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Friday, August 11, 2006
The Necessity of Calling Joe Out
Will prominent Democrats call Lieberman out on his attacks on the Democratic party? Not likely, thinks Colin McEnroe:
More McEnroe:
Both Ned Lamont's statement and Harry Reid's statement (representing all Senate Democrats) on the UK terror plot yesterday called for a "change in course" in Iraq. The type of action that Lieberman claimed would "strengthen" terrorists.
Joe Lieberman (Lieberman-CT) was attacking the Democratic party yesterday. Not just Ned Lamont (D-CT). It's time for Democrats to call him out on it, the same way they would call out Dick Cheney or Karl Rove.
Lieberman - by choice - is no longer a Democrat. He no longer deserves any protection or special treatment from his former colleagues in the party.
Time for Democrats like Hillary Clinton to put their mouths where their money is.
The senator is obviously wrong and out of line. His statement suggests he intends to run as a Cheneyist against his Democratic opponent. He has handed the Democrats an unsought and probably unwelcome opportunity to show us what they mean when they say they will support Lamont. Ordinarily, it would entail calling Lieberman's bluff. Will they? I say no.
More McEnroe:
Who were the London terrorists and what did they expect to accomplish by blowing up more planes? I don't know the answer right now, and I can promise you Lieberman didn't know either yesterday when he made his remarks. What's perpetually astonishing and sickening is the degree to which he doesn't care. He is so interested in scoring political points and in pursuing a strategy of shoot-first, think-later, that his remarks make Bill O'Reilly seem like a fairly sophisticated geopolitical thinker by comparison....
This is how Lieberman lost me: by trafficking in fear and by the chronic blurring of 9/11 and our Iraq policies.
Both Ned Lamont's statement and Harry Reid's statement (representing all Senate Democrats) on the UK terror plot yesterday called for a "change in course" in Iraq. The type of action that Lieberman claimed would "strengthen" terrorists.
Joe Lieberman (Lieberman-CT) was attacking the Democratic party yesterday. Not just Ned Lamont (D-CT). It's time for Democrats to call him out on it, the same way they would call out Dick Cheney or Karl Rove.
Lieberman - by choice - is no longer a Democrat. He no longer deserves any protection or special treatment from his former colleagues in the party.
Time for Democrats like Hillary Clinton to put their mouths where their money is.
posted by tparty at 1:54 PM 
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Last time I heard, we turned the corner on the War on Terra, turned the corner in Afghanistan and turned the corner in Iraq.
It looks like we're back at the beginning, back to where it all started.
With nothing to show for it.
Joe says stay the course. Do it all over again. Joe says if we do it all over again, the results will be different.
Joe didn't stay the course with the results of the primary. Joe says if he does it all over again, the results will be different.
It looks like we're back at the beginning, back to where it all started.
With nothing to show for it.
Joe says stay the course. Do it all over again. Joe says if we do it all over again, the results will be different.
Joe didn't stay the course with the results of the primary. Joe says if he does it all over again, the results will be different.
You fools, enery analyst is correct! Islamofascists want to destroy our way of life, and all they need to it are British sports drinks. There is only one thing that stands between the terrorists and the insidious British sports drinks, and that is Joe Lieberman.
The ultraconservative Royalists in 1776 were telling people to stay the course and support the king. However, there were agitators who thought otherwise:
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is in the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security."
For his servlie promototion of King George's corrupt agenda, Joe Liberman was sent packing.
If the Government will not do right by the people, the people will right the Government. It's called Democracy. If one doesn't like Democracy, in this country they are free to move to a Saudia Arabia, Pakistan or Dafur.
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"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is in the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security."
For his servlie promototion of King George's corrupt agenda, Joe Liberman was sent packing.
If the Government will not do right by the people, the people will right the Government. It's called Democracy. If one doesn't like Democracy, in this country they are free to move to a Saudia Arabia, Pakistan or Dafur.
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