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Joe Lieberman’s sad send-off
Washington Post, by Dana Milbank
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Posted By:StormCnter, 12/13/2012 5:07:38 AM
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| It was a lonely farewell for Joe Lieberman. When the senior senator from Connecticut stood to give his parting address Wednesday afternoon, just one of his colleagues, Delaware Democrat Tom Carper, was with him on the Senate floor. As Lieberman plodded through his speech, thanking everybody from his wife to the Capitol maintenance crews, a few longtime friends trickled in. In came John Kerry (Mass.), who bested him in the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries and then, like many Senate Democrats, endorsed Ned Lamont, who tried to oust Lieberman from his Senate seat in 2006.
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I never understood why a man who can not answer a phone or ride in a vehicle on his Sabbath could be considered for vice-president.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
shamus, 12/13/2012 5:36:09 AM (No. 9062815)
Lieberman was the tax collector for the welfare state.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
varkdriver, 12/13/2012 5:49:01 AM (No. 9062830)
OP, how many times has Joe told you, he doesn´t roll on Shabbos! Shomer Shabbos.
Good bye, Joe; you won´t be missed. Although, he´d be a improvement over Fauxcahontas from Mass.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
steveracer, 12/13/2012 6:00:59 AM (No. 9062841)
Good bye Joe. Thanks for giving us the Homeland Security Department and Chris Murphy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 12/13/2012 6:17:00 AM (No. 9062858)
This is what happens when you straddle the fence. You are no one´s friend.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LouBear, 12/13/2012 6:39:19 AM (No. 9062874)
I will miss Joe. I didn´t always agree with him of course, but I never doubted that his first interest was America. He was not vindictive and he understood that a strong religious belief should not be something to fear, but to embrace.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird, 12/13/2012 6:44:00 AM (No. 9062882)
I didn´t know he was leaving.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 12/13/2012 7:11:08 AM (No. 9062912)
Have to agree with #5 but even more concerned about the future of this country when these traits set him apart from so many in congress as a whole and his party in particular.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Liberal like Jefferson, 12/13/2012 7:31:06 AM (No. 9062946)
Sorry there wasn´t more fanfare for your "public service", but you´re part of the problem, Joe. Time to hit the dog track - just not on the Sabbath.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
novakid, 12/13/2012 8:16:09 AM (No. 9063030)
I thought he left several years ago.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
troutgreen, 12/13/2012 8:50:44 AM (No. 9063100)
A good and decent man. But that awful place...Washington...corrupts all who go and stay too long.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
dr.lakerman, 12/13/2012 8:51:31 AM (No. 9063102)
I´m sort of with #5 on this.
However, when Joe threw his convictions under his own bus by accepting the vp nomination to run with fat al gore, I gave up on him.
Up to that point, he was a man of conviction. Now, it doesn´t exist....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 12/13/2012 9:03:57 AM (No. 9063130)
I admired the courage of his convictions until he accepted the VP nomination. Still though, it is sad to see the disrespect from his fellow Congresscritters at a moment like this.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Browneyes, 12/13/2012 9:29:55 AM (No. 9063193)
This is Milbank,a screed with no more "core" than that about which he scribbles.
Last week was all about departing Senators making their "last" speeches. I heard Brown of MA.,Lieberman,Snow,Akaka,and one from VA,Nebraska, etc.
Hell, they celebrate "the 1000th" vote,attendance records, #of times they sit in the "Mr President´s"chair.
Seems to me the time would be better spent if these clowns exited their back rooms and set about doing what they were elected to do.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
frenesi1, 12/13/2012 11:29:55 AM (No. 9063455)
I think he is a typical democrat. Heard him on Hannity a few weeks ago and decided he was still a weasel.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Chas in Jax, 12/13/2012 6:24:42 PM (No. 9064199)
There was one line in the article that further proves Dana Milbank is a typical leftist. He wrote "He was denied the vice presidency not by the voters but by the Supreme Court."
As an active journalist in 2001, he knows what he wrote is untrue. All the media had an expensive study done and concluded that the SCOTUS didn´t change the outcome. "Dubya" would have won Florida either way.
see http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/us/examining-vote-overview-study-disputed-florida-ballots-finds-justices-did-not.html
It´s a shame that some of the media knows the truth, but because it is essentially a DNC outlet now, most Americans don´t know the truth.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LadyVet, 12/13/2012 10:44:43 PM (No. 9064528)
#16 beat me to the punch. Dana Milbank is still sucking on the Democrat lie.
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