Time for everybody to stop hating Joe Lieberman, because he is not getting punished at all for calling the current president and majority party a bunch of fags every day for the past two years. According to Politico, “Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Ken Salazar (D-Colo.), Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) are all involved in the effort” of telling other Senators to support clemency for Lieberman in next week’s caucus vote on stripping him from his Homeland Security chairmanship and/or other committee assignments. Well here is a Third Way: vote to send Lieberman to his precious Iraq and its War, as a private. No wait wait — Afghanistan. That one’s worse now isn’t it? Send him to that one. The Afghanistan War. Or Darfur. [Politico]
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What does Joe know? He must have something on every senator from the past 20 years!
Maybe the Paultards would take him? In trade? For Truck Nutz?
I guess it’s a welcome relief that after all the crazy new Hopetasticness we voted into office as President, we still have same reassuring bunch of knucklefuck losers in the Senate.
Can’t we trade him to Israel for some solid intelligence on the location of Bin Laden?
[re=174907]Dave J.[/re]: Exactly. How many of these assbogglers are up for re-elect in 2010?
Lehman, GM, Lieberman …
Everyone getting amnestied, lately. And I can’t still get a driver’s license!
[re=174912]grendel[/re]: As if they’d take him.
The Dems want him for votes, which is sad, because he’s such a Melting Maverick he’ll just switch parties as soon as BO is elected.
He’s got Joementum. Or something.
I mean inaugurated.
I wish everyone, starting with Barry and all the Dems in the Senate, would just start saying, “Joe Who?”
Let him stay if he wants, but ignore him.
Bleah. That button just totally destroyed my day. Bleah.
I am disturbed that there is not one mention of Lieberman being a known virgin in this post. That is the most important Lieberman fact ever. Much more important than the fact that he is a horrible dopey-faced traitor who we all want to beat with a cane (cause that is the way all senate beat downs should occur).
Riiiiiiiight. Make pretty talk: but if the Dems reach a filibuster-proof majority after all the recounts, his ass is still grass.
As a CT resident, I cannot wait for 2012 to vote this weasel out. No snark, he is a fucking weasel whose interests lie more in his own than his constituents.
I don’t like the Darfur shoutout. Not one bit. Heck, maybe if he went there and saw all the troubles, he could come back and fight to end the violence there, since we haven’t done a damn thing. No snark, just very deep sadness.
Can’t send him to Darfur – the Sudanese Governement has declared a ceasefire. Sadly, I can only assume that means they’ve run out of people to shoot. Let’s hope I’m wrong.
Hey what happened to my fucking TRUCKNUTZ post. They spiked that entry. How can we “rebuild the party” if freedom of speech gets thrown under the bus? Oh. Nevermind. Rhetorical question.
Joe is the biggest drama queen in the senate. It’s always got to be about her!
If the Dems take him back, it should be to strip him for parts.
[re=174929]Rush[/re]: I’ll trade you for Eric Cantor. At least your weasel is on the way down. Ours is still on the way up.
I’m thinking they should make him and Hadassah pay retail.
Joe ought to consider running for President, then he wouldn’t have all these pesky politicians getting in his way. I also think that’s a way he’ll finally get laid. Now that he’s pseudo-GOP, what does that make him into? Pseudo-preteen boys?
[re=174936]Cogito Ergo Bibo[/re]:
Toss in a carton of Newport’s and a case of Bosnia bullets and you have a deal.
fuck lieberman fucking turncoat mother fucker. play this instead http://www.superobamaworld.com/
Sorry, still be hatin on him. And I wouldn’t send him to Iraq/Afghanistan, because that would be unfair to our heroic, underemployed, desperate small-town bored, jail-or-the-army, brave, couldn’t-cut-college, selfless, got a HS girl preggy and had to split, proud, got totally dicked by the recruiter’s fast-talk—did I say heroic? troops. Oh shit, I said it. I said it, and all those GOP Patriot Police are looking at Wonkette now. Oh. My. God. This was supposed to be about Lieberman. So…. hey, let’s get back on Lieberman. Umm, he talks really funny. He reminds me of Elmer Fudd, no, Dopey the dwarf. And he’s two-faced, and, um, a a a turncoat….
Oh. My. God.
P.S.–WadISay’s comment about stripping him for parts made me spew coffee all over the keyboard. Curses.
Make him edit and fact-check Dubya’s memoirs. Or clean out the Augean stables.
As a person currently in Afghanistan, I can say that we don’t want him here. We’re already have enough fucking problems in our retro-Korean-War war here. Send him to Iraq. He can have my old bunk at FOB Kalsu. Damn, where’s my snark? It seems to leave without alcoholic lubrication.
http://punditkitchen.com/2008/11/12/political-pictures-joe-lieberman-dinosaur/
[re=174960]robanybody[/re]: “…underemployed, desperate small-town bored, jail-or-the-army, brave, couldn’t-cut-college, selfless, got a HS girl preggy and had to split, proud, got totally dicked by the recruiter’s fast-talk…” Umm…yeah…since I am IN Afghanistan, and the opposite of your description, I’ll just take that with a BIG block of salt and consider that snark that missed its mark.
I can’t stand him (and haven’t since his sad moralizing days against Bubba) but it probably is time to just shut up about him, let him run his little Homeland Security Committee and, as some else has said, ignore him and hope the good people of CT send Ned Lamont in 2012. Crazy ol’ McCain will probably be home full time in AZ then and they can get all Brokeback Mountain about what might have been. Let the baby have his bottle. I don’t care about him any more.
[re=174962]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Apparently the “bidding war” on Bush’s memoirs is a “how low can you go” affair. He’ll be lucky to get a hunnert thousand bucks and NO one will buy a copy. Sweet.
[re=174975]BigLar[/re]: I’m a vet, and I assume you’re one of the brave, selfless folks, and I do think we have a legitimate job to do over there and thank you for doing it. But I live in the world, too, though not as savage as yours, and I know why some of the kids around here end up going in. Do you see no truth to my rude snark?
[re=174969]grendel[/re]: Ha! Beautiful.
BigLar: Hey, thanks. Be safe.
[re=174991]robanybody[/re]: Fair enough, wasn’t looking for a fight or to disrupt snark. Enough seriousness. Although don’t send him to Sudan. When I was there (albeit in the south, not Darfur) the parties at the UN and NGO compounds were GREAT! Your charitable donations and UN conrtibutions at work! Never thought I’d miss Sudan! Thank you for your support! Arrugh, too many exclamation points!!!
[re=174975]BigLar[/re]: I’m sure you can think of something creative to use Lieberman for, trade him for a truck load of something or other. We need him out of the US and US politics forever.I don’t know how long you’ve been in Afghanistan but whatever you do don’t have the chicken.
[re=175025]BigLar[/re]: One more touch of seriousness: Thank you for putting it on the line. Seriously. And I appreciate your broad-minded smarts and the sobering effect of straight talk (arghh… wait…). I just had a snark transplant, and there’s still this issue of rejection…. for me, Wonkette is a wonderful, dangerous place where the boundaries constantly blur and judgement is always a tenuous task. It’s Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride for the new millennium. Bottom line: I wish you safe passage.
I’d say we trade him for a magic bean.
@Robanybody
I did get a car salesman vibe from most recruiters that wanted to sign me up… Plus the Marines almost snagged my little brother with a free frappucino. Dude thinks with his sweet-tooth instead of his upper or lower head. It was a giant wtf, because my bro is damn near the opposite of what you expect a Marine to be. Do they have an elite squad of latte chugging videogaming ADD suffering psuedo-rastafarians they need to fill?
I’m hoping this is just the first case of Obama Kabuki. Steps:
1) Obama makes statemanlike, bipartisan noises thus reinforcing his “new politics” shtick
2) Reid makes chickenshit ass-covering noises
3) Dems vote in secret ballot to toss him out of his chairmanship anyway.
I’d like it to conclude with a ritual slapping/shunning of Lieberman but that’s probably too much to ask.
Perhaps he’d like to make a personal Homeland Security inspection of the US-Canada border across northern Alaska? Say about the end of January.
[re=174975]BigLar[/re]: Big, I think you’re narrow-minded and missing a great opportunity.
Stupid of you, really.
Joe Liebermann would make a perfect “Iranian Mine Detector.”
You know, both eyes closed; fingers in ears; tapping foot out in front of column?
As employed by the thousands by Iran during the Iran-Iraq War.
And if you’re worried about TM-46s, TM-83s or equivalent, rather than a PMN-1 or whatever, you could strap a couple of cinderblocks to his mangy carcase to get the weight up enough to trigger.
(Try to keep an open mind . . . and stay safe out there.)
[re=174929]Rush[/re]: Weasels everywhere are offended by your remark.
Since Alaska is getting all the press after this election, Bill Nelson is just doing his job in trying to get the “WTF?!” spotlight back on our fair state!
Give Joe a lifetime appointment as factotum/cabana boy in Big Dick Cheney’s private masturbatorium.
[re=174925]OffTheRecord[/re]: Where IS Preston Brooks now that we really need him?
[re=175055]Cylon Model 6[/re]: That is grist for the Marine Corps mill. What they do is take nonconformists and turn them into motivated, creative killers. People with a bureaucratic mindset join the Army or the Air Force.
That picture is kind of hot….in a strange way.
[re=175182]sevenrepeat[/re]: EEEEWWWW!!!!
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Guys you really expected that Lieberman get punished?!
Everyone getting amnestied, lately as Mongo said.
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