Ska legend, Prince Buster "Barrister Pardon"
This is it Democrats, the final day for all of us to stand up on behalf of our party and remind our senators of the change we just ordered. Joe Lieberman fought change with every tool in his box. It’s time we ratchet up our voice of encouragement.
Here’s how.
Join over 30,000 others and sign the Say No to Joe letter, which will be online until Tuesday morning.
Call your senators and call members of the Steering and Outreach Committee listed below:
Debbie Stabenow, Michigan – Chairwoman (202) 224-4822
Harry Reid, Nevada (202) 224-3542
John Kerry, Massachusetts (202) 224-2742
Daniel Inouye, Hawaii (202) 224-3934
Robert Byrd, West Virginia (202) 224-3954
Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts (202) 224-4543
Joe Biden, Delaware (202) 224-5042
Patrick Leahy, Vermont (202) 224-4242
Chris Dodd, Connecticut (202) 224-2823
Tom Harkin, Iowa (202) 224-3254
Max Baucus, Montana (202) 224-2651
Richard Durbin, Illinois (202) 224-2152
Kent Conrad, North Dakota (202) 224-2043
Carl Levin, Michigan (202) 224-6221
Herbert Kohl, Wisconsin (202) 224-5653
Barbara Boxer, California (202) 224-3553
Hillary Clinton, New York (202) 224-4451
Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico (202) 224-5521
Mark Pryor, Arkansas (202) 224-2353
Let the committee members know your letter will be delivered on Tuesday.
Send this information to anyone who wants a party with a touch of integrity behind their promise of change.
What’s on your mind tonight?



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Hey!
es!
Lieber-watch! For Lieber-Crats.
Nice, ES!
No Joe!
Jose no mas!
Digg
the d’s gotta call joe’s forking bluff – otherwise he will continue to pull his ‘i’ll go caucus with the r’s’ bullshit time and time again.
just say no to joe
Awe, say it aint so Joe, there ya go agin!
-G
Karma is a bitch, and it’s time she pay a visit to Senator Lieberman. And I don’t want to hear any apologies from anyone come Wednesday.
Prince Buster is old old school Ska.. I almost used this YouTube by him.
Prince Buster – Whine and grine
Dugg Neuro!! Enjoying your new PC and Vista??
I’d like to see, however unlikely, RGJoe apologize and still get chucked.
But I have expectations of the Democrats. That is my fatal flaw.
ES!
Joementum’s idea of fairness is that he reserves the right to support Republican positions (like the Iraq war) and to attack Democrats as he sees fit, anytime, in any forum (like he did Obama in the 2008 campaign), without consequences. If the Democrats take away his committee chairmanship or kick him out of the caucus, he will become a Republican.
What kind of a deal is that?
No Joe!
mixed reviews, nahant. it doesn’t like to stay online much.
i want to see the forker begging to keep his chair on cspan and then watch him cry when he learns he was not able to whine his way outta trouble.
and what kind of fool Democratic senator would accept that?
Tell me what you think:
RGJoe actually hurts Goopers more than he helps them if he is in their caucus.
They will get scalded by their fight flank every time he exercises his “independence” on an issue.
The choice seems clear to me: RGJoe is the one who is boxed in, and Reid is buying McConnell’s bluff.
I also meant apologies from democrats, “Well we need him to vote with us on important issues, blah, blah, blah..”
Might be something with your wireless router and the settings… Is your signal strength looking good?
I hear that.
Seems like i recall joe saying in ‘06… his mother would never let it rest if he switched over to the R’s.
I would love to see him face his mother if the senate D’s show a spine on tuesday.
yeah. send Joe packing to R-town and let him work his Maverickness™ on their caucus, voting with them on some issues but not others. either that, or let him turn full Rethug and completely sell out on all his past Democratic positions, in which case he will be revealed to be the complete political fraud that he is and dispell any illusions anybody had that he has any kind of integrity.
I just want Joe to go, leave and never come back! He is just too unfaithful and only wants to be in the limelight!
yeap, it’s time for hojo to have to pay the consequences of his action.
words do have consequences short-ride
This shows how hard it is for a third party or an independent member in a democrat or republican congress to act independently. It’s clear that Liberman was acting as a strong republican during the campaign.
I’m some distance in my house from the mothership, and have always had a weak signal. but I think this wireless network USB adapter I bought doesn’t even work as well as the LAN card in my old computer. I can’t transfer the LAN card because it was built for a standard size case whereas my new computer is a slim version. might have to order a new LAN card from Dell, if that would be any improvement.
bet hojo knows that the lobbyists won’t be clamoring for his attention once he’s on the r side
gonna be tough for him to explain to the mrs why their standard of living has to be reduced to be in line with his senatorial salary
Here’s the thing: substitute any candidates name for Obama. Now, would a party with pride, the opponent or his side, stand for that kind of chatter? Hell no.
RGJoe’s crimes are not just to Democrats but to the body politic. He should be reviled by both sides, but especially the side he claims as his home (mostly).
“He is just too unfaithful and only wants to be in the
limelightslimelight!”there. fixed ya right up!
her lobbyist earnings probably won’t be so good with her husband in the minority caucus…
Are the votes going to be secret, or public? It will invariably leak out who voted for who I hope, and those who vote to keep Joe will have to bare the wrath of the progressive blogosphere.
Some reason why we keep Joe:
1. He gives good… you know what
2. No knee pads required
3 He can really be useful if there is someone you want to really fuck over
4. He has connections in the Middle East
5. He is very flexible politically
6. He is predictable
7. He serves cheese with his whine
yup
Your best bet would be boost the signal of the router. I am sure there are better routers with more output power on the radio and would probably cost less..
“But I have expectations of the Democrats. That is my fatal flaw.”
Oh Newton! Don’t let it do you in.
8. the Democratic cloakroom needs a guy to hand senators towels and brush the dandruff off their shoulders.
Rachel has been wonderful through all of this. What amazes me is how many folks, like Dodd, Bayh and Amy K…. had not one argument of merit for their defense of Joe. Nor did any of them seem bothered at all by what he has done.
Except the two giants from vermont.
I may have to do that
you are correct Neuro he is slime!
“bigbrother, I vote to evict Joe from the house.”
Give me a call as there are many out there and I can help point you in the right direction..
*sniff sniff*
Trying to apply a little self-forgiveness. It’s just so hard!
*sniff sniff*
OK I will do that!
As punishment Lieberman should be forced to stay in a small, dark room with Sarah Palin for two weeks.
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I’m waiting to see, on YouTube, a blond androgynous guy crying…
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Leave Lieberman alone!”
;) *wink*
you are evil – no wonder we get along (laughing evil laugh)
Palin could spend endless hours explaining to joe what a much better VP candidate she was than he was in 2000…bigger crowds, better attire, more
manipulativetouching family props…i say nomojo …also.. also .. :)
Just think of the damage we could do if we spent time together. and the fun we could have. bawhahahaha!
It is beyond my comprehension why we are even having this discussion.
If I had a dog that acted like Lieberman does the end result would be very swift.
Uh oh, ES! Julia just superceded ya… Even without any Late, late or early morn tags…
you mean it would only have a chance to pee on your leg once?
Me too. I really don’t get it. Hard not to invest in tin-foil at times like this.
sorry for the misfire of a draft mistakenly being published… look for it at a later date and time
that is just not right!
cuff ‘er, Suzanne!
Twas a glitch amigo…)
good-bye jo
u gotta go
bye-oh-bye-oh
no more blab
less backstab
we no cry-oh
jis git along
u be gone
wave good-bye-oh
good-bye jo
don’t go slow
oh-bye-oh-bye-oh ..
:)
*sigh* a glitch zed, eh? ;-)
Please…! Even pretty please…! ;-)
Soon, very, very soon, I’ll have an Alaska US Senator to whom I can whine!
It’s been 28 years. The last one wasn’t exactly responsive – Mike Gravel. But Mark Begich told me he’ll listen and learn.
You betcha darrrrn toot’n!
That is an accent that should die a real quick death. The accent, I’m talking about. Very very hard on the ears.
any zed will still be there when it goes live for realsies
I want to know where Joe Lieberman came from anyway. He just fucking appeared at Al Gore’s side. I had never heard of him before. Then he helped throw the election in 2000 in florida by giving in to the crooks. He has insinuated himself into the most unlikely of situations. WTF Joe?
Anybody got any MoJo Lotion so he can just slip away nice and easy? I thought Colonel, now Ph.D. Begevich was on the money at the book salon today. I am so sorry I just have to wonder why we are still dealing with all this crap after our candidate got elected?
Obama is keeping it all on the table…oops there is that word again… table… just keeps poping up like a bad nightmare waiting to happen.
I too am in lala land believing in values like ethics, morals and priciples. Just the same i’m not understanding Obama’s logic…no non no please don’t tell me he is HOjo’s political understudy. Time to sleep to dream of peace in a world that is fair and just.
Sigh
I’m not encouraged by the lineup deciding Joe’s fate. Most of ‘em seem like the good ol’ boy’s club. What do you figure the odds are? No wonder the Democratic Senate can’t get anything done. Even Boxer, who I’d think, as a progressive, would come down hard on this turncoat, is an old pal of his. (I wrote to her, but she never responds.) I hope the votes are published, if the Dems won’t punish, maybe the voters should.
How is the count coming along, last I’d heard, Begich was up by over a thousand…
you had your chance dood
Oh very nice! Can you sing it and put it up on YouTube by tomorrow by…like 9 a.m.? No rush.
lol
nice feeling :)
My first memory of him.. was when he joined up with Tipper… all up in arms about what rock and roll records sounded like when played backwards.
What is going on in Minnesota with Al and Norm?
let him know he (or at least his staff) needs to read your blog…and FDL
OMG! He was in on that? I always hated her for that. I lived in Tennessee at the time.
So he has always been a fool, then?
but how can that be? zed has been dead for quite some time now…are we talking a zombie zed?
i think he is a publicity whore – willing to sell himself for air time hawking his sordid republican purity tests.
he earned his rep rising to speak in the senate and publicly condemning then-prez. Bill Clinton for his immorality…
are we talking a zombie zed?
perhaps we are talking a walking zombie zed with arms out stretched and big funny shoes on. and sunglasses.
hey I was one of the kids in that era who had many of the records they were up in arms about. We never listened to them backwards. And trust me, we did a lot of things backwards in the AR Delta lands, but we all just laughed at how ridiculous they were about that issue.
I mean, who needs Ozzy played backwards? /s
some genius in the Gore campaign thought making joe al’s running mate was the perfect way to distance Gore from Clinton–which apparently a bunch of geniuses in the Gore campaign thought that was what Gore needed to do…
yea but that rock and roll thing was eons ago. In my early 30’s. Maybe late 20’s. Or perhaps my memory is funky.
the only record i ever tried to listen to backwards was no 9 by the beatles on the white album
its much harder to do than i thought it would be
Ahh yes, the fires of my contempt for that little fucker have been rekindled anew.
I think we should give joe a new Title/name
Like
Partisan Bickerer, Joe Lieberman
or
Grima Wormjoe
May be some new results up Monday, but Wednesday is supposed to be the day when they resolve most of the remaining ballots.
What the Department of Elections in Alaska has had to do, with the absentee, early and questioned ballots – almost 100,000 of them, is deal with the equivalent of having to count 6.4 million late count ballots in California.
and random body parts falling off here and there as it walks
and we could yell at it and say-”Zed! Get the lead out!”
I wonder if Frank Zappa ever debated Loserman on the record censorship thing
my money would have been on Frank, of course…
I miss Frank
he’s a scold
he reminds me of that mean, prissy bossy little old lady in a very small town – the kind who would head the harper valley pta – and listen in on party lines and who never had a good thing to say about anyone.
Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeave Leeeeeeeeeberman aloooooooooone!
Joe Lieberman is both a little dick and a big pill.
We should make a youtube!!!! You do it.
but…but…but…Loserman had plenty of good things to say about John McCain!
He must have been despised in High School.
I am technologically challenged. Not only do I not know how to upload a video, but I don’t think my videocam is digital and I suspect that might be a problem?
I would be happy to do the whine though, if someone else would tape and upload it!
and is still trying to make everyone pay for it
I bet he got more than his share of wedgies in his day
maybe even a few depantsings…
Considering how many friends he has in the Senate… that would explain so much about most of them.
Can you imagine living with Joe?
don’t.
CT was out last night So I hopped on the ZED. Now i am satisfied so satisfied oh yeah…maudlin for “The Rule of Law” not of kings. George Bush makes a piss ant look good Hojo is the “Gollum”… By an underground lake, Bilbo meets the creature Gollum. …like Gollum HoJo occupies a strange place in middle earth where he holds the Ring of Power…”me precious me precious.” Power corrupts and ultimate power coruipts ultimate. In his search for influence hea has been consumed …if ever he was anything but a tool. I guess once in the undeeeeeeeeworld yu can’t get out?
Dayam, BB, you just might have issues there…! ;-)
Beware the kettle calling the pot black. All the hypocrites strat with laying blame. It is a tell you can bet on.
yeah, joe lives in the undieworld, see my 98
Good night.
“Live long and prosper”.
They just don’t make many players that like to run backwards… it plays hell on the needles!! Now reel to reel tape machines could play music backwards just by winding the tape backwards on the reel!
Don’t blame us for what crazy dreams may lie ahead. /s
yeah, clinton’s moral issues were a private matter, but joe’s are in the public arena–he undermines democracy
shuddering and hitting the brain bleach button
Nope! Your cam will work just fine with the video software that came with Vista and then use the upload tool at YouTube… of course you do need an account with them!
In the long run Joe has dug himself quite the hole. There is no way he can ever run in Con. again.
Vista works?
i only had my parent’s console color tv/am (and fm!)/automatic phonograph player (held 5 albums and played from 16 to 78 rpm) to do it on. i killed my phonograph player by blaring innagoddadivida’s drum solo.
That is true. His chief constituency is the United States Senate.
I have not used good taste tonight so I guess my character flaw is revealed…OMG not perfect. Having said that Jo knows no limit to stooping and that appies to those that condone his shive in thee rib style of politic…any ol port in the storm. An embarassnebt to the integrity of the US Senate…oy oy oy…what can I say?
Blew the speakers or the amp?? maybe even both!!
i have had no problems with vista – i upgraded this summer and found the transition quite easy
and here I thought his chief constituency was the clients who pay his lobbyist wife’s fees….
it was one of them small box phonograph players – got it when i was in 5th grade along with the beatles first album. suitcase style.
killed it deader than dead – blew the speakers and my dad tossed it out cause it smelled funny when i turned it on
that, and the warmonging neocons whom he serves
(if that is any different than 118)
here’s to hoping his constituency finds him as deplorable as we do
a wise friend once told me that if a guy would cheat to be with ya, he would cheat on ya. those pearls of wisdom are also applicable in political situations.
I guess Mrs. Lieberman’s clients are mostly Big Pharma, not Big Warmonging…
Unless they chuck him altogether, he will be in one caucus or the other.
The Republicans can’t have him because their base, despite his support of McCain, will hate his freaking guts as soon as he votes the ‘wrong’ way once. And they need him on the other side, mucking things up and reporting back.
The Democrats need him to go very badly, but they are spineless and prone to being bluffed out of their shoes.
that is very true, Suzanne. my wife reminds me of that all the time. not that she needs to.
IIRC, Joe’s wife worked with big pharma? There has to be a major amount of AIPAC support behind Joe.. there just has to be.
If the senate democrats give Short Ride a free ride, are we going to be as upset as we were when he cheated Lamont out of the senate seat, or when boosh pardoned scooter, or when obama sold us out on telecom immunity?
or are we going to shrug and say, ahhh, what did we expect?
Has been great for me! We have been running Vista for almost two tears. Only problems were self inflicted. All those anti Vista ads are just like the rethuglian talking points! Not worth the breath to speak of them!
A lot, I would guess. But AIPAC isn’t charged with his political survival now. He can’t be reelected, so the Senate decides his fate in total.
He’s AIPAC’s darling pupil…!
My sister had one of them an Emerson IIRC Was even stereo…ooohh. And yep you blew the amp but good… burned it right up!!
I wonder what motivates him to be such a treasonous little weasel?
what does he see when he looks in the mirror every morning?
No balls!
Maybe I could reregister as a socialist and send copies of my new registration to all the senators. /s
He has a mirror?? I thought they would all break at his sight!
Huh….
We used to get busted at fdl if we wrote AIPAC. You had to write it A*P*C, or something like that. When did that change?
i thought vampires do not reflect in mirrors… he’s a scoldy psychodrama vampire – bet he sees nothing
All Is vanity
i think back when we went from open commenting to registration. i could be wrong about that tho…
Round about the time fdl went to registered commenting, iirc.
hey is that Joementum in the mirror??
Back away from that image… and it can be anyone you like.
I have an old print (handed down through three generations) … the key is one must hang it at the end of a long hall or stairway for full effect.
Its pumpkin time pups!!
Nite
Nite pups see ya all on the next late late nite!!
I bet that would scare the beejesus out of mnay
Nite
Nite again!!
Poof
waving g’nite to all the leaving sleepy pups – headed out myself – g’nite all
nite nahant
nite suz
Me too
G’ nite firedogs
Aloha, Suz and nahant!
Aloha, ES!
So sorry but I do not think this batch of SOME TIMES DEMOCRATICS have the guts to say GO Joe LIE-berman. It is time to rebuild the DEMOCRATIC PARTY and in my way of thinking Reid and many others do not have the GUTS to stand up to LIE-bermans. WE need more like Russ Feingold, Howard Dean, and many that have just won Election. And no more like LIE-berman and Reid and others of there thinking, either we stand for someting or not if we do not we should just leave the stage by the BACK DOOR.
nite ES
me also … :)
you darn bet’cha.. lol
g’nite all y’all
I don’t disagree.
I recall a Book Salon a few months back, cannot recall the guest, but it may have been Matt Taibbi. We were talking about Congress’ low approval, and the guest crystallized the argument along these lines: You get your reputation for being tough and principled by being tough and principled.
I believe this. A very large part of the reason that Congressional approval isn’t just tied to joint inaction by both parties after ‘06, is that once in power, Democrats proved as spineless and lacking in cohesion as Republicans proved lawless and irresponsible.
Attaturk is upstairs!
Keeping the Holidays Classy