Was it the blowjobs, or the fact that he continually lied about it and proved during the primaries that he was a liar. Smooth talker? Yes. Screwed Americans left and right with his Republican Lite policies, but made them all feel good as he did it.
The biggest fear these politicians have, is if they investigate one of their own, they too are open season. Kind of like the war crimes trials of Bush Admin officials. Can’t happen. Would open up a can of predator drone investigations of THIS administration. Catch 22, yes?

dear old Weepin’ Joe Lieberman, who never passes up an opportunity to stick a shiv into the Democratic presidents who he publicly calls his friends get his ugly mug and whiny voice on teevee

Fixed it for ya!

On edit: not mutually exclusive, obviously! He does both.

With the Rethuglicans it’s always Teh Ghey. Ask Larry Craig, Lindsay Graham, Mark Foley, and Mitch McConnell about blow-jobs “canadianbeaver.”

Meanwhile. . .

It’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt Day at Dennis Cooper’s

Is Rahm a Republican or a Democrat ?

I forget sometimes !

Lieberman is the evil twin brother of Howdy Doody! The God father of the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity.

Not only is he in danger from Dennis Kucinich, he’s also in danger from Rod Blagojevich — who has no real incentives at this point to be nice to his fellow former Chicago pol and ally Rahm when his trial starts in June.

If you had to have two people after you, Kucinich and Blagojevich are about as good as it gets, given that Laurel and Hardy are no longer available.

“but it’s okay when a Republican does it!!”

I would dearly love to find something unHoly Joe can be indicted for now. And some of these other ‘it’s okay for us but not for others’ politicians.

Phoenix Woman:

Why, you’d think that the Republicans liked seeing Rahm stay right where he is. I wonder why that might be.

Possibly. Of course, there’s also the possibility that they’re just scared of Rahm. If I were GOPer in Congress, I’m not sure I’d want Rahm singling me out for attention.

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Actually a better question might be if Rahm is an American or an Israeli.
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2008/11/07/rahm_emanuel_and_israel

I do not think Napolitano should go, in spite of her tone deaf response. But, in general, I do not want actions we take to be based on whether bombers are easily subdued by passengers or not. That reads a bit like parody.

This is the opening sentence to an article in Haaretz ,
Every appointee to the American government must endure a thorough background check by the American Jewish community.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1132797.html
Wow .

Is Rahm a Republican or a Democrat ?

Worse than both, he is a DLCer. He is part of the cabal of crazies that Clinton/Lieberman cooked up.

See, the American media — by and large corporate-controlled by goons like Murdoch, who differs from his colleague mostly in degree, not in kind — actually LIKED that part of Clinton. But since he still had a “D” after his name, he was fair game. They were pissed off that the Whitewater witchhunt had gone nowhere, despite several separate probes into it. So they latched onto the blue-dress story when the Republicans dictated it to them.

This story brings to mind the old adage “birds of a feather…” There is no difference between Rahm, Lieberman, Graham, etc., but Dennis Kucinich has integrity. Something sorely lacking in Washington.

I don’t understand why charges are still being pursued against Blagojevich. This sort of thing is SOP in D.C. Furthermore, Rahm will never be mentioned in court proceedings. Prez O will sign some sort of executive order protecting the slimy little bastard.

Rahm was Bush’s poodle easily as much as Blair ever was. He’s there to make sure everything continues down the privatization path.
I realized this when he rammed ( no pun) 5 free trade agreements thru his committee and told everyone else to “shut up” before Bush fast track authority ran out.
Before that, I’d never heard of him.
But, I guess, he helped with NAFTA alot. So, the corporations love President Emmanuel

I’m just asking why the “rules” have changed here. Nobody was calling for anyone to resign after Richard Reid or 9/11 — why the sudden call now for Napolitano’s head? (Especially when, if scalp-collecting is the game, Kucinch and Blago are prepping up Rahm Emanuel’s hairline even as we speak.)

Wow

Surely you are not surprised. The Israelis are expanding their “settlements” once again and there has been a deafening silence from American politicians and news media.

Hard to think our polices are being directed by Israel, which is turning into a monster…but there it is.

The Republicons will not do anything against Rahm because that would be considered anti semetic and AIPAC would come down on them with the hammer and sickle. Once you are labeled an anti semite, that is considered worse than a murderer. The republicons are serving their masters instead of we the people. Isn’t it wonderful to be in bondage because of spineless whore politicians.

Obama doesn’t dare touch this case. He can’t, not if he doesn’t want it to be more of an election issue than it’s already shaping up to be.

Just as with Bill Clinton, the corporate media still prefers Republicans with “R”s after their names to Republicans with “D”s after their names.

Israel turned into a full blown monster a long time ago.

Maybe because Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama have sold us down the river
with that same old Bush bull shit.

Oh and don’t anyone tell the Iranians but …. Israel has nuclear weapons .

Which Israel would use without a second thought if the govt thought it would advance the cause of Eretz Israel.

In Israel you don’t even need a BJ to be condemned

Avigdor Feldman, Vanunu’s lawyer, said that police arrested Vanunu after it emerged that he had a Norwegian girlfriend.

“Vanunu was arrested [for] a relationship between a man and a woman, with a Norwegian citizen,” he said.

“He is not being accused of giving any secrets. She is not interested in nuclear business – she’s interested in Mordechai Vanunu [and he] is probably interested in her.”

They are still after the poor bastard just because he told the truth about something already known to most of the civilized (Hah!) world.

How can the US pretend to be a unbiased negotiator in anything in the mid east ?
It’s kinda like negotiating with the coup leaders in Honduras while the Sec of states former campaign manager is representing the coup’s backers .
But as Obama put it earlier this year the US has been a force for great good in the world.

Yes you speek the truth.Why would anyone try to throw mud at others

You’d think that after he shivved Bill Clinton in 1998 he’d have been persona non grata. Hell, you’d think that the very circustances of his beating Lowell Weicker in 1988 would have given folks pause. Lieberman owes his seat to movement Republicans like William F. Buckley, who sought revenge for Watergate and Weicker’s principled support of the drive to impeach Nixon by backing Lieberman. (Besides, Lieberman was a more conservative and more corporatist person than Weicker in any event, so it was a win-win for the GOP.)

But as Obama put it earlier this year the US has been a force for great good in the world.

OY!

How can we vote in an election when it has become obvious that nothing that is promised will be any more than a shady sales pitch ?
Between campaign promises that mean nothing at all and foreign policy statements that are obviously false and disingenuous what are we or other nations left with that keeps us at the table beside our own lack of courage ?

Rahmbo and Dumbo

Sorry to sound so jaded and cynical so soon in the new year, but election issues are just distractions for us little people. The top 1% still control everything and always will.

Sure the corporate media and the oligarchy that controls Washington still prefers “r”s, but if they end up with some “d”s then they’ll just have to spend a little more money to buy them too.

It’s the American Way.

Wow. Former Post ombudsman Deborah Howell dies

Can’t be cynical if ya advocate change. Jaded, you bethcha, cynical, no. *g*

There were people like my mother, who wouldn’t vote for Tricky Dicky because she remembered his campaign against Helen Gahagan (Douglas). Nasty, mud-slinging thing on his side, I understand, one that would make most politicians pale even now.

But that is why he got the Nobel right?

May I suggest that by ceasing to be consumers we not only stop handing power to the corporations masters but also liberate ourselves from the debt that they have sought to chain us to the wall with and regain the most important inheritance we have ever recieved … our autonomy.
Spiritual vs political .
Jesus said in the sermon on the mount resist not evil .
The political approach always encounters opposition .By changing our own lives we change the world .
I am … the philosophers stone .

Yes, and more. Lieberman with one hand throws bits and pieces to the progressive community (he has supported a number of issues addressing gay and lesbian rights) while famously shafting the progressive community with the other hand. Remember Rape Gurney Joe, which I believe Jane coined?

Both Lieberman and Emmanuel are useful tools (for the corporatist masters) and vicious thugs. I can’t imagine a situation where either would ever be seriously investigated, short of having pictures turn up with them and young children engaged in inappropriate activity.

There 57 Democrats who signed the July 30 letter saying that they simply cannot vote for a bill that at a minimum does not have a public plan.I would tell them a Public option that anyone can buy into or Medicare buy into.If thay vote for anything less there voted out.alone with anyone else that wants to walk on the comman citizen of the United States Of America.Remove them and the liers will go.When your told there for something thay will be not come back this is the best we can do and you better be glad I’m watching out for you.Health Insurance is not Health. Care.Quit takeing the excuse it’s Joe’s fault.

Agreed I have always thought that the progressive caucus folded far too fast on single payer in the first place .
I still believe as of this moment that the possibility of their killing this bill now in the house would be a very good wake up call to the powers that be as well as the dem’s last best hope at maintaining power come November .
But suppose that Bushes handlers KNEW he would virtually destroy the republican party in the eight years HE was president ? Perhaps that’s what the other party has always been there for .
The corporations own the whole ball of wax .

Thanks for that…interesting article. Impressive work for any woman of that generaion. IMHO

“get his ugly mug and whiny voice on teevee”

Amazing how he can make an ordinary face into something that makes me want to toss.

I am uneasy about that feeling tho since Jews have historically been subjected to especially ugly charicatures created just for them.

The reek of all the isms never entirely clears the nostrils.

Joe Lieberman is a bully…if he thinks he can get away with bullying. If he knows that he will get the shit kicked out of himself, he will become a submissive little Dobie (as in Harry Potter).

I decided quite some time ago that I don’t need a lot of “stuff”. If I do need something; housewares, clothes or whatever I can ususally find a suitable item at my local second-hand stores or garage sales. I support local farmers markets when in season. I long ago realized that my vote or voice meant nothing to those in power, and that my meager consumer dollars was the only voice I had. It’s not much, but I feel better knowing I am not putting the Walton heirs further up on the list of the 10 richest Americans.

Pretty tragic.

I honestly rarely think of him as a Jew. I’m normally not wired that way, although subconsciously at least I think we all notice ethnic stuff more than we like to admit. I just cannot bear the sight of Lieberman or the sound of his voice, mainly because of the harm he has done and continues to do.

I belong to that club. Books and CDs are my consumer buys but I try to buy used and keep the money local. I’m still real active in politics, though, cuz if not nationally my vote locally does mean something.

The biggest danger to Dems next November is that disillusioned former supporters will stay home. While I can hardly blame anyone for doing so I hope people will keep in mind the negative impact that might have on their local elections, which typically have a more direct bearing on their day to day lives.

good luck with ‘ceasing to be consumers’.
Ain’t no way off that wheel, short of dying.

To some extent the worst thing that happened to Obama in 2009 was Al Franken’s victory, because then he had a nominal 60-vote majority in the Senate and no reason not to make good on his campaign promises, which he never intended to keep but thought he could blame the lack of 60 votes in the Senate.

So, when the Senate bill looked like it would contain a public option in violation of Obama’s deal with AHIP, Obama got his old friend Joe to give Harry Reid cover to kill the PO; Joe simply threatened not to vote for cloture on any Republican filibuster of a bill containing a public option. That kept Obama’s finger prints off the corpse of the public option, just as Jane Hamsher said it would in her prescient 10/5/09 posting, “Countdown to Lieberman.”

Chomsky.

Gaza: One Year Later

That kept Obama’s finger prints off the corpse of the public option,

Nah, his fingerprints are all over it. Lieberman just provided Obama with implausible deniability.

Glad to hear you’re also watching your consumer dollars. I have found wonderful old books at various public library book sales. Plus a second hand book store not far away.

I, too, will contiue to vote locally. Here in Indiana a woman just announced she will be running against Evan Bayh in the primary. I can’t wait to vote against Sen. Wellpoint.

Ah better evrything is a matter of degree . I live in an inexpensive area of the state of washington paid about a third as much for my 2 homes , for instance ,as one bought only 30 miles away , didn’t bother redecorating or purchasing any new gadjets for the second one we now live in the other being too remote for my childrens social life.
I ,like Jan, do most of my shopping at second hand stores and as a crafts person / artist trade for the rest .Much of my food comes through local sources and we do a lot of canning .
This enables us to spend a good portion of the year abroad with my family and I do it while working a little more than half the year which gives me alot of free time to pursue other interests .

Also I am a firm believer that your voting every time your at the cash register .
Sorry about all the typos on the post before ….. oooops .

My grandparents and parents lived through the depression and passed on their frugal ways. I know who I am and am happy with who I am. I don’t need a bunch of stuff to define who I am.

As the Airplane so aptly put it: To be more than all that I am would be a lie.

kool, I was reacting primarily to my own feelings. At age 74 I remember too well what I and nearly everyone else was taught in childhood, about Jews, Blacks, Women,… you name it, I learned some shit.

‘you have to be carefully taught’

—South Pacific

I love that song .

Cristmas with the rellies is painful. All the crap in pretty wrappings, whited sepulcher comes to mind. Excitement of the children over stuff makes me shudder for them when in their lifetime consumerism breaks down.

After all the gifts were opened an 8 year old said to me “I’m bored”. I think that says it in a nutshell, maybe she will connect the dots.

Now, that has a ring of truth to it.

Watch the dogs head (Obama and Rahm) wag there tail (Joe and the blue dogs).Keep your focus on Joe and the dogs head will eat your childrens future up.Focus on the dogs head and body the tail and ass will always do what there told to do by the head.

Exactly!

In point of fact, Napolitano should resign or be fired. Napolitano is a political appointee, the former governor of Arizona who was paid off for her support of Obama with said appointment. She had no background in security, police work, intelligence work, whatever. Such a political appointment is just the way it is with politics. But I say the rule for such political appointees to critical jobs is one strike and you’re out. Napolitano had her one strike. A guy with a bomb got on an airplane. No excuses.

Dennis Kucinich is the voice of truth.

Blago was railroaded for wanting to stop using Bank of America in Illinois after a company shut down because of them. He was also indicted by the use of illegal wire taps. Treated like a detainee at Gitmo.Our justice dept. goes against those who resist fascism.

Blago says that rahm has asked him to save his seat in the House, even though it is illegal.

my mom is addicted to this blog. i’m trying to get her to quit. she is addicted.

I’m pretty disgusted, but I won’t stay home. At least if I go out and vote it makes me feel like I have the right to bitch. Even though the reality is that my vote is like fart in a hurricane, I do feel that on a local level at least it does count for something.

I’ll be looking for alternative places and people to support with my money and time. I doubt the dems will get any of it at this point.

It feels like an intentional establishment effort to rehab the hugely unpopular Republican party by making the Democrats equally unpopular.

And with men like Rahm and Larry Summers working in the Whitehouse it should be a slam dunk. Mission accomplished.