This John Mertens person from the Connecticut for Lieberman party is so sad that Joe Lieberman turned out to be so uncool! The last thing John Mertens expected Joe Lieberman to do was to completely turn on his party. This is actually a very tragic thing about John Mertens. [NYT]
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It’s all about Weiner.
As the chairman of the Massachusetts branch of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party, I can tell you we’re not too happy with Joe, either.
Dr. Mertens may be sadly earnest, but his boots kick ass.
“Dr John” is looking great.
I think it’s more about all those campaign donations that Vinegar Joe gets from the pharmaceutical companies & the boards of those same companies that Mrs. Joe sits on. Nothing personal, CT, Joe just values his $$ more than you!
As a Connecticut resident, I LOVE THIS.
[re=473098]Larry McAwful[/re]: As secretary of the Northern California branch of the Massachusetts branch of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party, I can tell you that we’ve taken Joe’s name off our Christmas card list.
Could be a Farrelly Bros Movie: There’s Something About Lieberman
Why don’t you just shut up (just shut up) Lieberman, douchebag
Just to be an ass (be an ass) and jerk us around
And then worst of all (worst of all) you rarely vote Demrat
when you say will (say you will) but they support you
You’re a douche (You’re a douche) more than anyone, douchebag’
We knew that you are from the start
So just shut up (just shut up) Lieberman, don’t be a douche
Wait this guy is a snark hero. He took over the Connecticut for Loserman Party expressly to throw Joe out and snipe at his heels. And then he spent whatever money they were able to raise on an ad trashing Lieberman some more. Whereas any head of the CFL Party who wanted to assume Joe’s true ideological mantle would be spending the money on rent boys.
So he’s cool by me, except I hope he’s doing rent boys too, even if on his own dime. Because he does look a little tense, and dedicating your life to a moment of snark seems in hindsight to be a kind of thankless exhausting row to hoe, the kind of grind that might lead to early health problems/and/or/suicide.
[re=473094]nbawriter[/re]: Connecticut for Weiner, Man! PAR-TAY!
Some other very earnest sad things;
pencils that are too short to use; songs that won’t be sung because no one remembers the words; spoons that have fallen behind the stove and will never be used again; mashed potatoes that won’t get eaten because they’re too cold and lumpy; beautiful sunrises that no one will see because everyone slept too late; forty-thousand Americans who die each year because they cannot get affordable health insurance.
How does this affect overall Joe-mentum?
But can the good doctor cure a raging case of douchebaggery?
[re=473112]AbstinenceOnly Ed[/re]: It’s good news for John McCain!
It seems happiness is just a thing called Joe
He’s got a whine that makes teabaggers cheer
He’s got a pout that makes him oh so dear
When we know little Joe’s venting woe.
Sometimes the Senate’s gloomy and I start to care
But then he’ll shmooz me and I’m “Okay, fuck Medicare!”
Ideals fly away and life is easy go–
Does he shaft us good? That’s all we need to know.
[re=473111]snideinplainsight[/re]: Actually I’m pretty happy about the beautiful sunrises I’ll never see because I’m sleeping in.
And those poor Connecticuttians — they must feel so betrayed. I’m sure they never saw this coming.
But he’s with us on everything except the war, and everything.
The group has run similar television ads pressuring other senators on the issue of the public option, including the majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada; Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska; Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, and Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine
Group Fail.
First it was the “Draft Lou Dobbs for President” PAC. Now it’s the “Connecticut for Lieberman” Party. What new political group will be forced to criticize a politician while awkwardly pretending that their name does not explicitly endorse said politician?
[re=473104]Extemporanus[/re]: As the subcomandante of the Menshevik faction of the Northern California branch of the Massachusetts branch of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party, I can tell you that Lieberman’s gonna be the first against the wall come the revolution.
So it’s Mertens and his ilk that decided to skull fuck the country with this Lieberman BS? I’ve never wanted to urinate on someone named John Mertens so much before in my life.
[re=473173]Zadig[/re]: Nevermind, I figured it out. Bin Laden will filming his next release with the head of “Organizing for America.”
[re=473107]Mr Blifil[/re]: Exactly– Everyone who is trashing him, read this post. Mertens is a snark-tastic snarkasaurous. Snark! Snark! Snark! He grabbed Lieberman’s “party of convienence” away from him when he neglected to properly organize it. Mertens knew from the get-go that Lieberman was a lying sack-of-shit turdball, but he’s so deliciously snarky about it.
[re=473173]Zadig[/re]: Oy. CFL was a party Lieberman himself devised for his own independent run after losing the Dem primary and leaving the Dem party. Then it was taken over by Dem activists and they engineered Lieberman’s ouster from his own party that bears his name. All for the god of Irony. Don’t be so ungrateful.
It would be better if at the end Joe’s message was “get fucked eat shit and die you fucks yeeah” or something like that but overall it’s pretty effective.
[re=473112]AbstinenceOnly Ed[/re]: The overall Joe-mentum of the universe is a constant. In Newtonian mechanics this is known as Douchebag’s Law.
[re=473102]loquaciousmusic[/re]: “As a Connecticut resident, I LOVE THIS.”
Me too.
What did you expect you F’ing nutmeggers? Its not like deoopy didn’t telegraph his motives.Whatever good will you earned by being the birthplace of Seth McFarlane is cancelled out by inflicting this SHMENDRIK on the country. Too bad we all have to suffer because YOU phuckedup. FOAD!!!!
I believe the sequence is Read -> Understand -> Post.
[re=473317]bago[/re]: What an astounding f’up. I’ll spend the rest of the night beating myself with my own shoe. I do hate Joe though.
[re=473309]thesheriffisnear[/re]: And how much good was earned by inflicting Seth Mcfarlane on all of us? Actually, I think they’re more related than might at first appear:
Both are rich dipshits who appear waaaay too much on fox, have only that one funny voice (and it’s not even that funny), try to fool everyone into thinking they’re ‘independent’ (despite the appearing-on-fox-too-much thing) and appear to really get their panties in a wad if anyone dares not to pay enough attention to them.
Meh.
[re=473229]Sparky McGruff[/re]: Actually, the credit of the organization of the CFL as a party to hold Senator Droopy accountable should go to professor John Orman of Fairfield University, who sadly passed this summer. Orman was the original registered party member and chairman. After an interesting power struggle, Orman stepped down and Dr. Mertens succeeded him.
The timeline is documented on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_for_Lieberman
As for everyone who misunderstood the party’s stance, please read the top statement on the official party blog:
http://ctforlieberman.blogspot.com/
I registered for CFL while drunk at Vegas Blvd. in Hartford. Everyone should make political affiliation decisions while hammered. We’re more honest then.
[re=473125]SayItWithWookies[/re]:
“Connecticuttians”
Really? That’s what they are called? That’s too close to Kentuckian for this Michigander’s liking.
BTW, true story, but we got the name “Michiganders” because Lincoln (a Whig in Congress, at the time) was being a total dick to our Democratic governor who didn’t seem to care much about the abolition of slavery. Surprisingly enough, Michigan ended up voting for him both times, and became an abolitionist strong-hold very early in its history after that.
[re=473645]LowerdPeninsula[/re]: Since moving there 4 years ago, I’ve been trying to get an answer to that very question. I’ve been told by several people…it isn’t “Connecticuttians” or “Connecticutters.” It’s “Nutmeggers.” I kid you not.
But that’s typical from the “Land of Steady Habits.”
Nutmegger, please.
[re=473654]OpusOne[/re]: I’ve been meaning to ask someone from your state, do you pronounce every syllable in the state, or do you do it like so many of us “Ken-netuh-kit”?
[re=473317]bago[/re]: That will NEVER catch on – I’ve been waiting since Usenet was the latest thing.
Yes I am on olde fart.
[re=473708]Traveler[/re]: An olde fart. So maybe it should be
Read -> Understand -> Review -> Post
http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14734
There are two sides this story – this from the Fairfield Weekly:
It was especially fascinating to them because, under Connecticut election law, any party whose statewide candidate draws 1 percent or more of the vote in one election automatically qualifies for a spot on the next statewide election ballot. If they could find a way to get that 1 percent in 2010, they could run an anti-Lieberman candidate against Lieberman in 2012 on the Connecticut For Lieberman line.
Anderson, another former CFL member, thinks Mertens “went off the deep end” and that the end result could be disastrous for Democratic hopes of keeping control in the U.S. Senate.
“If Dodd wins, it’s going to be close,” Anderson said. Dodd is in deep political shit, suffering harsh publicity about favorable mortgage deals and his cottage in Ireland.
“There are a certain number of people who are dragged to the polls and don’t like any politicians,” Anderson said. His worry is that those folks might cast protest votes for Mertens and that could potentially swing the election to a Republican.
“Lieberman would be laughing if that were to happen,” Anderson said. “And John Orman would roll over in his grave.
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and hopefully a rebuttal to Dr. Mertens statements will be posted soon on CapitalWatch:
http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2009/12/loving-the-message-but-not-the.html#more
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