Last Tuesday the Democratic voters of Connecticut showed that they were sick of politics as usual.  They nominated Ned Lamont, a political newcomer, to run against a Republican challenger for the Senate in November.  Joe Lieberman, long-time Senate fixture, is vowing to desert his party and run as an independent next fall.  He says that there are things that transcend party politics.  What he doesn’t say is that among those things is his enormous hubris and sense of entitlement.  Another thing he doesn’t say is that the entrenched Democratic Party leadership doesn’t like newcomers throwing a monkey wrench into their well-oiled machinery.  Lieberman gave it all he could, and he even got Bill Clinton to come out of the shadows to try to pump up his failing campaign.  But the deal was sealed with a kiss—the one George W. Bush planted on Joe’s cheek after Bush’s 2005 State of the Union address. That kiss showed everyone the love Bush had for his “favorite Democrat,” the one who has steadfastly defended Bush’s war and who schmoozes with Republicans on a daily basis, while devoting ten minutes on weekends visiting black churches to tell them how much he feels their pain. Political pundits blame Joe’s stand on the Iraq war for his loss, and on so-called “left-wing” organizations like MoveOn.org for whipping up on Joe for it.  But the reasons for Lieberman’s loss go deeper than that.  It started with his vice-presidential run in 2000, when he had to debate Dick Cheney.  Joe lost that debate because he came across as soft, and Cheney came across as tough.  And that’s what Joe has been during his tenure in office–soft.  Whenever a key vote comes up that matters to Republicans, Joe has gone soft.  Support for the Iraq war has been his chief flaccidity, but there have been other compromises along the way, as well—his negative votes on universal health care and on quick contraception for rape victims come to mind.  Joe talks a good game, but when the chips are down he’s not a fighter.  Now he says he will be a fighter–a fighter to keep his soft Senate seat with all its perks.  He’d still get his substantial pension but he’d miss the power rush, and, of course, the kisses.  Some will join him in that fight, such as former New York mayor Ed Koch, but Koch is part of the old Democratic Party machinery, too.  What the Democrats in Connecticut did yesterday was, not only boot out Joe Lieberman, but also tell the old hacks of the Democratic Party that they were tired of them, too, and tired of their slowly morphing into Republicans. Say goodbye, Joe.  Leave the stage with some dignity, standing tall and seeming to have some backbone.

Leonard S. Carrier

…AND GOOD RIDDANCE!

(A short back spin drop shot from Dusty)

          I was going to write a piece on Lieberman’s gracelessness under fire (being fired by his Democratic constituents—for multiple good causes, and most recently  for insulting us with his injury by threatening to run independently),  but I think Len has said enough about the long-overdue demise of this “soft” Democrat. Well, almost enough.
I’m still constrained to supplement Len’s rejoiceful sentiments with a celebrating shot of my own…to the effect that his Congressional demise eliminates one very strong Jewish (Zionist)  fifth-column Israeli-supporter from our Congress.  I think Joe Lieberman is and always has been (remember his Jewish faith professings and posturings in his presidential bid?) a Jew (Zionist ilk) first and a Democratic Congressman second, and a Bush lover a distant third.
As you read, please don’t make the mistake the neo-cons want you to by concluding I am anti-Semitic because I’m anti-Zionist; And, while you’re not making mistakes, please don’t make the even more common one of not knowing that Arabs are Semites too.
Want me to back up my backhand spin of Joe L as “neo-con Zionist” well-rid-of?  Check this out:  Joe L and John McCain were co-chairmen of the pre-Iraq war-spin machine called “The Committee for Liberation of Iraq”…one of the many political clubs involved in pro-actively launching the Zionist/Israeli program for a new Middle Eastern order (outlined in the Wurmser’s “A Clean Break” 1998).       And guess who the chairman of that Committee was?! – None other than Bruce Jackson (former v/p Lockeed Martin) and still director of the PNAC (Project for New American Century…the heart of Zionist Neo-con war-mongering darkness.)
Joe Liberman’s sucking up to Bush was always simply (my opinion) a way of providing the politically Machiavellian illusion of bipartisan support for the Zionist aggressions of Israel which are symbiotically wedded to the neo-con Bush war for oil in Iraq on the short haul and Zionist (Neo-con Christian and Jew) dominion of the Middle East on the long. The most dangerous Republican in the  deck of neo-con cards was this  turncoat ensconced in the Democratic Party. In the hip military parlance of occupied ,“shocked and awed Iraq”, we can now say “we’ve nabbed the ace of neo-con spades”.
Hope Len doesn’t mind my coat-tailing his astute article with a little of my own spin on this thank-God-gone-for-good Connecticut neo-con. And hope you all  also don’t mind my saying at this point, in the spirit Dylan sang in 1962…”Goodbye is too good a word, babe, so I’ll just say ‘fare thee well’ ” …. that  where Dylan says “fare thee well” to the Babe in “Don’t Think Twice”, and Len asks Joe to “say goodbye”,  I’ll just say to Joe Liberman….Good riddance.

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