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December 14, 2009

Old Man Types Furiously In Defense Of Joe Lieberman

by Jim Newell  

DOES THIS INVOLVE YOU? DID ANYONE ASK FOR YOUR OPINION? [Twitter via Yglesias]

{ 102 comments }

bureaucrap December 14, 2009 at 3:52 pm

That principle: “Always Be a Whore for Corporate America.”

rambone December 14, 2009 at 3:54 pm

I bet HITLER stood up for his principles. There, I said it.

Come here a minute December 14, 2009 at 3:54 pm

What a disgrace that a man of principle is being attacked. By the way, what are those principles today?

bago December 14, 2009 at 3:55 pm

The principle: Don’t fuck with Joe Lieberman.

thesheriffisnear December 14, 2009 at 3:55 pm

And you are …?

HedonismBot December 14, 2009 at 3:57 pm

Anyone know Yiddish? What’s a Hebrew word for “wrinkly, wicked, vindictive, ugly ass-faced little troll goblin and his senile old sore loser butt buddy?”

Seanibus December 14, 2009 at 3:58 pm

[re=477802]rambone[/re]: Crap, you beat me to the Hitler thing. I hesitated just a moment and someone else gets the cool placement. Damned pang of conscience. Fortunately, I threw it off quickly.

Suds McKenzie December 14, 2009 at 3:58 pm

and get the @#$%^ off my lawn!!

vespula maculata December 14, 2009 at 3:58 pm

Watch out, Cindy, he’s in a shitty mood. The c-word will be flyin’ tonight.

JMP December 14, 2009 at 3:58 pm

Yep, announcing that you won’t support a supposed compromise that you yourself suggested is “standing up for principles”.

To be fair, McCain is right in that Lieberman is standing up for his primary principle of spite.

Manos: Hands of Fate December 14, 2009 at 3:59 pm

They’re just pissed off that they have to spend all this time talking about things that might actually cause some improvements in the lives of ordinary Americans instead of speechafying about the glory of blowing up shit.

Potater December 14, 2009 at 3:59 pm

And by “his principles” I mean “Etna.” That Joe Lieberman, bravely standing up for the corporate bureaucrats that write our checks every election cycle.

Gopherit December 14, 2009 at 3:59 pm

Hey John! Do what your daughter did and SHOW US UR TITS!

Fuck you and your freaky little friend, too.

Seanyboy December 14, 2009 at 3:59 pm

“Just like I was viciously attacked for following my ‘crash all planes’ principle by crashing every plane I was ever in… oh wait I was made Senator-for-Life and almost the President for that. So anyway how about some consistency!”

Gopherit December 14, 2009 at 4:00 pm

[re=477808]HedonismBot[/re]: I bet it sounds a lot like “Lieberman”.

ManchuCandidate December 14, 2009 at 4:00 pm

Okay, Walnuts…

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/joe-lieberman-not-the-man-he-used-to-be-on-medicare-buy-in.php?ref=mp

Only way this makes sense is if principles means: Blond Lobbyist who looks like Cindy.

jetjaguar December 14, 2009 at 4:00 pm

GO BACK TO SLEEP GRANDPA

ChernobylSoup v2 December 14, 2009 at 4:00 pm

John McCain: basically an evil Pol Pot.

(borrowed and abused)

Edywin December 14, 2009 at 4:00 pm

Joe Lieberman, standing up….damn, wish I had a ball sack that big. Whoops sorry, those are hemorrhoids.

Gorillionaire December 14, 2009 at 4:01 pm

By tonight Lieberman will be attacked on a split video screen by HIMSELF, who campaigned in 2000 for the very thing he is whining about today – what a disgrace!

dr.giraud December 14, 2009 at 4:02 pm

How nice of President McCain to stick up for Vice President Lieberman.

bureaucrap December 14, 2009 at 4:03 pm

[re=477808]HedonismBot[/re]: Yiddish and Hebrew are not the same. But to answer your question, “Schmeggegeh”, “Schmuck”, and “Schlmiel” are good for starters (all Yiddish).

Vulpes82 December 14, 2009 at 4:03 pm

And yet the liberal right is silent.

Crank Tango December 14, 2009 at 4:04 pm

he is right about one thing–joe lieberman is a disgrace. messy!

qwerty42 December 14, 2009 at 4:04 pm

More from the Yglesias post:
…I guess to McCain being bitter and ignorant counts as standing up for your principles.

Actually, I think that’s a perfectly fair characterization of McCain’s ideological drifting over the years.

Advocatus_Diaboli December 14, 2009 at 4:06 pm

Stay relevant WALNUTS!, stay relevant.

user-of-owls December 14, 2009 at 4:07 pm

Take a moment, as the bile rises in your throat, to consider the reaction of one Rahm Emanuel to our very special Lieberman Monday. With Emanuel around, I can only envision a small set of plausible explanations for the continued existence of the CT monster.

1-Rahm is bound in titanium chains at the bottom of an underground missile silo.

2-Rahm has become a Quaker.

3-Somewhere in the Virginia countryside, there is a mass grave that dwarfs the killing fields of Kampuchea which is filled with disemboweled puppies and the corpses of bludgeoned White House Homeless Person Internship Program winners.

bludgeoned WH interns who were orphans

Katydid December 14, 2009 at 4:07 pm

[re=477808]HedonismBot[/re]:
Anyone know Yiddish? What’s a Hebrew word for “wrinkly, wicked, vindictive, ugly ass-faced little troll goblin and his senile old sore loser butt buddy?”

It’s now Lieberman.

SayItWithWookies December 14, 2009 at 4:08 pm

Does anyone else notice that? Something smells like loser.

McDuff December 14, 2009 at 4:09 pm

Well, that’s sure to get Walnuts another invite to Meet the Press.

OReillysVibrator December 14, 2009 at 4:09 pm

When your own “principles” include ditchin’ the old ball and chain when a car crash leaves her disfigured (and ugly!), your view of Lieberman’s “principles” shouldn’t be expected to reconcile the buy-in flip flop.

happyrock December 14, 2009 at 4:10 pm

Principles = money + spite

queeraselvis v 2.0 December 14, 2009 at 4:10 pm

Oh, just shut up and take your Metamucil, Senator Poopypants.

PrairiePossum December 14, 2009 at 4:10 pm

Joe Lieberman’s principles are the finest principles the insurance industry can buy.

Gopherit December 14, 2009 at 4:10 pm

[re=477834]user-of-owls[/re]: Rahm is a ninja. Lieberman won’t even notice the sword going in, only that he’s getting sleepy.

thesheriffisnear December 14, 2009 at 4:11 pm

[re=477826]bureaucrap[/re]: You forgot the best one of all, SHMENDRIK!!!

Gopherit December 14, 2009 at 4:12 pm

[re=477845]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: He’s only Poopypants WHEN he takes his Metamucil. Damn Vietnamese plugged up his colon, too.

user-of-owls December 14, 2009 at 4:12 pm

[re=477834]user-of-owls[/re]: Aw, peas. All that time editing just to leave a scrap lying around at the bottom. FAT, FEATHERED FAIL you monkey dung.

Aflac Shrugged December 14, 2009 at 4:12 pm

It is disgraceful. Even on Twitter, there’s no need for your syntax to be this awful, Senator McCain. Let me help you.

“The liberal left (subject/unnecessary adjective) / viciously attacks (verb, active voice) / Joe Lieberman (direct object/douchebag) / for his principles on health care (prepositional phrases complementary to the verb/gross misunderstanding of what constitutes a principle). What a disgrace! (interjection/self-serving bullshit).”

If you can’t speak the language, get out of the country.

Holy Cow!! December 14, 2009 at 4:12 pm

How dare the media report on the doings of feckless flabbery duplicitous fiend!

smitallica December 14, 2009 at 4:12 pm

Note to Senator McCain: It’s okay to attack someone for standing up for their principles when their principles are shitty and transparent.

P.S. You washed up old fuck.

coochiemama December 14, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Aww, let the crazy old man ramble. He’s pissed off numerous conservatives/former supporters in my area with his stunt the other day bashing local stimulus improvement projects.

mumblyjoe December 14, 2009 at 4:14 pm

I see the Sore Loser caucus is out in force today.

Larry McAwful December 14, 2009 at 4:18 pm

So why doesn’t Lieberman just go and caucus with the Republicans? I bet they’d let him be Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee… oh, wait…

bakeneko December 14, 2009 at 4:20 pm

Give the phone back to Meg, you walking colostomy bag.

Darkness December 14, 2009 at 4:21 pm

Did anyone in the EVilLIEberal Media ask Senator McWalnuts what those principles are, exactly?

Connecticut for Lieberman Party Platform, Plank 1: Leave the poor Americans in a ditch to die. Plank 2: I gets rich off the insurances people with their mad money skillz! (Plank 3 was something about a bigger wall for some ghetto in the middle east, and a final solution something or other, but I forget the details…)

Lionel Hutz Esq. December 14, 2009 at 4:22 pm

FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, Jim, FIVE AND A HALF YEARS! No one has to ask McCain anything! What about FIVE AND A HALF YEARS do you not understand?

Hooray For Anything December 14, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Lieberman is standing up for his principals, the very same principals John McCain has– mainly grandstanding on some very important issue and getting face time on TV. And then after that, making a big deal about rising above the petty partisanship of the day, wuss out and vote with the Republican Party.

bored with gravity December 14, 2009 at 4:23 pm

[re=477823]dr.giraud[/re]: How many national elections do you have to lose in order to become irrelevant?

loquaciousmusic December 14, 2009 at 4:24 pm

I wish that Joe stood up less for his “principles” and more for THE FUCKING STATE OF CONNECTICUT!

Extemporanus December 14, 2009 at 4:26 pm

I had no idea that it was physically possible to stand up for one’s principles while simultaneously kneeling down to suck the cankerous cocks of one’s top corporate campaign donors whilst they repeatedly fist said principles up the ass with gold-plated brass knuckles bearing words such as “DENIED” and “HAHAHA” spelled out in tiny diamonds pried from wedding rings and purchased from pawnshops at a bulk discount.

Not_So_Much December 14, 2009 at 4:27 pm

Meh, he got the disgrace part right. I think that’s about all you can ask from him & his twattering…

Darkness December 14, 2009 at 4:27 pm

[re=477826]bureaucrap[/re]: In short, the word we want is “smegma”. Sounds about right.

Buzz Feedback December 14, 2009 at 4:27 pm

Can we give this fukker back to the Viet Cong?

Potater December 14, 2009 at 4:28 pm

[re=477871]Darkness[/re]: Connecticut for Lieberman party dropped him. The party founded solely for Lieberman’s reelection is now running ads AGAINST Lieberman.

God I love America. And by “love” I mean “laugh at its failure then cry myself to sleep with gin-soaked tears.”

Darkness December 14, 2009 at 4:28 pm

[re=477802]rambone[/re]: Hey, can those of us who need the time to go Godwin subtly please have some space to do it in?? Thank you.

Katydid December 14, 2009 at 4:31 pm

[re=477826]bureaucrap[/re]: I actually think that both McCain and Lieberman could best be described as mamzers. A Hebrew word, it means bastard, someone whose parentage, and therefore their Jewishness, is uncertain, or has been questioned. This could have huge implications for their future marriage and acceptance in the Jewish community.

When used as an epithet, it’s a pretty bad one. Previous generations of American Jews didn’t (admit) to cursing, or at least didn’t do it in English, and you’d have to do something pretty bad to get called a mamzer.

Schmuck, schlemiel, schlmoziel, schmendrick, are pretty mild compared to mamzer.

Darkness December 14, 2009 at 4:31 pm

[re=477892]Potater[/re]: I was going to adjust, but then decided to go with “party as it is in the mind of Lieberman” since that’s all the reality that matters here. Also, at least the gin no longer leads to blindness on the way to blessed unconsciousness. That’s progress for you.

Sharkey December 14, 2009 at 4:34 pm

SenJohnMcCain has never seen a principle that couldn’t be paid down.

Toomush Infermashun December 14, 2009 at 4:34 pm

Can’t the House and Senate vote to rescind Liebfraumilch and (while they’re at it) Mcpain’s health insurance policies? Pretty sure, six months would do it for either of them….

Darkness December 14, 2009 at 4:37 pm

[re=477899]Katydid[/re]: Wait wait wait…. Schlemiel, schlmoziel, hassenpfeffer incorporated…? Boy, that, um, does not clarify anything about my childhood television viewing.

coolcatdaddy December 14, 2009 at 4:38 pm

Senator McCain, are you just giving your Twitter account info over to the insurance and pharam industry lobbyists and letting them do your Tweets for you?

Yeah, I thought so.

Get off my fuckin’ lawn, Senator McCain.

assistant/atlas December 14, 2009 at 4:42 pm

[re=477834]user-of-owls[/re]: All right, that’s it. I’m just going to do it…. RAHM EMANUEL IS A FUCKING PUSSY.

There, I said it. I don’t even care if I end up at the bottom of the Potomac.

Because, seriously, WTF, Rahm? I thought you were some badass muthafucka and yet it’s still the same old shit with Lieberman day after day after day. If you want to keep your reputation as pitbull without lipstick, you’ve got to fucking earn it, bitch. So get off your tush, and slap some sense into Joementum with your purported 80-pound ballsack or I will continue to call you a pussy. And you will deserve the title.

However, if you are in fact bound in titanium chains at the bottom of an underground missile silo, then I guess I will let this slide.

rev_matt_y December 14, 2009 at 4:43 pm

EDIT: Joe Lieberman… what a disgrace!

germansteel December 14, 2009 at 4:43 pm

Yeah. Joe has always been such a loyal Democrat.

rikitikitavi December 14, 2009 at 4:46 pm

[re=477802]rambone[/re]: Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, dude, at least it’s an ethos.

mookworthjwilson December 14, 2009 at 4:52 pm

[re=477937]rikitikitavi[/re]: you only are allowed to reply with that to the commenter “neilist”…

Jukesgrrl December 14, 2009 at 4:54 pm

Dear WALNUTS!

You keep running an ad here in Tucson telling me I need to contact my Congressional representatives and tell them to make the liberals stop robbing Medicare. First of all, Grampa Crash Helmet, one of my three representatives is you. Are you telling me you have Alzheimer’s so bad you need ME to tell YOU to do what you’re already doing? The second one would be Jon Kyl, your troll buddy who’s even further up Joe Lieberman’s ass than you are. The third would be the far-from-liberal Gabrielle Giffords (you know, that cute lil cowgirl in the Longworth Building), who charmingly calls herself a Democrat but would stab Nancy Pelosi in the heart on national TV before she’d vote to cut a penny of Medicare. She needs to get reelected three times more often than you do and she knows who goes to the polls on election day in this state. So there’s no way she’d cross our esteemed retirees.

I can only guess what you’re doing is raking in cash from the evil lobbyists and channeling it to our four local station managers as ad-buys. Judging from the “editorials” they run, they’re your drinkin’ buddies when you’re in Pima County. So you no doubt want keep them on the hook for times you need favors from TV-land. That would be your idea of a jobs program for Arizona, wouldn’t it, you old fart?

NOT your friend,
Jukesgrrl

thesheriffisnear December 14, 2009 at 4:55 pm

[re=477915]Darkness[/re]: It might signify an unhealthy interest in Mel Brooks films.

geminisunmars December 14, 2009 at 5:05 pm

[re=477826]bureaucrap[/re]: “Alta Kocker” would be applicable. (not sure of the spelling, but translates to “old shitter” which I would think with Wonkette’s proclivities might be a favorite.)

qwerty42 December 14, 2009 at 5:17 pm

[re=477880]loquaciousmusic[/re]: any idea how this is playing in the Nutmeg State? I would think poorly — insurance companies and all.

glamourdammerung December 14, 2009 at 5:17 pm

Since Lieberman is throwing a fit and blocking the medicare expansion that he previously supported, is the principle involved the old “flip flop”? That sounds like something McCain would stand up for.

uncletravelingmatt December 14, 2009 at 5:17 pm

“Viciously attacked” by the liberals with all the force and vigor of a quadrasaplegic three year old. The asshole should have been drummed out of the caucus and stripped of his Chairmanship long ago.

Don't Mess with Joe December 14, 2009 at 5:18 pm

I can’t wait for David Broder’s Very Serious Column proclaiming Lieberman’s intransigence as a modern profile in courage.

Hedley Lamar December 14, 2009 at 5:20 pm

Somebody should kick McCain in the vag.

DangerousLiberal December 14, 2009 at 5:20 pm

[re=477808]HedonismBot[/re]: Dickhead.

Darkness December 14, 2009 at 5:25 pm

[re=477951]thesheriffisnear[/re]: ??? Mel Brooks would make sense, Laverne and Shirley, not so much.

Oldskool December 14, 2009 at 5:28 pm

They’d make a nice couple, like Oscar and Felix. And Lindsey of course.

bobwurst December 14, 2009 at 5:30 pm

If we’re mean enough to Meghan’s grandpa do you think she’ll show us het tits again? What, he’s not her grandpa?

cheeto_jeebus December 14, 2009 at 5:37 pm

Jit bags stick together

house of the blue lights December 14, 2009 at 5:56 pm

Joe Lieberman is trying to condemn me to paying $1,349 per month for health “insurance”– essentially my entire take home pay– for the rest of my fucking life. FUCK Joe Lieberman and the FUCKING horse he’s FUCKING out in his backyard.

Pretend that’s funny, for Baby K. I seem to have trouble getting to humor on this issue.

betterDeadThanRed December 14, 2009 at 6:02 pm

[re=477826]bureaucrap[/re]: You forgot shonda. I hate it that fuck is Jewish.

Gopherit December 14, 2009 at 6:05 pm

[re=477950]Jukesgrrl[/re]: Why do you bother watching network TV in this three horse shithole? More importantly, how can you stand it?

And yeah. This state fucking sucks.

lochnessmonster December 14, 2009 at 6:05 pm

On C-SPAN this morning they played a tape of him saying he won’t vote for the current bill but he doesn’t know what is in the bill. How can he be against the bill if he doesn’t know what’s in it???

Gopherit December 14, 2009 at 6:17 pm

[re=478057]lochnessmonster[/re]: He has the ‘Heimers…….and Dems are no better than the filthy gooks that used to beat him.

thesheriffisnear December 14, 2009 at 6:30 pm

[re=478076]Gopherit[/re]: Nguyen!!!!!

geminisunmars December 14, 2009 at 6:34 pm

[re=478057]lochnessmonster[/re]: He was against it before he was against it.

problemwithcaring December 14, 2009 at 6:48 pm

I thought he said, “What A DICKFACE!” in which case I would have wholeheartedly agreed.

davesnothere December 14, 2009 at 6:58 pm

[re=477808]HedonismBot[/re]: Actually, I think it might be something like “zwei mischkheit alterkackern.”

AliBabaInBA December 14, 2009 at 7:06 pm

I guess “standing up for his principles” is SenJohn’s euphemism for ‘bending over for his principals.’
Either that or he just misspelled…

Buttery1000 December 14, 2009 at 7:07 pm

Shut up, Sean Jean. I would never wear your pants.

AnnieGetYourFun December 14, 2009 at 7:31 pm

[re=477827]Vulpes82[/re]: Why won’t the liberal right stand up for this good man?

Darkness December 14, 2009 at 7:34 pm

[re=478057]lochnessmonster[/re]: That’s what he means by being against it “on principle”. As opposed to being against it “based on an honest policy assessment”.

the problem child December 14, 2009 at 7:48 pm

[re=478116]AliBabaInBA[/re]: Yeah, I was thinking it was a typo, too. Agent = Joe the Liar; principal = insurance lobby.

dr.giraud December 14, 2009 at 8:22 pm

[re=477876]bored with gravity[/re]: “How many national elections do you have to lose in order to become irrelevant?”

John Kerry, Al Gore = 1

John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Sarah Palin, etc. = infinity

What really pisses me off all those ‘tards who put “Sore Loserman” signs in their yards after the 2000. I’m sure they’re all teabaggers now, AND they all love Lieberman for his principles.

FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK.

Jukesgrrl December 14, 2009 at 8:26 pm

[re=478056]Gopherit[/re]: I enjoy watching the local newscasters go apeshit over what passes for bad weather here. I’m especially amused when they scream, “BRING IN THE PETS!!” every time the temperature dips below 70 degrees F.

loquaciousmusic December 14, 2009 at 8:39 pm

[re=477989]qwerty42[/re]: Connecticut doesn’t know what the hell we want.

DustBowlBlues December 14, 2009 at 9:35 pm

Just a point of clarification here: if there is a liberal left, must but there not be a conservative left? What the fuck is that? The same as the liberal right?

I got that Masters Degree in Political Science so long ago that we didn’t even have terms like this. Color me old and confused. But not as old and confused as McCain.

Mr Blifil December 14, 2009 at 10:55 pm

In other news, the economy is strong.

LowerdPeninsula December 15, 2009 at 1:28 am

[re=477822]Gorillionaire[/re]: I smell a poignant, creative, witty commercial coming on…

BTW, this has been beginning me FOREVER; what specifically is that thing in your avatar? I see it’s a pink gorilla, but is it a namebrand toy or what?

Gun-toting Progressive December 15, 2009 at 9:03 am

[re=478153]Jukesgrrl[/re]: At least you have local media to ignore… Up here in “Preskitt” I have to ignore the bobbleheads from Phoenix!

Colin Firth-Certificate December 15, 2009 at 10:52 am

reading through Gandpa Simpson’s tweets – i’m really into this “stimulus stinker of the day”. is that like getting a boner when you shit your pants, gramps?

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