The Huffington Post is reporting that in their meeting today, Reid told Lieberman that he had to step down from his position as chair of the Homeland Security Committee if he remained in the Democratic Caucus. Lieberman did not accept this offer, which means that his only redress is to go around Reid and petition the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee to keep his seat.
We've watched for years as Joe called us traitors, lied his face off, stabbed Democrats in the back and did everything he could to keep Barack Obama out of the white house. Lieberman laundered smears that even McCain wasn't willing to launch himself.
No way.
Make no mistake about it -- Lieberman was openingly threatening the Democratic caucus in his press conference today. Enough is enough.
Please sign the petition to the Steering and Outreach Committee, telling them it's time for Joe to go.
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done! Thanks Jane.
Enough! Out!
Seems that unless dems get three more senate seats, Lieberweasel has run out of leverage.
Any chance of that happening?
My husband simply refers to him as Judas.
I will gladly sign - so Judas goes.
He needs to be kicked out once and for all so Rethugs can stop saying he is evidence of bipartisanship.
Digg this
His career in politics is finished in the U.S. unless he wants to join the new fascist party known and the Republicon Party, oh the irony. Leaving the Senate will allow him to run for the Knesset for the Likud party.
This was one I am only tooooo happppyyyy to sign.
Great, thanks for that mental image. Joe Lieberman is the last person in world I would want to see strip. Oh wait, that’s not what you meant.
Joe uses his Friend of Israel excuse to justify everything but what kind of Friend sells the Country that gave us Ossama Nuclear Reactor Technology?
Joe has been awful quiet about that, lets take away his public justification for his actions and leave him with no excuses what so ever.
http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/1302
Please note, Senator, that emergency exits may be located behind you.
Who’s one the Committee? Does he have any friends or people who owe him on it? Otherwise, they should cut him loose. I would think a call from the Big O would take care of this in a jiffy, though he has bigger things on his mind. Maybe Rahm could send him the bad news.
What else can the Dems do to Punish Joe for campaigning with McCain?
What does Joe want from the Government that we can take away?
Or:
For him & McCain: Don’t let the door slam you on the fanny as you’re leaving.
A few other R senators need to heed that advice too.
I signed!
First Dog Barney bites reporter—been learnin attitudes from his boss I guess!
Signed it and will send it to my friends. In the comments, I added that I’d also like to see him removed from the Democratic Caucus since he’s a Republican not a Democrat.
Why just remove him from chairmanships? Is there something I’m missing? Why not remove him from the Democratic Caucus completely?
He’s still in the Dem Caucus? Why not just invite Karl to our planning sessions?
Naw. I look at it this way: W’s approval ratings are so low that he can no longer intimidate reporters. So he turned Barney into an attack dog as his proxy. (U know how the Rs love proxy wars.)
Signed. With pleasure.
Jane,
You should really rethink the title of this post.
Yesch!
Oh… petition signed and forwarded.
Joe LIEberman
He’s ugly, he’s stupid, and nobody likes him.
I signed, too!
Jane - that HuffPo 411 comes from former Reid Staffer Josh Orton - who also said this today:
Thanks for providing the opportunity, Jane. Signed. With ZellMiller-like enthusiasm.
and hell yeah I signed
Signed!
Strip Joe? Lind seed has!
What I wrote:
It is simply not acceptable to allow Lieberman to have any position of influence or power withing the Democratic party. Joe Lieberman is a liar and a quisling. He CAMPAIGNED FOR THE REPUBLICAN TICKET! He participated in every vicious smear and lie the Republicans fomented and pushed. It is simply unbelievable to me and beyond comprehension that the Democratic members of the Senate will accept this any longer. I, as a life long Democrat, did not donate $200 to Edwards then $250 to Obama and volunteer to drive people to the polls to elect Obama and Democrats to have this rat bastard rewarded for his betrayal of everything I and millions of other Americans worked for. And if the Demmocrats in the Senate allow him to, then they have learned nothing, and will in one of their first acts have repudiated everything that we the people elected Obama for. And nothing will have changed. And Congress will remain as it had become, an hated body capable only of passing bad laws and screwing over the American people.
What is Joe Lieberman thinking, honestly?
On a more positive note, however, what an intriguing time in American history with this entire election cycle. Did you all see how Oprah Winfrey revealed this week that she uses a vision board to visualize her goals and harness the power of intention? Oprah created a vision board, months ago, that emphasized Obama as president and the gown she intended to wear during his imagined inauguration.
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I know that on www.TheVisionBoardKit.com you can download a free chapter that includes the eight basic ingredients of a successful vision board.
That’s what I was getting at. It’s a good thing you can read minds.
I am tired of all the Joes. Whether he is a plumber or a turncoat, they should all be ignored. I am sure the republicans are not going to help him lick his wounds.
Click the link in the post for the list of members. (It’s basically the leadership in the Senate plus senior committee chairs.)
Signed with passion, if one can type with passion. Also let it rip on years of Lieber-disgust and forwarded. Thanks Firedoglake.
Confession. I usually don’t sign these things. But. I signed this one.
It is time for Lieberman’s days of blackmailing the Democratic party to end. It will send a message.
At the very least it will make the good people of CT, decide whether they want a neutered version of a Dem to represent them in the next election.
Jeeze, all I wrote was, “Throw the guy out on his ear.” I’m usually a lot more respectful when signing these things, but the weasel brings out my worst.
Did that early in my career without knowing it was an organized activity. Called it daydreaming, and dividing up what success I had between that & hard work, the score is 0-100.
Hey
I called him a weasel in my comment too
Joe is thinking that he has leverage to run as a third party candidate split the Dem vote and get a Republican elected.
We need to discredit his friend of Israel excuse for his actions.
We need a picture of Joe standing next to Bush with the caption Nukes for al Quieda sure I’ll keep quiet Mr President.
Great Minds do think alike:)
Holy Joey says he is doing what he thinks is right for his country and his state? Which state is that Joe? CT has disowned you.
All that yabble gabble about partisanship is so 90s. Why can’t he admit he’s tapdancing to a neocon tune?
heehee. Weasel is as weasel does.
Lieberman is with us on everything but the war and McCain and Obama and the Democratic Party.
[/Schumer]
Signed and sent. Thanks Jane for doing this.
Heh. I kept my respectful cool, which I try to do in such petitions because I think it creates more cred. Even called him Senator. They didn’t see the invisibile /s, but it was there nonetheless.
this needs to go viral,we need 100,000 signatures,and flood the phones
How about Joe Biden
Now that we have less important things to do, help me think about how to get rid of my Senator Mukasey. I think it’s impossible because he’s joined at the hip with Wall St., thus has more money than god, and thus no one would run against him. But maybe there’s another way.
My message
Joe Lieberman is a republican as he demonstrated during the campaign supporting the GOP candidate. I watched some of the town halls they had, and Joe always introduced McCain to the audience. It was clear to me from listening to Lieberman’s speeches that he was neither a democrat or an independant, but clearly a republican. The republicans are in the minority and should be treated as such. Lieberman should not be allowed to chair any committee in congress out of this principle. Plus, I just hate the guy, always have and always will. I was happy to sign this petition!
With us on McCain? Assuming that was snark.
Signed it. I only hope the Committee has the guts to follow through.
You mean the Joe Biden who wants to tell Iraq that it needs to divide itself in 3?
He should be dealt with in 2 stages. First, strip Lieberman of all committee positions and caucus privileges, so that he is just another Democratic-like Senator, voting his beliefs. Once he’s there, he’s of no consequence, so there’s nothing to fret about when he’s also thrown out of the caucus altogether. Make him stand by himself and vote as he pleases. Then try to get him replaced in CT by a Democrat.
Not only did Lieberman introduce McCain at all his events, Joe had to whisper in John’s ear every time he misspoke himself. One can only wonder what Joe did for John in the hotel rooms on the campaign at night.
Next time I’ll do the invisible /s instead. Thanks for the tip.
OT: about another senator - al franken is losing by 1/100 of a percent and there will a recount. his campaign is requesting contributions for staff for the recount
Tried to do this, page wouldn’t load to submit my comment. I’ll try again. Maybe we’re overloading the server?! Hope so!!!
Works every time. *g*
Signed, sealed and delivered with this added;
signed!
That was not quite what he said.
Exactly. I tried to make the same comment about booting him from the caucus entirely. The Republicans don’t really want him, except as a trouble-maker which he is already. Let him have the
officecloset next to the boiler room in the basement.Oh! BTW. nice techie fix on action home.
Signed, with a small note
Enough already! He deserves nothing but scorn and ridicule. He has done his best to demonstrate this via his abrogation of his duties on DHS committee. Stand up for the party and yourselves and give Joe the boot. Just as his own CT Dems did years ago. Honor their votes at long last… for goodness sakes.
just give him the red stapler already.
Close enough. I have a really hard time at the U.S. foreign policy “experts” who feel free to opine on what other countries should do. Biden is definitely in that category. (In fact, I have yet to find a foreign policy “expert” here who doesn’t do that, but I’m still a neophyte in that area.)
OT — there is a large demonstration going on in front of the Mormon Temple in Los Angeles by the No On 8 crowd. A number of police cars with sirens just rushed through Century City.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.co.....s-p-1.html
Well, he is an “Independent”, except in his case it’s spelled “Pariah Republican”.
Maybe Joe and McCain can start a new party, The Conservative Republican Party, and Sarah Palin and Bill Kristol can start the Fundamental Republican Party.
Would the rethugs really take Joe AND give him some semblance of seniority? or would they just leave him out in the cold, where he belongs?
I prefer “Quisling” because a) it’s shorter, b) I know where the “Q” is on the keyboard because I have one in my last name, and c) it’s historical!
Joe’s wife works for Hill & Knowlton a lobbying firm it sure would be a shame if because of Joe all their people don’t get in the door to see any Democrats now wouldn’t it?
But… but… Holy Joe is a JFK Democrat… he didn’t leave the party, the party left him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQAQQtasfBI
Would love to see Rs splinter into a buncha little parties.
Don’t want to talk bad about Libertarians, as we share anti-war and constitutional values with them right now, two positions under extreme attack, but in the past I’ve always enjoyed their ability to syphon off R votes.
Quisling is a classy word for an unclassy person. Good on you.
Signed! Thanks Jane!
Signed. Short Ride needs to take a long ride on the exile express.
Cool I would love to see daily protests outside their Temple’s in California.
I can easily live with Quisling. No quibbling. No kidding.
What if we let it be known quietly that thanks to Joe Hill & Knowlton’s lobbying clients will start getting any investigations fast tracked at the justice dept?
We must cut Joe off from his support networks.
Off topic Jane have you seen this:
http://www.change.gov/
mfi
YESSS!! Got through with my comment. Which was:
I hope we have some impact…
Did you get an email about those photos you wanted?
Joe made a decision to support the Republican Party. He not only campaigned for McCain, he also campaigned for senators. The you tube just reminds me how much I loathe him.
Signed and thank you Jane !
HoJo doesn’t even deserve a Gold Watch, he should be tied to the back of an Ass and driven out of town.
Wow! Thanks for that link. Bookmarked…
We have Joe blames us for why he nolonger is a Democrat.
Reallllly? whaddayaknow
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/.....8;paper=71
More links on the propaganda here
Thanks for that. I was subliminally aware of that but needed to have more info.
Fixed it for you. Please get the symbolism right next time :-)
Signed, forwarded and DUGG!
What the hell’s wrong with Reid. Throw the bum out. How friggin hard can that be?????
After all that he’s done, and he’s ALREADY been thrown out of the party elsewhere, so why is he even still a consideration on the Senate Floor with our new majority and OUR NEW PRESIDENT???!
I am outraged.
Send this asshat back home to do some “slum lordin’”!!!!
How about running Jonathan Tasini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini) again.
He got 17% against Hillary in the 2006 Dem primary, and he has progressive cred on a Palestinian state. (http://web.archive.org/web/20060822113051/www.tasinifornewyork.org/the_israeli_palestinian_conflict).
Signed, with grim enthusiasm. Thanks for putting this up. It is important we make sure Reid and the committee follow through.
Post-election, Joe has nothing Democrats need. If his voters won’t retire him, he should at least be stripped of any power the Democratic leadership can remove from him.
“non-partisan moderate American“
I should have added American. Ah, hind sight.
yeah, I’m going to do some phone calling tomorrow. Reid is NO 1 on my list. We should ALL hit the phones like it was FISA!
Signed. My comment included the line “Put him out of our misery.” I don’t remember the rest.
Enough is enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pales
I have heard some speculation that Palestine was named after this God?
I think the Palestinians have some claim on Joe’s hide for all his support of Israel getting weapons that are used against them.
Plus its also the symbol of the Dem Party.
We need Dem leaders with stones to shit on him.
I sent a comment in the petition, that I attended a speech that LIEberman gave to a Jewish Center here in So Florida, where he spent 45 minutes lying his rancid ass off about Obama and his associations with Rashid Khalidi and Ayres. Lucky we had Wexler and Wasserman-Schultz to conter it. We cannot let him have a chairmanship…NO WAY!
Do you have a link or text of the speech?
Done and sent to friends. Thanks (((Jane))).
Signed, with great pleasure. Told them in my comments that we were RIGHT in 2006; if they’d listened to us then, they would have saved themselves a heap of trouble. Why not do the right thing right now? Joe’s got to go.
Hey-hey!
hey-ho!
Short Ride Joe
Has got to go!
Was Joe always an asshole? I know he was always strange but never even heard of him until he ran with Gore. Did his fame go to his head? Or is he just a needie sob?
At least under Biden’s plan Iraq would have been divided peacefully. As it was, it was ethnically cleansed with great violence and death.
Joe the Plumber has more cred now than Joe the NonPartisanSmirkingAssHat.
What? He’s not gone yet?
NO, I was there in person. It was a small Jewish center, so there was no press, he was here after a rally with McCain in Miami. He hit every Jewish Center from Miami to Boca, to West Palm Beach, and from what people say, made the same comments.
Liberman is an asswipe and always has been. The only election I have not voted in since 1960 is when Gore picked Liberman as VP. That was the dumbest decision Gore ever made. I absolutly refused to vote for Liberman. Why Conn. does not recall him is beyond me. Liberman is a disgusting peice of shit. Of course there are a number of other like minded people that some call senator.
Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours…
Conn., cannot recall him, they don’t have that option, otherwise I think they would. Kos commissioned a poll recently and if LIEberman and Lamont were running today, Lamont would beat LIEberman substantially.
No it wouldn’t. Biden’s plan relied upon ethnic cleansing to work.
To bad a list of Joe’s recent lies for McCain against Obama would help us put the pressure on Harry Reid.
Signed
Petition signed!
Traitor Joe expects to retain the privileges that go to the Democratic Majority even though he’s done all he could to elect more Republicans?
Go away Joe! You’re free to caucus with your Republican best friends John McCain and Lindsey Graham, or with other members of your Lieberman for Connecticut Party.
Wasserman-Schultz and Wexler, both know what he said, and I assume they told Harry Reid. But I will send them both emails to remind them they must tell him what LIEberman did. Also Boxer was down here too, so maybe she also knows.
Signed. Comment:
Start acting as Democrats. Stop Lieberman’s criminal wars and stop him from starting more wars. Kick him out of the Democratic Party because he has betrayed both Democrats and America. STAT!!!!
Had to stop watching that Youtube (above) early. Couldn’t listen to Lieberman one millisecond more pitching McCain to voters for the 2008 elections.
Goodbye, Joe.
If you can Please try and get the information to Jane there is Nobody Better than her at taking down Joe, Harry Reid I fear will do nothing as long as he can keep the public eye off Joe.
/s/
Folding Joe into the Democratic Caucus now is like inhaling cigarettes. Your body is poisoned and destroyed from within.
Give them up, both cigarettes and Joe. Wave from a distance if you must, but don’t invite them over–no matter how many good times you shared in the past.
Your health depends on it.
…he should be tied to the back of an Ass and driven out of town.
with one ass pointed forward and the other pointed backward?
hey, tying Lieberputz to an ass is redundant and downright confusing…. *g*
Signed with the following comment
My contempt for Joe Lieberman will never subside.
(that was my message on the petition.)
Got this in my email box, thanks Mz. Hamsher. Signed and sent!
This thing has to go viral, fast. People, post it at every blog you read, and send it to your friends and relatives.
Gotta neutralize and marginalize all of them, but this one first.
Signed, sent, and dugg. Thanks Jane.
signed, and commented.
i wish harry would have not had any meeting with him. why bother? wish he would have just announced it at a caucus meeting. the way you announce that someone’s office has changed location. new number. new title.new location. next subject.
=====here’s my comment on the petition written on a whim. i saw someone upthread liked the word pariah too.
Use him in a less sensitive area on something else, one which is reflected in his votes..maybe housing..No, on second thought, make him sit in Chambers with nothing to do except speak for his occasional two minutes. No committees, no breakfast meetings.No insider Caucus information.
The word Pariah comes to mind.
One’s expertise and experience are irrelevant and carry no weight when not backed by any smidgeon of honorable character. Some say he was being honorable backing mccain, that might be partially true if he would have revealed it before his last Senate race. He didn’t.
Give him what people like him most fear —irrelevance. No Spotlight. No forum. No special influence that a committee would allow.
Let’s not be too hasty. I think there is a better use for Joe. President Obama can appoint him Ambassador to Iran. Joe will have lots of fun talkin with Ahma***jihad.
I hope the reporter works for FOX!
How about ignoring the small fish and concentrating on the elephants—–we should be swarming in the streets demanding impeachment and indictments for all the NeoCon artists who took us into illegal war.
Then we should begin looking at Congress and holding them accountable for giving up their Constitutional power to declare war and passing it onto a madman.
Screw Lieberman—he is already marginalized.
Just try to squeeze one drop of integrity or civility out of the corrupt, viscious, vengeful dems.
You’re an embarrassment to what the party once was and I’m embarrassed to admit I was once a democrat. The hate and vile actions of this fraudulent party and it’s followers resemble NOTHING, not a shadow, of what it once was.
Don’t kid yourselves, you call yourselves inclusive, tolerant- you lie, you lie to yourselves. You’re nothing but an angry mob of thugs and hypocrits.
KEEP JOE LIEBERMAN.
Mr. Lieberman has done nothing as Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, not one hearing into the fiasco that was Katrina. He is useless. He had so much time and energy to try and get McCain elected, but absolutely no time, nor energy, to investigate the fraud and waste post Katrina.
Thanks, it made me very happy to sign that.
Hi Joe!
Don’t you have better ways to spend your time?
You can stay in the caucus, we might as well use you like you use us; you just can’t keep your chairmanship of Homeland Security. Did you ever even hold a hearing? How much was spent on it last year and how much of it is justifiable? How much was contracts to friends of Bush? Why did you do nothing as chair?
Hey Jane,
I think it’s time to get the old “crying Joe” image out and update it.
“It’s my chair, Harry!!!MY CHAIR!!!!!”
Neil & co.: I would think that you and the rest of you merry band of thugs could find better ways to use your time.
You are all full of hatred. You, the kumbaya, hopey-changey party want to draw blood. I see Pelosi’s drooling, nasty, evil face in every one of you.
I happened upon this site accidently and am repulsed by the hate and rage here.
You will get exactly what you deserve because you see, you’re all alike- from the top on down. You’ll eat each other, you’ll turn on each other. The big dogs will eat their young- that means you. I will enjoy watching you turn on each other with the same vile rage and destruct from within. Kumbaya!
JOE LIEBERMAN, GEORGE BUSH, AND JOE McCARTHY
Dear Joe,
You brought your ignominious irrelevance upon yourself. You, along with George W. Bush and John McCain sponsored a disastrous, bloody, expensive, and preemptive War on Iraq, a country which had absolutely nothing to do with the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
You, along with Bush, Cheney, and McCain deliberately lied to the
American people. Saddam Hussein may have been a bad man and a dictator, but he had no connection to Osama bin Laden or 9/11. And, if you still maintain that, you are a lying war-monger and a tool of the Republicans. (Which, of course, you have proven to be.)
You are no longer the man of integrity and principles that I knew at
Yale as your roommate of four years. Instead, you have become a craven, obsequious, and slimy cheerleader for war-mongering Republicans.
Instead of becoming “Scoop” Jackson, you have become a “Democratic Joe McCarthy,” questioning the patriotism of those who dare to oppose the idiotic policies of George W. Bush.
You have not only disappointed me, you have failed the ideals of the true America for which your grandparents came here.
I’m sorry, but your present-day, smarmy politics are truly disgusting.
Shame on you. Forever.
Dante should have invented a special circle for people like you, the
ones who once had hearts but then sold them out.
Sincerely,
Your former friend and roommate,
David
Sorry for the double post. I was hoping to move this very personal piece up to the front of the comments. Didn’t work. But I still mean every word — doubly.
What an amazing period in American politics. I personally didn’t vote for Obama but am truly inspired by the positivity and global reaction resulting from his election, at least so far. His energy is addicting and his demeanor inspiring. I think Rahm Emanuel will do a phenomenal job as Obama’s chief of staffs. He’s hard nosed, stubborn, and won’t take “no” for an answer.
Obama’s story is truly American. I’d wish to dive into Obama’s mind and discover his motives and internal dialog. To go through a year of campaigning is very difficult, but to go through a year of campaigning and deliver a speech like he did that is truly inspirational. I’m excited about to see how he really attacks global warming and the energy crisis.
What’s also fascinating is looking at the dynamic of who voted, how they voted, and what drove them to vote. Obama’s campaign created a wave of energy that grew bigger and bigger as his campaign moved forward, engulfing (in a good way) each supporter and supercharging them. How did they do this? It all started with a vision. Obama’s vision, planted deep within his mind, began to take root almost 2 years ago today. The power of his vision can teach every American citizen about how to accomplish goals using the powers of visualization and intention.
I looked into this vision questing further and found that many super-successful people have been using vision boards to help focus their mind and accomplish their dreams. A vision board is a collage of images pasted on a board that represent your desired outcomes, your goals, and dreams. By studying your vision board, your brain gains clarity on what is important to your success, the things you MUST accomplish. I found a site www.TheVisionBoardKit.com that allows you to download a free 8-step power plan to creating vision boards. I’d highlight recommend downloading it.