Laborers Union, League of Conservation Voters, Level 3 Communications, Lehman Brothers, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Limited Brands, Lincoln National Group, Lionel, Sawyer & Collins, Louisiana for American Security, Magazine Publishers of America, Major League Baseball Commissioner's Ofc, Mallinckrodt Inc, Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Maxxam Inc, McGuire, Woods et al, MCI LLC, Mckenna, Long & Aldridge, Medco Health Solutions, Medtronic Inc, Mellon Financial Corp, Meredith Corp, Merk & Co, Metropolitan Life Insurance, MGM Mirage, MHW Americas, Michigan Sugar, Microsoft Corp, Minn-Dak Farmers Co-op, Morgan Stanley, Mortgage Bankers Assn of America, Mutual of Omaha, Nal Assn Real Estate Investment Trusts, NASDAQ Stock Market,  National Action Cmte, National Air Traffic Controllers Assn, National Apartment Assn, National Assn of Air Traffic Speacialists, National Assn of Broadcasters, National Assn of Chain Drug Stores, National Assn of Health Underwriters, National Assn of Letter Carriers, National Assn of Metal Finishers, National Assn of Postal Supervisors, National Assn of Postmasters, National Assn of Realtors, National Assn/Small Business Investment Cos, National Beer Wholesalers Assn, National League of Postmasters, National Machine Tool Builders Assn, National Multi Housing Council, National Pac, National Ready Mixed Concrete Assn, National Restaurant Assn, National Rural Letter Carriers Assn, National Stone, Sand & Gravel Assn, National Venture Capital Assn, Natl Assn/Insurance & Finance Advisors, Natl Cmte to Preserve Social Security, Natl Star Route Mail Contractors Assn, Nelson, Mullins et al, Nestle Waters North America, New York Life Insurance, New York Mercantile Exchange, NorPac, Northeast Utilities Service Co, Northern Californians for Good Govt, Northrop Grumman, Northwestern Mutual Life, NRG Energy, Nuclear Energy Institute, Occidental Petroleum, O'Neill & Assoc, Operating Engineers Union, OppenheimerFunds, PAC for Democracy, Painters & Allied Trades Union, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Paul, Hastings et al, People's Bank/Bridgeport, CT, Performant Financial Corp, Phonenix Companies, Pinnacle West Capital, Pitney Bowes Inc, Prairie PAC, Praxair Inc, Preston, Gates et al, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Principal Life Insurance, Printing Industries of America, Procter & Gamble, Professional Services Council, Property Casualty Insurers AssnAmerica, Prudential Financial, Pullman & Comley, Purdue Pharma, Qualcomm Inc, Qwest Communications, Raytheon Co, Real Estate Roundtable, Reed Smith LLP, Robinson & Cole, Rocky Mountain PAC, RR Donnelley & Sons, Sabre Inc, Salt River Valley Water User's Assn, SAP America, Science Applications International Corp, Searchlight Leadership Fund, Sempra Energy, Service Employees International Union, Shaw Group, Sheet Metal Workers Union, Siebel Systems, Solarz for Congress, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Southern Wine & Spirits, Southwest Airlines, SRA International, St Paul Travelers Companies, Stroock, Stroock & Lavan, Sugar Cane Growers Co-op of Florida, SunPac, Target Corp, Teamsters Union, TECO Energy, Time Warner, To Protect Our Heritage PAC, Tom Lantos for Congress Cmte, Troutman Sanders, UBS Americas, Union Pacific Corp, UNITE HERE, United Health Group, United Mine Workers, United Parcel Service, United Services Automobile Assn Group, United Technologies, United  Transportation Union, US Chamber of Commerce,
US-Cuba Democracy PAC, Ven-Pac, Verizon Communications, Vorys, Sater et al Wal-Mart Stores, Walt Disney Co, Washington Group International, Washington Mutual, Washington PAC, Webster Bank, Wellpoint Inc, Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, Wolf, Block et al, Women's Alliance for Israel, WR Berkley Corp, Wyeth, Xerox Corp, Yahoo! Inc, Zur

The most repellent image I have of ol' Joe is at the Washington correspondent's dinner when Bush said, with a nauseating attempt at humor, that he was looking here and there for weapons of mass destruction.  Leiberman was laughing heartily at this stomach-turning, caveman humor.