When will Joe Lieberman say adios to the DemoRAT Party? How many quit and surrender bills does Joe have to see from his party before he’ll say enough? Maybe never. Maybe 100s. Such is the business of politics. Joe was one of those rare Democrats that Lex actually referred to a Democrat Vs. DemoRAT because of his principled positions and his ability to voice those positions, even the liberal ones, in a sensible manner. My opinion changed when Joe stopped menacing Hollywood after Al Gore picked him as veep. Sore/Loosermann needed Hollywood money for the campaign so Joe stopped talking about Hollywood’s lax moral standards.
After 9/11 and the start of the long war, Lieberman has become one of too few Democrats to get the most important issue of our day right. He is a lone wolf in his party in the senate. As a result and much to his relief I’m sure, Joe is back in favor with this page. He’s about to fall back into disfavor.
Joe ran as an independent but continues to caucus with DemoRATS giving that party a one vote majority. After 19 or 20 tries and after spending 27 billion dollars of taxpayer money bribing DemoRATS, Queen General Nancy and Scrawny Harry have rounded up the barest of majorities of RATS to support the latest cut and run proposal for Iraq. To his credit Joe opposes the move. That’s not enough.
Joe Lieberman is the one man that can bring all of this foolishness to a halt, by either word or deed. If Joe showed up in Scrawny Harry’s office early one morning and said, “Look, the next quit and surrender motion that comes out of this party and to floor under your leadership, I’m going to walk across the aisle and at that moment you’ll be the minority leader. The war on terror is the test of this generation and I do not intend to be a part of a party that intentionally fails that test.” That’s probably all it would take to get Scrawny Harry’s mind right. But if Scrawny calls the bluff – Joe should walk.
Encourage him with an e-mail at:
http://lieberman.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm?regarding=issueJoe Lieberman, Senator from Connecticut
Here is mine:
Dear Senator Lieberman,
America’s future is in your hands. You are in a position rare in American history -- one man capable of altering national events. You recognize that America’s long war on terrorism is the challenge of today’s generation. Today Iraq is the central front of the war. The Democratic Party either does not recognize the challenge and Iraq’s importance in meeting that challenge or is ignoring it in favor of political advantage. I encourage you to express to Leader Reid that the war on terror must be our national priority. That you will not continue to caucus with a party that does not take that war seriously. That by unanimously confirming a new commander in Iraq on the one hand and then spending months trying to undercut that commander by micromanaging his mission, restricting his forces and cutting off his funding on the other, even as his mission shows signs of success, Leader Reid is forcing you to leave his caucus.
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