Login Here. A Kiss is Just A Kiss: Lieberman is now denying that Bush ever kissed him. "I don't think he kissed me, he leaned over and gave me a hug and said "thank you for being a patriotic American," he told Time Magazine. Bob Brigham provides some helpful instant replay of that fateful moment on the YouTube above. You be the judge.
. BFFs: House GOP member and Joe Lieberman boon companion (with whom he marched in the Waterbury Memorial Day Parade) was the only Rep from CT to vote for the hideous English-only amendment to the Voting Rights Act that went down in flames last week:
"I've never had a minority person say, `I can't read Nancy Johnson,'" she says with a smile.
Nancy probably doesn't have a lot of American Indians in her district. Nor, one imagines, would she care if she did. Lieberman's plans to bolt the party seriously threaten the campaign of her Democratic opponent, Chris Murphy, who takes issue with Johnson's indifference. Nice friends you got there, Joe.
. Mr. Conscience: Digby reminds us about what Joe Lieberman finds appalling. Blow jobs? Hell yeah. Torture at Abu Ghraib? Not so much:
On marital infidelity, Joe Lieberman, moral conscience of the Democratic party, is uncompromising. On torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners he sees shades of gray. From where I sit, Joe Lieberman's failure to publicly and resolutely condemn this torture regime, (much less vote to reward those who instigated it) puts the lie to his claim to moral superiority and personal integrity. A man who cannot see unequivocally that torture is wrong cannot be a moral leader. I resent the fact that he seems to believe that he's entitled to the benefits of that reputation when he has proven he is actually little more than a puritanical sexual scold --- on the big moral question of the day he has fallen very, very short.
Lieberman was quick to leap to Rumsfeld's defense when the Abu Ghraib torture photos appeared, and accused Democrats of trying to "politicize" the situation by calling for a Congressional investigation. As I recall it all played rather well on Fox news.
. With Friends Like That: The devastating NYT article that paints Lieberman as a frail, withering political husk includes a quote from Lanny Davis: "Joe Lieberman has never been subjected to this before." As Thom Schaller writes, "It's not like he was out of the country when Clinton was fighting off the GOP hate machine." More at the Gadflyer. Maybe Davis needs a stint on Wingnut Mail Bag?
. More Hillsman: Ned Lamont's latest radio ad (MP3):
Joe Lieberman is potentially hazardous to anyone who drinks water or breathes air. For details, consult the Bush-Cheney Energy Bill. Avoid Joe Lieberman if you are elderly or run a risk of future elderliness. He voted to raise the Medicare age to 67 and to enact co-pays and income requirements. Joe Lieberman may lead to privatizing Social Security.
Bill Hillsman may be persona-non-grata in DC establishment circles, but his irreverent ads that worked so well for Paul Wellstone, Jesse Ventura and yes, Arianna Huffington certainly suit Ned Lamont's "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" persona. Ned's Messy Desk ad has been viewed over 135,000 times on YouTube.
. Toxic Joe: Shorly before Lieberman arrived at a barbecue being held in his honor by several unions, state Attorney General Richard Bluemethal took off like a bat out of hell. Was it fear of being caught on camera with Joe, or the presence of the ever-popular Kiss float driving up and down the street (at least before the police helpfully showed up)? The "other pressing engagements" excuse he gave as he headed for the hills was somewhat less than convincing. (Spazeboy was there and has more.)
(photo by CTBlogger)
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Fitz!!!! Jane! Ned!
and again! been so long!
all them bookreading geeks downstairs…just me
ok, off to read post
Hottest Day Ever.
But I found some pictures on the UPFFA site–a Firefighters union beat bloggers to the punch with photos.
I posted them to my blog, sunburnboy.net
Joe’s lying, of course.
Bush leans in, gives his peck, and backs off all in less than 2 seconds. Not even close to enough to time to say “Thank you for being a patriotic American.”
Roots!!
spazeboy, DID you take the evening off?
that’s A GREAT RADIO AD! I think it will play especially well with older folks.
Somebody needs to do an ad like that which helps union workers to think for themselves rather than with their decrepit leadership that has helped drive down union membership in this country past the point of no return.
Sbabe, you feeling better?
Did you see the little ones?
I was just reading Michael Schiavo’s diary over at Kos and was reminded of Lieberman’s support of all that lunacy. I hope Ned and his campaign are reminding CT voters about that sorry little vignette in Lieberman’s distinguished career.
“You must remember this, a kiss is but a kiss” Hey Fredo, get a room!
The gossip mill has it that “it” actually went further than a kiss. So Joe, are you telling us not to rely on what we see, but believe what we are told instead? Tsk, tsk. Time to “come-out” boys. There’s really no shame in it anyway. Like…who cares? It’s NOT germane.
George Bush’s followers embrace nationalism, concentrating power in the executive branch at the expense of the legislative body, heavy corporate influence in government, fundamentalist religion instead of science.
In other words, they are fascists.
Given the history of the last century, a Jew embracing a fascist leader is shocking, to say the least.
Like…who cares? It’s NOT germane.
You don’t think Joe could be considered a good germane?
egregious @ 8
I took last night off. Lots to sort out, CT is turning into a bit of a pressure cooker if you know what I mean. Days like today, I feel completely out of my league.
Put another way though (cognitive behavioral theory), I’m just ahead of my time. :)
A read of “Your Daily Ned” is like a ray of sunshine. Hugs and kisses, and thanks for being patriotic Americans.
he leaned over and gave me a hug and said “thank you for being a patriotic American,”
Effin bullshit. Chimpy, being the biggest closet case in American political history, cannot resist acting out. Especially with the likes of Joe, who has been his most special Monica.
Jane I’m so glad you’re in CT and putting your whole life and so much of our attention into Ned race. Joe and the whore-everything he embodies is going down, and we/something new are making it happen. I want to not only put Joe out to pasture, I want to THROW SOIL on the political class he embodies…
Effin bullshit. Chimpy, being the biggest closet case in American political history, cannot resist acting out. Especially with the likes of Joe, who has been his most special Monica.
My God, just imagine if Joe were bald…
Spazeboy: I love that phrasing — NAFTA/CAFTA Lieberman ! As a former UAW member in Indiana, such namecalling I can relate to …
he leaned over and gave me a hug and said “thank you for being a patriotic American,”
So a rhetorical kiss from W. is supposed to be less offensive than a physical one?
People wouldn’t care if Bush had a public snogfest with Lieberman, as long as Lieberman was on the right side of the issues.
*ilson46201 @ 20
wish I could take credit for that, but I fell in with a pretty good crowd today who reminded me that in 1993 while I was gearing up for 6th grade (actually, that’s the year I moved from Iowa to Oregon), Joe Lieberman was gearing up for NAFTA.
Do you mean… like in good germane chocolate cake?
Spazeboy, me, DeanFan84, CTKeith and CTBlogger were all there, Jon drove the float. Joke Line was there, and it was rather sad — all the folks holding the union signs were the usual LieberYouth, the union turnout was pathetic and all the speeches were built around “well, nobody agrees with anyone 100% of the time.” Nobody brought up the word NAFTA. I don’t know who was sorrier, Lieberman or the union bosses who had to cook up a reason to stand behind him.
People wouldn’t care if Bush had a public snogfest with Lieberman, as long as Lieberman was on the right side of the issues.
Yes; it was the physical, visual manifestation of what Joe has been doing for the past 5 years.
OT submission for consideration for a future book salon: Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean. I’m maybe 20 pages in and already I think this may be one of the most important and chilling things I’ve read about the state of contemporary American politics. We can’t unseat the authoritarians without first understanding (and exposing) the mindset of the authoritarian followers.
Four stars. Chris Bob says check it out.
egreg - i drove and drove and found the goats new home, when near started crying and couldn’t stop. sheez, when will I get over this silly shit? anyway saw where they are, and looks very excellent. crying is just some shit between me and me I guess.
Spazeboy, you are SO ahead of your time. Take whatever rest/timeoff you need in order to keep up your creativity, because the entire civilized world is depending on your work. No pressure right? :D
Seriously, when you can work that’s great, and when you need to rest, do it. More important to have you intermittently and brilliantly. Works for me. At least that’s my justification for spurts of brilliance and then periodic flaming out.
I totlly heart spazeboy!
If today was any indication, the state of labor in this country is abjectly miserable. I got into an argument with the AFL/CIO guy who wanted to know why we were going after Joe and didn’t go after Teddy Kennedy. Because we’re in Connecticut, at a barbecue for Joe Lieberman, and you’re with the CT AFL/CIO? Then he started bragging about how much pull he had in Massachusetts politics. Spazeboy got it on tape but it’s all just too fucking sad.
sharkbabe can see right through W’s persona:
“Chimpy, being the biggest closet case in American political history, cannot resist acting out. Especially with the likes of Joe, who has been his most special Monica.”
The more I watch Bush when he’s in a compulsive situation, the more I can see sharkbabe’s premise as being one which can explain a helluva a lot. Connecting the dots? Maybe punaise has a better “connecting the _?” image for us?
scarecrow, KathrynMA and I spent the afternoon in CT canvassing and calling for Ned. A few observations.
1. the people on the campaign team didn’t know about FDL and Jane—another reason to believe that it isn’t the bloggers that are fueling the Nedmentum.
2. Lots of the doors we knocked on were not the addresses of the people on our lists. Inaccurate lists are going to be a problem for us.
3. Phone calls made (when it was clear that it really was too hot to be going door to door) were mostly to people not home but those who were weren’t likely to talk about who they wanted to vote for.
4. Labor—a few no Ned calls were because of a perception that Ned is anti-labor. That has to be corrected.
and 5. The best call of the day. A family with 3 sons. We knocked on the door, one came and answered it. He was talking with his mom on the cell phone. We introduced ourselves and he told his mom, “Hey mom, there are folks at the door working for Ned Lamont You’ll want to talk with them!” He put her on speaker phone to us. Her third son is in Afghanistan. She is a Ned supporter and said that if anyone declares they are not a one issue voter they are lying. She’s a one issue voter and the issue is the war. There was a little red white and blue flag in her window with one blue star on it.
We returned with 2 lawn signs and got their contact information. Though mom and dad are on vacation, they will be volunteering for Ned when they get back.
That was what our day was like.
Sharkbabe,
And why would crying be a bad thing? You have us crying over the bond between you and these lovely creatures. It is a measure of the deep love you have for living beings. It’s part of who you are, and a very good part.
I’m part Cherokee and all over the bond with all living beings/horse whisperer stuff.
Seeing them in a happy new home will gradually make you feel better about THEM, but will not so much ease YOUR grief. I hope you will continue to visit them often. Do consider this idea of living somewhere new, where you can have creatures around you, ‘k? I sense it is necessary for your fundamental happiness.
Rooting for you, btw my earlier post to help you cheer up was my first non-starred use of f***, just to make you smile…
er, totally
RevDeb — I just got home, I’m so sorry we didn’t connect. And no, absolutely nobody knows who I am and I don’t tell them. Suits us all.
Oh one of Lieberman’s people threw me off the lawn for trying to talk to the Attorney General. Then they came up and told CTBlogger it was illegal for him to put videos of the people holding Lieberman signs on the internet without a release, because they weren’t public figures. That’s just out-and-out bullshit. They’ll say anything. If there’s a lie they won’t stoop to, I haven’t seen it yet.
OT:
When is the next Libby hearing? It seems like we have not heard anything about Fitz and the current grand jury or the Libby case in weeks.
Why?
egregious, what wonderful comfort thoughts/lovely words, thank you so very much
now back to destroying Cheney junta :)
RevDeb 33:
I salute you. You’re a great American. Precinct walking is hard work. I hope you rewarded yourself with cold frosty drink.
Jane, while you went down to get some water (thanks!), the man who started in about Ted Kennedy (pictured here, at left) took the podium and talked about his conversation with you. I don’t think I got that on tape, but he basically restated his side of your conversation, emphasizing that he’s been working in the trenches and where the hell have you been.
I thought bloggers were world-class a-holes. ;)
Jane,
Still planning to come down Thurs. night. Will keep in touch about it.
We did show the campaign workers the web site and picked up a new person for the Roots group in MA. She had driven down from Arlington on her own.
http://www.fcnp.com/619/benton.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....earch=bush cheney condi
Jane,
You just need to know that a lot of us out here are deeply appreciative of what you are doing in Connecticut. Take consolution in the knowledge that the main stream media are now paying attention to what people in the Progressive Blogosphere are saying.
Keep up the great work!!!!!
basic law: you may photograph anybody in a public place without their permission —- the images cannot be used however for “commercial speech” without release: this means ‘advertising’.
it’s a sign of true weakness when the Joe-know-nothing Team is afraid of their volunteers being photographed…
I cannot comprehend that Joe Lieberman and I are members of the same political party. It’s really weird. Kinda strange too. Lieberman is like a very bad toothache you want so very much to be rid of.
RevDeb
Keep up the great work! Hopefully I’ll see you (and everyone else) Thursday.
We really didn’t do that much. Dialing numbers that didn’t answer ain’t heavy lifting , but I guess someone had to do it.
I’d really really like to know what the polling is showing. Been a long time since we’ve seen any numbers.
Jane -
Your points of argument w/Union guy are certainly all valid ones.
I would, as a fan and constituent of Mr. Kennedy would also compare voting records…to wit: Alito cloture is one that comes to mind quickly. I’m certain there are others. (I’m thinking/hoping maybe Ted might have better cred Labor-wise, but don’t quote me.) Not that it matters, just my deuce on the table.
And commendations for the Kiss Float…musta been quite a sight!
AND commendations to the MA contingent of Lamont volunteers! Good on you, folk! Thanks!
ads related - called my mom in New Haven last night and she was raving about all the Lamont ads and how great they are … esp the messy desk one - it really hit home!
on voter lists - the town/city voter registrars are supposed to correct them yearly (and people get paid to do just that - walk the districts and check on names, addresses, etc) - CT has had a not great history on voter rolls and that makes it hard for both sides (unless Joe is getting updated lists and Ned is not - something that’s worth checking carefully)
Spazeboy 40 — I guess if you are not a big union leader selling out your own members you are not entitled to an opinon on Holy Joe. Us girls should just shut up and take a Midol once again, I suppose.
Lemme know when you get that tape of him blowing up (people with big egos just forget the camera is rolling after a while), I’ll be sure to get it in the hands of a really, really good editor.
I am convinced that Bob Novak is keeping quiet about Karen Highes, little miss Proper Gander.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Hughes
She left the Bush administration in July 2002 to return to Texas, but remained in daily contact with the Bush reelection campaign by telephone and e-mail, and spoke personally with Bush several times a week. In 2002, Hughes was a member of the White House Iraq Group. She has been described by The Dallas Morning News as “the most powerful woman ever to serve in the White House”, and by ABC News as Bush’s “most essential advisor,” and remains one of the major voices of the Bush campaign.
SUMMER, 2003: WHIG MEMBERS REUNITE TO DEFEND THE IRAQ WAR
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Whig Members Reunite To Back Up Their Faulty Intelligence. During the summer of 2003, Hughes and Mary Matalin joined Dan Bartlett in formulating a strategy to pushback on general questions about the White House’s credibility over its handling of the Iraq war. “The plan: Release all relevant information. Try to shift attention back to Bush’s leadership in the war on terrorism. Diminish the significance of that single piece of iffy intelligence by making the case that Saddam was a threat for
many other reasons. Put Republican lawmakers and other Bush allies on TV to defend him. Most important: Question the motives of Democrats who supported the war but now are criticizing the president.” [New York Times, 10/21/02; USA Today, 7/24/03,]
http://www.democrats.org/a/200.....line_o.php
Jane:
I’m glad you’re in Connecticut helping. Without you striing the pot, it would’ve been a different kind of NYT article.
I only wish I could come and meet you, but my work schedule doesn’t allow me to drive to you guys on Thursday.
I hope that you’ll have another one before August 8th.
Keep up the good work and this blog!
Jane and spazeboy,
I took a few video clips of the house with the blue star flag and scarecrow putting the lawn signs in. If I can figure out how to download them and e-mail the files to you maybe they will be useful. ? ? (new video camera, don’t know how to use it well yet)
In Indiana, any politician who supports NAFTA/CAFTA is totally toxic to unions and no labor leader could possibly consider endorsing such a creature — it’s significant that the main sponsor of the “labor rally” in CT would be the FireFighters who are not directly affected by NAFTA/CAFTA — a fire in Bridgeport isnt going to be fought by outsourced labor from Cancun or Beijing!
Kludge,
are you in MA?
Jane @ 50
I’m transferring the video right now, and I’ll have a DVD for you as soon as tomorrow or Tuesday.
I’ll get in touch with you tomorrow. For now, I’m going to spend some time with the most wonderful woman in the world (watching a documentary on coroners–eww!).
I’ll be back if Channel 3 airs any video or a story from Lieberman’s event today.
Off to bed - Jane spazeboy everybody godspeed
Great radio ad — that’ll work, make commuters laugh in their cars about Joe. Laughter IS the best Ned-icine!
Hey RevDeb, great report, sorry y’all got overheated. What’s up with the sorry lists, do they come from the party?
Blue Star Moms for Ned!
RevDeb -
Yep. But way west of Big Dig. Pioneer Valley. No car. Neal in Congress; FWIW.
Love you Ed T
night all
And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead [him] away safely.
BK
Can we get you into the Rootz and start up a group for the 02 Cong. dist? We do want to cover the whole state. And I love the Pioneer valley. We may even invent a reason to come out to you.
Personally, I find this:
“I don’t think he kissed me, he leaned over and gave me a hug and said “thank you for being a patriotic American,” he told Time Magazine
more offensive than the Kiss, though the denial of it is also insulting.
Reminds me of when I called Ken Salazar to complain about his support for Abu Gonzalez, a very snotty staffer told me that the Senator considers himself an American first and a Democrat second. This has the same implication, IHMO.
and RevDeb you so rock
ok goodnight really
re:AFL/CIO guy…
Union support for Lieberman sort of reminds of how the “hard-hats” went with Nixon. And that was during the time of another illegal war. Vietnam. Don’t the AFL/CIO people supporting Lieberman understand that every vote for Joe, because of his close association with the DLC, means another vote against labor, and therefore themselves? And I don’t care a snit about Lieberman’s propaganda proclaiming his support for labor. Labor has lost huge under Bush and Joe.
come to think of it: it is really peculiar why GWB stopped at Lieberman and kissed him at the SOTU, knowing full well that all eyes in the Chamber and TV were on him. This was so incredibly obviously public that GWB was trying to send some kind of message…
Things sound like they are really getting exciting on the Lamont side, while Lieberman is faced with daily news articles that read like obituaries…the NYT article was reprinted in my Sunday paper, and it should have come with audio of a funeral dirge. I think the media vultures smell death, and are circling the area, hungry for carrion.
The Tom Schaller “Gadfly” post re: Lanny Davis’ comments, was dead on. Schaller does great political commentary - have been listening to him for years on one of our local radio stations, where he is one of the very few Democratic voices on an otherwise pretty right-wing station.
Way to go to all of you working to get Ned elected!
You’re right, *ilson; it’s not like he was doing Joe any favors there, and I don’t think he had any reason to want to sabotage him, given the lack of a credible Republican challenger in CT.
Wilson: You are right wrt the kiss! It was meant to show Americans tuned in that Democrats were united with him on this.
RevDeb-
I knew that already. (I’m not as dumb as I look.) ;->
Lemme look at the ol’ ‘8-Ball’ and see what the answer is…
“Intriguing” - who could have imagined?
email:
blank AT coolmac DOT every1 DOT net
note: that’s ‘everyONE’ using a digit…
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that’s the shoephone-style emergency hatch email.
Always a politician never a president.
Jane,
What was that “deal” wrt the police showing up and the Kiss float?
It sounded from Spazeboy’s blog as if it got shooed away.
Didn’t know that CT has unique traffic laws for Bush hearts Joe floats.
OK 65 — Don’t the AFL/CIO people supporting Lieberman understand that every vote for Joe, because of his close association with the DLC, means another vote against labor, and therefore themselves? And I don’t care a snit about Lieberman’s propaganda proclaiming his support for labor. Labor has lost huge under Bush and Joe.
They were indeed patronizing, cynical assholes. They had no defense for their endorsement other than screaming “he has an 85% voting record” like that meant anything at all. I talked with Bill Henderson, the head of the Communications workers (1298) who were giving Ned a hard time and saying he’s anti-labor (what RevDeb referred to above).
He kept trying to say his union was endorsing Joe through November, and I knew that wasn’t true, they had only endorsed him through August. So when I pushed, he finally admitted HE was supporting Lieberman through November, and this was his quote about his union members, and I shit you not, I asked him to repeat it six or seven times and CTKeith was there as God is my witness:
“As their leader I’m telling them who I support and why I suppport Joe Lieberman. But they will not be asked.”
After I sat there indredulously asking him to repeat himself for a while, saying “you mean you really have no intention of putting this up for a membership vote,” he finally acknowledged that this might be a good iddea.
To say I am not holding my breath would be an understatement. It was absolutely, thoroughly disgusting.
Mad Dogs 72 — yes the cops showed up *coincidentally* just after Holy Joe did. The cop was SCREAMING at Keith. Spazeboy ran over with the camera or I do believe, as Spazeboy noted in his blog post, things would have gotten much much worse. That cop was very conscious of that camera.
about the cop hassling the Kiss-Float: if the FireFighters Union called about a ‘troublemaker’, a local policeman might very well go above and beyond the call of duty to help…
Well, after all, why should we expect unions to be any better than Planned Parenthood or NARAL?
Sigh.
ccmask @ 51
It’s so shocking to read in black and white that they treat this fuck up of a war as just another blip negatively impacting the bottom line. It’s all about the message, baby!
Ugh these guys make me sick.
And about Joe, I too take a very dim view of marital infidelity. You make your vow, you stick with it in my books or you lack honour. But, what Clinton did was an issue between him and his conscience and him and his wife.
As a famous prime minister of our own said “The government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.” And if you take that literally and can’t apply it to Clinton I’d say you aren’t a regular reader of this blog.
As a little blog whore, check out my latest article on my blog The Next Agenda. It cites an article by Robert Fisk on just how prepared Hezbollah was for Israel’s pushback.
Jane, it really does sound like Joe has “The System” in CT at his beck and call. Is he, like, the mayor of Connecticut or something?
Senate Dems who (unlike Joe) voted against CAFTA–
Dodd
Clinton
Schumer
Kennedy
Kerry
Reid
Boxer
Leahy
Reed
Obama
Durbin
Salazar
Biden
Bayh
Landrieu
Harkin
Corzine
Lautenberg
Mikuslki
Sarbanes
Levin
Stabenow
Baucus
Conrad
Dorgan
Johnson
Rockefeller
Byrd
Feingold
Kohl
Bingaman
Akaka
Inouye
And CT Labor stands beside Joe?? WTF?
I think Michael Berube’s takedown of Joe on the torture point (way back in May 2004 woo-hoo!) remains an example of blogging at its best:
http://www.michaelberube.com/i....._probrium/
After watching the video again, Joe wants us to believe that during the kiss of death, amid all the hand clapping, Bush slid in a “thank you for being a patriotic American…”
Anybody have a way to find out how is california reality check/c_r_c?
The unions and the national choice groups supporting JoMo is just the most stinking rotten disgusting heartbreaking evidence of the power of incumbency. And from the sound of today’s business, habit.
“we’ve supported him before and if we don’t know it’s like admitting we were wrong.”
Bionic: Did you ever read Karen’s list of rules….Here’s #2
Rule #2: Use what’s out there. You are always on sure ground if you use what the President,
Secretary Rice, Sean McCormack, or any USG spokesman has already said on a particular subject. I always read recent statements by key officials on important subjects before I do press events. My Echo Chamber messages are meant to provide you clear talking points in a conversational format on the ‘hot’ issues of the day. You never need clearance to background a journalist though you should
certainly pay careful attention to how your comments may be used.
For a numbered list of her rules, here’s one link:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs.....?pid=50064
spazeboy at 16 Days like today, I feel completely out of my league.
Au contraire, you ARE the new league. The rest of the world will have to catch up with YOU.
You’ve got something really good cookin’. We await your future genius.
The unions and the national choice groups supporting JoMo is just the most stinking rotten disgusting heartbreaking evidence of the power of incumbency.
And of the lack of integrity in those organizations. Can anyone see the NRA giving someone a pass for stabbing them in the back?
RevDeb - were you in Bridgeport? I sp
I had lunch with an old friend today who happens to now live in Connecticut. His wife and her family are actually from the state. He said they refer to Sanctimonious Joe as “Whinerman” and there was no way in hell anyone would be voting for him. Take this as anecdotal evidence from regular voters that Lieberman has worn out his welcome.
And it would seem the kiss float is getting under his skin. Why else does Lieberman feel a need to issue public statements on the actual kiss? If it were as insignificant as he claims he shouldn’t be trying to explain it away. I hope the kiss float travels every mile of road in Connecticut. Twice. Haha.
Spazeboy:
Re JH at 74 Mad Dogs 72 — yes the cops showed up *coincidentally* just after Holy Joe did. The cop was SCREAMING at Keith. Spazeboy ran over with the camera or I do believe, as Spazeboy noted in his blog post, things would have gotten much much worse. That cop was very conscious of that camera.
AND THAT IS ‘ZACTLY what I’m talkin’ about. You’re the new thing.
Oh and they had to go tell all the LieberYouth holding the Labor for Lieberman signs (none of them would answer whether they were actually in labor unions or not when CTKeith showed them his union card) to cheer on cue when Joe showed up.
We all laughed amongst ourselves, knowing nobody would have to tell Lamont supporters to cheer.
Part of the problem is Joe is not announcing his public appearances while Ned most certainly is. Joe only wants canned audiences, but he winds up with pathetically small crowds. There were only a handful of people there and maybe — maybe half of them were union members.
CTKeith and DeanFan84 say that Blumenthal is one of the most popular politicians in the state. He ran from Holy Joe like he had fucking typhoid.
Let’s just say that efforts were made to insure that all the press who arrived with Holy Joe knew about the Blumenthal flight before they left.
Jim at 83;
You’re 100% correct. That’s why I hope that Connecticut Dems will show them a new way of thinking in this primary.
*xyz
We were in Willimantic. Closer to MA.
My thinking is this: Joe is supposed to be representing the people of the State of Connecticut. Yes, he has a right to his views, and the voters have the right to choose whether they want someone with his views representing them. Clearly, this has not been a problem for Joe for the last 18 years.
To my mind, Joe had a responsibility to check in with the people of CT to make sure that he was accurately representing them on key issues like the war, and abortion and Plan B and a host of other issues. Some might argue that in trying to represent all of the voters, he might have to take a stand on some issues that would be antithetical to the Democratic voters, but would nonetheless represent Republicans and Independents.
Fine. I get that. But what Joe needs to get is an understanding that, having taken positions that did not represent the opinions and wishes of the Democratic voters, he now has to accept that those Democratic voters are not interested in seeing him return to the Senate where they have every reason to believe he would continue to turn his back on them.
When you represent all the voters with positions that are more Republican than Democratic, you should have hewed to your principles and run as a Republican, or bowed out of the primary altogether and run in the general as a third-party candidate.
Principles, my ass.
*ilson @ 6:52 - totally gratuitous sex.
Mercury News: Liberals angry at Boxer for supporting Lieberman
(a new DKos diary, by hartford for lamont):
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/16/183938/808
Just a Head’s Up:
Fabulous: The Story of Queer Cinema is on right now on the IFC Channel.
puppethead 88 — The Kiss float is going to be at our FDL get-together on Thursday night. People can see it in all its glory.
I think DeanFan will be driving it all over Connecticut next weekend.
Fabulous, ccmask, simply fabulous!
Judge Bork, who is now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, made these remarks at a forum sponsored by AEI entitled, `Sex and Hollywood: What Should Be the Government’s Role?’, at which I had the privilege of speaking
Bork and the AEI and censorship and Lieberman. Wowser.
Maybe that AEI guy that Bush has set up in the Admin can do a re-election comic book for Leiberman. Make him the Boy Robin to Bush’s Batman - evil Ned as the Riddler, who keeps asking questions the Boy Wonder doesn’t want to answer.
Zinmeister and Leiberman can swap stories on how talking about sex makes people fall in love with prostitutes and commit murder. Never having done either, I’m wondering if it’s because I don’t pronunciate the words correctly?
CTBlogger has photos of the event up
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30294265@N00/
It’s pretty good. I never knew Batman and Robin were gay. I knew they dressed gay. Paul Lynde I definitely knew and the cross dresser on Mash.
ccmask - belated kudos to you for the War on Error.
To win the War on Error - all you have to do is vote.
I never knew Batman and Robin were gay. I knew they dressed gay. Paul Lynde I definitely knew and the cross dresser on Mash.
I thought everyone knew.
Jane- The number 1398 at Flickr is wonderful! I guess it is getting some attention.
Republicans are torn on Paul Lynde. They like the Secret Square thing so much, it tends to make them ambivalent overall.
I picture the “The Kiss” float stalking Odious Joe like the “Eat Me” cake in Animal House.
Now if we can get Jane to dress up like a pirate and a few FDL’ers to lead the parade down an alley, dump a box of 10,000 marbles and fire some smoke bombs off.
Odious Joe will never be the same.
-GSD
Thanks Mary. I was snarkly wondering what rhymed with terror and *puff* Error!
Jane and everyone:
Please take photos on Thursday… Many of us wished they could come…
The LieberYouth look sullen and alienated.
May I have ten thousand marbles please?
I picture the “The Kiss” float stalking Odious Joe like the “Eat Me” cake in Animal House.
I was thinking more like the clockodile in Peter Pan…
It’s made out of paper mache I guess. That Float needs to go cross country. It could piss off a lot more people and help other states.
I want to let every here know your girl Jane is one tough Broad (being Born in Brooklyn,NY Like I was Means thats about the biggest compliment one can give or get)
We all stood out in about 98 degree heat for 4 hrs to bring you this story and make sure Sen. Lieberman didn’t have a comfortable Sunday.I’m sure they’ll be some great video to come out of our little adventure of the day but seeing little dick Blumenthol run away lest he be caught on camera with Leper Lieberman made my day.
Hats off to you Jane,you sure know how to keep life interesting.