
Joe-Nertia, indeed:
Connecticut party officials were particularly incensed when President Bush kissed Lieberman on the cheek following his 2005 State of the Union address. In meetings with state Dems, Lieberman tried to assuage their concerns, but also kept reminding party officials he had a 70% approval rating. Even so, the attacks on the kiss became so vocal that an exasperated Lieberman told one group of Democrats "I didn’t kiss him back," a response that didn’t exactly hearten them. (The incident has become so radioactive that Lieberman now denies Bush actually kissed him, telling TIME last week "I don’t think he kissed me, he leaned over and gave me a hug and said "thank you for being a patriotic American.") (emphasis mine)
The whining, the dissembling and the CYA never stop, do they? (Oh, and too bad for Lieberman that we’ve all got access to the pictures. Ooops.)
Here’s a word for the Lieberman campaign: ACCOUNTABILITY.
Feel the Nedrenaline, folks…
(PS — I hear from folks close to the Lamont campaign that there will be more news soon. Will bring it to you when I get it. You want to see what panic looks like — re-read that Joe-nertia quote from above: "I don’t think he kissed me, he leaned over and gave me a hug and said "thank you for being a patriotic American." Pathetic. No.one. is.buying.) (H/T to reader Ed*ard Teller for the heads up.)
Related posts:
- Early Morning Swim: Jane and Rachel Discuss What to Do about Joe Lieberman
- Rachel Maddow Redux: Dangers of Keeping Lieberman in Caucus (from November 2008)
- Early Morning Swim: Glenn Greenwald and Rachel Maddow Take Down Joe Lieberman
- The Continuing Adventures of Jesus II and his fan club
- Breaking: Lieberman-Graham Dropped From Supplemental





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Baa!
Ned, roots,fitz and FDL!
Ned! Russ! Fitz!
Looks like love to me. Tough guy love, of course.
Because your kiss, your kiss is on my lips.
Because your kiss, your kiss I can’t resist.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist either. :)
Here’s a word for the Lieberman campaign: ACCOUNTABILITY.
It burns! It BUUUURRRRNS!!!
R.G. Joe might have to take it on the lamb.
(punaise, help! can’t hold out much longer!)
I will them decide who is the butch, but that is definitely a kiss.
Photo caption bubble -
“About what happened last night, I ain’t no queer…”
Joe “No Reacharound” Lieberman.
Since I don’t read all the comments here all the time, this may have been mentioned already, but just in case it hasn’t, there is a C-Span 3 Democratic Policy Committee hearing today on the use of pre-war intelligence at 1:30pm EDT – 10:30am PDT.
For more details (witnesses, etc.) check out my ‘little’ diary over at DailyKos.
But that warn’t me! Okay, maybe that ware me, but that warn’t what it look like! We waren’t smoochin, we ware just – talkin. About manly stuff, like – guns, n bombs, n war, n cars n stuff.
R.G. Joe might have to take it on the lamb.
(punaise, help! can’t hold out much longer!)
Mutton can help ewe now.
He’s so used to kissing on the ass that he didn’t recognize the contact above the waste.
2,519
It’s a number. Just a number. The number of U.S. Troops killed in Iraq thus far.
18,359
It’s a number. Just a number. The number of U.S. Troops wounded in Iraq thus far.
0
It’s a number. Just a number. The number of U.S. Troops killed or injured in Iraq thus far by Saddam’s WMD.
http://www.bgladd.com/Just_a_Number.jpg
XOKgirl says
June 26th, 2006 at 8:51 am
He’s so used to kissing on the ass that he didn’t recognize the contact above the waste.
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Very cool little Freudina slip there. Nice.
damn…waist
Why don’t I preview? Why?
He’s so used to kissing on the ass that he didn’t recognize the contact above the waste.
And as we can see, sometimes the ass kisses back.
Freud wasn’t much to look at, but that Freudina, rrowwr! She can study my id any time.
you guys make me laugh every day …. thanks
Yeah, I simply gotta start off the day with a lame typo. Jeesh.
blue e at 20 — we try. *g*
Bush’s face = wasteland. So true.
BobbyG, did you mean to feminize “Freudian” or are you having keyboard dyslexia (an affliction I suffer from)? Either way, I like it.
‘We never ‘kissed’…But that epicene hunk of pretend populist patrician playboy touches me all the time where my bathing suit covers…and I like it!‘
;>)
Interesting: Looking at the photo, Bush closed his eyes when he kissed Leiberman. Must be TRUE LOVE. ;-)
hiya Christy, and GOOD morning!
JOE.
LIEBERMAN.
VICHY.
ENABLER.
I mean, what is there not to get about this?
Joe, if you really think it’s YOUR seat, then pull out some toilet paper and fucking WIPE OFF the little mess you’ve made all over it …
A tangent on nedroots, if I may.
There has been some wailing and gnashing of teeth that the DCCC and DLC aren’t supporting guys like Lamont.
At this stage, I DON’T WANT THEIR SUPPORT!!!
‘Their’ guys are guys like Lieberman – indistinguishable from Republicans – and who the hell needs more of them?
What it’s going to take is to get ‘our’ guys elected on our time, and on our dime.
Thennnnn, when the DCCC/DLC gets the message and is willing to support our guys, then and only then, am I interested in their support.
They aren’t going to have a ‘road to Damascus’ conversion (gosh, I’ve been wrong all this time!). They’re going to need a piano fall on their head – and nobody volunteers for that.
I wish it didn’t have to be that way, but it IS that way. So let’s give a hand shoving that piano out of the window. Gooooo, Ned!
Another point – I saw Timmeh say CT may be where the dream of bloggers is realized, and the limit of bloggers is also realized – in the context of Ned winning the primary, and Joe winning as an independent. Setting up a straw horse for us to ‘fail.’
We need to expect a brace for a combined political/media backlash. Uppity peasants are the last thing the dukes and cardinals want. They’ve already started a disinformation campaign on Markos because he’s gotten a little profile lately.
I like the action – when has David vs. Goliath failed to inspire?
Off to toil in the Kosmines; later, y’all.
In the Great Hall of Meaningless Qualification:
In the Clinton era it was, “I smoked but didn’t inhale.”
Now will it be “He kissed me, but I didn’t kiss back”?
Joe, if you really think it’s YOUR seat, then pull out some toilet paper and fucking WIPE OFF the little mess you’ve made all over it …
Toilet paper? Maybe he really is a Dem after all. If he were really a Republican he’d use the Constitution.
guys I keep thinking of the sheer idiocy of Lieberman speaking for Repubs last week – has someone already told this clown not to worry, the voting machine fix was in ?
crap! taskmaster is here
love y’all – catch ya on the flip
Is this what they call “Speaking Smooch to Power”?
I didn’t kiss him back.
But why is Joe smiling, then?
I’m off to do real work for a bit. But sometime someone is going to have to explain the Bush Handshake to me.
I don’t know people who shake hands like that – it looks very odd.
Last summer, Bush was in town and the newspaper published on frontpage a picture of him kissing our very Democratic Congresslady Carson. She was amused and says she might use it in her campaign: “Everybody loves Julia!” — I warned her that she could be the only real Democrat brought down by George W. if she dares to use the photo…
Darkblack #24:
I didn’t think ewe could top(per) last nite’s front pager, but ewe just might’ve with that one.
Lieberman: “Be still my heart – maybe I will be having tongue today after all! But gosh I wish I hadn’t had those onions on my sandwich today. Oh! Oh! He’s gonna kiss me…ohhhh, George, I’ll never be able to quit ya now…”
That picture makes me think Bush is a Joe-mosexual/
Maybe retitle the post “Joeke-back Mountain”?
Another photo caption bubble -
“…I can take about an hour on the Tower of Power, as Long as gets my little golden shower…”
- Apologies to the late Frank Zappa
Aren’t we relieved that that photo isn’t in Smell-o-vision? The sensory assault’s extreme enough already ‘thout their bad breath.
“Tonight, Joe… You bring your jockstrap and I’ll bring the poppers.”
OT– I have a sinking, horrible feeling wrt to the threat by Israel to conduct a major military offensive; I think things are going to get uglier very quickly.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/new…..672380.htm
and another stomach-churner:
TOKYO, Japan (AP) — Japan and the United States have agreed to deploy advanced Patriot interceptor missiles on U.S. bases in Japan for the first time, officials said Monday, amid concerns North Korea may test-fire a long-range ballistic missile.
BobbyG
Finally got SharonW’s song @ 5 out of my head. Thanks!
It’s the Rapture!
I hate thinking up good lines right as I click the Post button…
“Joe, it’s not fair for me to call it Joe-keback Mountain, because we DO know how to quit you.”
“I don’t think he kissed me.”
I dunno Joe. His lips look pretty puckered to me! Besides, Bush is The Decider, not you.
Ewe . . . just, ewe . . .
reposted link — secret agent lambkins snaps pix of Kobe in deep cover disguise, guarding the flock:
http://www.users.globalnet.co……/lambs.jpg
Master Kobe is busy today — preparing lambkins chops for dinner . . .
Whats the deal with the man crushs and Bush? These people are frightened that the are going to loose their “entightlement”
I come from an evangelical background when I was a teenager. And I gave that up a long time ago.
But the question pops into my head every now and then. Is Bush the anti-christ. His actions are almost always opposite of what he says they are, he has a position and power in this world that are unexplainable when you think about it. Or maybe it’s Cheny.
anyway,
Back to reality.
Old Joe Momentum should be drummed out of the party for countless reasons including the kiss he clearly relished. LOL!
“Men are the worst babies when it comes to love. Especially American men who have the worst time of all surrendering their precious egos. Because love implies a giving up of sorts, vulnerability, loss of power in one sense, the sense of self, of ego.”
Henry Miller, Big Sur, CA 1969
OT (as usual), but Howie ledes with Murray Waas for the first time I can think of.
If Joe goes down, the Vichy Dems will wail with consternation that their cozy setup inside the lobby/bribe circuit will be flawed.
“…So I went out ‘n bought me a leisure suit
I jingle my change, but Im still kinda cute
Got a job doin GOP promo
An none of the Dems can even tell Im a homo
Eventually me ‘n friend Georgie
Sorta drifted along into s&m
I can take about an hour on the tower of power
long as I gets a little golden shower…”
-Zappa
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush on Monday sharply condemned the disclosure of a program to secretly monitor the financial transactions of suspected terrorists. “The disclosure of this program is disgraceful,” he said…
_____
The disclosure of Valerie Plame’s identity by your administration was far worse, you dumb fuck.
“Thank you for being a patriotic American”…
No Mojoe deserves every stress-full moment of the summer primary campaign.
And hey, when he and the real Democrats are sucked into the Republican up-or-down vote on the flag amendment…Is your Best Buddy Bushie signing his autograph on our flag an act of desecration? Or does the boy king trump all? Just askin’….
Just vote “Present” on monkey business and use debate time to demand tending to the people’s business.
That photo seals it: time for a constitutional ammendment barring cross-party marriage.
And before you guys start insinuating, Joe didn’t swallow either! In fact, you may have notice that mumbling, slack-jawed quality his speech sometimes has. There’s just not always a spittoon when you need one.
Bilge…pLEASE leave brokeback out of this!
Joementum is just too toxic.
I hope RapeGurneyJoe washed up after that kiss, because, wasn’t that one of the nights Gannon didn’t sign out of the WH? Who knows who Jeffy had his lips on.
Hehehe
Perhaps Joe psychologically suppressed memories of the Bush kiss because such an experience would be so unpleasant.
Christy,
Some time ago I sent you a bunch of photos of Bush and McCain getting intimate. It’s amazing how many of them turned up on Google’s “image” search. Those guys get a whole lot of nookie in public….
“I didn’t kiss back”
Doesn’t that sound like something a 14 year old girl would have said in 1956 after having got caught in the wrong car at the drive-in?
just curious… but is jane coming to connecticut to help the lamonot campaign?
Franco 56
There were many nights Gannon did not sign out at the WH…..
Inquiring minds still want to know.
How, why or most importantly who was the object of his lip service…I mean affection .
The statements being made by Joe’s people are getting increasingly frenzied and far-fetched. They’re panicking, plain and simple. We’re getting to them.
Every single day they say or do something stupid. There’s more fodder for blogging than I can keep up with lately.
Pete, I think Jane is coming for the debate, but I haven’t heard from her since Saturday. I’ll email her again.
MoveOn.org is sending emails supporting Lamont. The No-Mo’-Joe-mentum is building….
1,192 DAYS AND THE KILLING GOES ON AND ON AND…
Joe Lieberman is the most recognizable symbol of the corporate consolidation of political power generally and the takeover of the Democratic Party establishment specifically that occured with the election of Ronald Regan.
The meme that had been advanced by the fascist noise machine since the late 60’s thru the National Review, the Wall Street Journal and the Time syndicate was that the country had turned to the right and repudiated the New Deal. The fascists began by taking complete control of the Republican Party after the Nixon failed coup…Joe Lieberman was an example of the fascists punishing and purgin’ those who had opposed Nixon (Lowell Wiecker). Insted of the Republicans becoming more moderate in the aftermath of the Nixon nightmare, the oil-cowboy nazis on the right won over the party from the old establishment east coast bankers. When Regan won, the Democrats left in Washington made a quiet accomadation with the big corporate donors and the emerging Israeli lobby.
This election year is not only a battle to put down the corporate Republicans but to purge the Democratic Party of the Republicrats that allow the Republicans to rule.
KEEP THE FAITH AND YOUR CHILDREN INDOORS, THIS IS GUNNA GET REALLY UGLY BEFORE NOVEMBER
more stomach churning from the aipac contingent:
via schumerwatch:
http://schumerwatch.blogspot.com
Sunday, June 25, 2006
First Hackett, now Lamont. Via this Kos diary from David Sirota, Time Magazine is reporting that Schumer is pressuring Lamont to drop out of the CT Sen race.
The money quote:
And Lamont says as recently a few weeks ago, even as he was investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into his campaign, Charles Schumer, the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, asked him to drop out. Schumer has told colleagues he thinks that if Lieberman lost the primary, it would send a bad signal to moderate voters and might hurt the party’s chances of winning Senate seats in places like Montana and Missouri in November.
Check out David’s diary. There are other links and more analysis.
And I’d add just one other thing.
Schumer told AdNags that the races were gonna be run from DC:
“We’ll give you money, but you have to hire a campaign manager, a finance director and a communications director who we approve,” Mr. Schumer said. “They have to toe the line.”
This is, of course, very ironic because Lieberman’s latest lame line is that he will not toe the line–that he is a man of principle, a message dutifully echoed by Anne Kornblut on Press the Meat today. If you’re for the war and you’re Bush’s favorite Republican, you’re principled. If you take a stand against this insanity, you’re toeing the blogger line.
pete at 60 — No, she’s going up to Connecticut to report on the primary for us. We’ve clearly had an interest in this campaign all along, and Jane wanted to be on the ground to get first-hand info. (and get away from her house for a bit after losing her mom) — this seemed like the perfect solution for both objectives.
CT Bob, Jane’s on the way, she checked in from Missouri last night. She’s travelling in easier stages for the poodles.
Bad shit may be fixin’ to come down…
______
“…Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert put the army on standby for a major offensive into Gaza…
…Olmert warned of a “comprehensive and protracted operation” after Sunday’s raid, in which gunmen from the three militant groups infiltrated from Gaza through a tunnel, killed two soldiers and carried off Shalit. Two attackers were killed.
Israel has vowed reprisals that could include the re-invasion of Gaza, a coastal territory it quit last year after 38 years of occupation, or the assassination of Hamas leaders.
Troops and armour have massed on Gaza’s borders. Israeli television broadcast footage of rows of tanks on the frontier.
“Let it be clear: We will reach everyone, no matter where they are, and they know it,” Olmert said in a speech in Jerusalem. “There will not be immunity for anyone.”
Top security officials are expected to meet again on Tuesday — a deadline set by Olmert’s inner cabinet — to discuss the military options if Corporal Gilad Shalit, 19, a conscript tank gunner, remains in captivity…”
If Jane’s driving and her westward route from CT will be I-94 thru Fargo…let’s do lunch.
Re the other WaPo-columnist-who-cannot-equal- Froomkin, who wrote about Murray Waass this morning: Well, Props to Murray! As a cancer survivor family we know how this becomes a life-altering experience. And reminds us that life is short, play hard, but most of all, make sure everyone’s quality of living is the best it can be.
I quit my sophomore college year to campaign for Gene McCarthy…this time I’m determined to see things turn out progressive. Small stones, day by day, we’ll move the mountain.
CT Bob 62,
repeated ridicule is a powerful political weapon….yes, I think we are having serious effect…
just look at all the pissy pants “conventional outrage” directed at us lately…
BobbyG
Finally got SharonW’s song @ 5 out of my head. Thanks!
Lucky you. It’s still stuck in mine.
BTW, Joe’s going out whole hog with full color mailers. I received two last week with different themes. One was a complete rehash of Lamont’s voting record likening him to a Repub.
Joe really doesn’t get it. I don’t think that tactic works as it only raises the specter even moreso that what we find so god-awful about him is his red streak. I find it offensive, but then again Lieberman’s been pretty insulting to my sensibilities for some time now.
BobbyG at 52 Thank you so much, that’s *exactly* what I was thinking when I saw that. You typed out my thoughts.
Prairie Sunshine –
Jane is driving from Oklahoma, not Oregon. She was in Missouri overnight, and will stop and check in from various points east over the next few days.
If these were a couple of Persian gentlemen, for whom kissing is no big deal, I wouldn’t think twice. But Shrub and Lieberschnitzel? Does all this kissing talk make anybody else’s stomach turn?
And no, I’m not going to say a word about Bush holding hands with the Saudi prince a couple of years ago. Not a word.
And of course, my video shows it indeed WAS a kiss (although, in all fairness, Joe looked like he was surprised by it!)
http://ctbob.blogspot.com/2006…..-kiss.html
close tag at#44
Christy – You have mail, with an attachment. With all this Bad JoeJoe posting going on, I felt it my patriotic duty (yes, patriotic duty) to once more send you my Lieberman masterwork.
;-)
Someday – a universe can dream after all.
Re: Prairie Sunshine’s invitation…when Jane heads west again, she’s welcome in Madison, WI for any meal or none at all…pumpkin bread will be served regardless.
Not one word, spaghetti!
http://benjoblog.weblogs.us/20…..di-prince/
I’m looking forward to the on the ground reporting from Jane. Great idea!
My reference was her westward trek from CT to Oregon…after the primary.
WH Briefing going on — C-Span1. And new thread.
So, in that picture, Chimpy is holding the Prince’s right hand with his LEFT hand.
I might be mistaken about this, but isn’t that supposed to be some kind of terrible insult to an Arab, to use your left hand to touch someone?
My first EPU in a while! LOL
If she’s up in New Hampshire (down near-ish to Nashua) Jane is welcome to stop by, I’d love to cook for her. (Or even just provide good bourbon or scotch for recovery)I’m sure I can get some sort of kibble for the dogs.
CT Bob — according to Billmon, if I recall correctly, men holding hands is a common expression of friendship in many Arab cultures (funny how that’s the one foreign culture W. knows how to behave towards, eh?) Since it isn’t really possible to hold hands with both using right hands, I have to conclude that using the left isn’t impolite. (Actually, if I remember correctly, eating and shaking hands with the left are traditionally our of bounds, but not using the left hand in general.)
Ned Lamont’s newest commerical, ‘Look Who Talking’
That picture should be splashed on billboards all over CT. Oh yes, they allow billboards in Connecticut. I pass by them all the time on I-95.
No words, just the the kiss.
http://www.outdoorbillboard.co…..ticut.html
“The EPU Zone”
Redshift, yeah I think that’s it; I’ve heard that some Arabs will cut off your right hand as a punishment, to force you to use the left to feed yourself. The left hand is normally reserved for “bathroom duty”.
AC, I like the new ad, but they’ve also got to get more NED out there, and fast. Probably they’ll ramp up the ads going into the debate.
OJ, I’ll mention this idea to some blogging buddies this week. We’ve got to be careful not to do anything that would embarrass the campaign.
How could Lieberman possibly forget receiving a big sloopy wet kiss like that in public? Is he suffering from Joementia?
I love the smell of your “Brut,” Mr. President.
I don’t know, I’m seeing tongue.
Joe-nutria: a highly destructive, ratlike pest.
If Jane’s going to Oregon on I-80, I’m about a mile from the interstate in Iowa City. My door is open.
Did our founding fathers take congressman and the executive smooching in public into consideration when they wrote the constitution?
oh lordy
Looks like W is offering Joe the tongue. That Merchant Marine kid is going to be so jealous.
Well, we’ll find out if that’s what the “kiss of death” actually looks like with the results of the Fall election. You know, it would have been so much better for Joementum if he was bald. Then Bush could have just rubbed his head. That would have been much easier to live down.