yep.

Now if we can just get the majic number in the Senate, Ol Joe will find his Homeland Security Chairmanship lost. Reid owes us at least that.

That was suppose to be MAGIC!!!!

Don King is sitting somewhere saying “Man, that guy has some GALL!!“

How about we get rid of Homeland (über alles) Security and Joe along with it? Maybe we just make the agencies that were supposed to be protecting our homeland country before 9/11 fuckin’ work right. Of course, after 8 years of Bush Rot that may take some doing.

Joe, a useless tool.

May I just add my hearty “Fuck off Lieberman” too?

Think it would be too rude to bet on which side will be the first to throw Lieberman out on his ass?

One of my greatest fears about an Obama administration is that Harry & Nancy will most likely have the support of Prez Obama, as they were early supporters of his in the primary. I won’t even be remotely surprised if Harry continues to coddle JoMo when he should kick his traitorous ass to the curb.

That young fella in the pic has “dittohead” written all over his not-so-sweet little face.

Yeah, now that you mention it, Joe is going to be fucked after election day isn’t he.

Placating Lieberman in this Senate was a choice – not a necessity. The organizing resolution, passed in the Senate at the beginning of each Congress, rarely provides that committee chairmanships or the Majority Leader will be changed should the balance between the parties change during a particular Congress. Organizing resolutions are typically written this way because neither party wants to lose control of the Senate due to death, illness or sudden streaks of independency.
Now I’m reading that the Dems need to keep Lieberman in place because they may emerge with a near-sixty-seat majority. Wrong. Lieberman is the worst sort of self-seeking politician. The only politicians worse than he is are the Democrats who let him keep the chairmanship of an important committee.

Joe Lieberman epitomizes everything that’s wrong with “the system” — and I think he’s the best example of why Congress deserves its dismal approval rating. If Joe really had the country’s best interests at heart he’d have read the writing on the wall when he was whupped by Ted Lamont in the primaries. As the Daily Show’s Samantha Bee pointed out back then, his insistence on staying in the race regardless was tantamount to stalking the voters. That the morons in CT then chose to reward his asshattery should come back to haunt them for years.

But, really, Joe is all about Joe. Maybe he should take up plumbing — I hear it’s de rigueur for Joe’s these days…

“I’m working my heart out for John McCain to be elected our next president,”

So THAT’s why he’s such a heartless bastard!

Old Joe is starting to cover his ass. He knows the wheels are coming off and he wants to get back in the Dems good graces. Sorry, too late for that. And I’ll another fuck you to the chorus!

That young fella in the pic has “dittohead” written all over his not-so-sweet little face.

Judging by his shirt, that young fella has probably never heard of Rush, but hates him some Ajax.

Oh, and yeah: fuck Lieberman.

Fuck off Joe.

If you were a serious man you wouldn’t be be defending Sarah Palin as being up to the job. But you’re not a serious man so piss off.

America will survive and we’ll manage fine without you.

Seriously, fuck off.

I really don’t have anything to add to that. Nothing at all.

Aw, c’mon, baby, I didn’t mean it, I swear. All those times I punched you in the face, and mocked you in front of company, and left you on your own while I screwed around with that other bunch? Didn’t mean anything. C’mon, baby, gimme another chance. You know you’re the one I love.

The only situation I can think of where a colorable argument can be made to keep Lieberman is if the dems have 58 seats, Bernie Sanders gets them to 59, and Unholy Joe would give them 60. IMO, that’s still insufficient reason not to send the bastard packing.

I’d like to think that a President Obama will understand that Joe is so untrustworthy that he wouldn’t be a reliable 60th vote anyway, particularly on national security issues. He’s got such a hard-on for war with Iran, you might as well let Cheney keep the deciding vote.

The Dems should tell Joe to take a short ride to Hell.

I’m going to do everything I can to be bringing people together across party lines to support the new president so he can succeed.

Shorter Joe: I plan on jumping on whichever bandwagon looks most successful at any given moment…

I kinda think the Dems won’t be quite so kind to Joe after Nov. 5th. I think he’ll find his new office to be the former janitor’s closet and his parking place will require taking the bus.

Let’s say the Dems pick up NH, VA, NC, MN, CO, NM, OR and AK. That’s 58 seats without Lieberman. Even without KY, MS or GA, that’s pretty close to the 60 you need to apparently get anything done in the Senate.

But if you lump in Lieberman with Collins, Snowe, Voinovich, Specter and Grassley (and why wouldn’t you), then you stand a pretty good chance of getting cloture most of the time. With or without Lieberman, the odds of GOP obstructing all the time when you only have to pick off two of them is pretty good.

So telling Joe to fuck off really wouldn’t hurt the caucus much at all. He’ll still vote for cloture on S-CHIP, taxes and energy policy.

There’s little risk even if we don’t hit 60.

Joe should be stripped of his chairmanship in the lame duck session after the election. In addition to stumping for McCain, Lieberman has also campaigned for Norm Coleman. I don’t believe in Republican lockstep discipline but I also don’t believe in rewarding someone who stuck a shiv in your back. As for breaking filibusters, they’d be fewer and farther between if Kneepad Harry Reid made the Republicans actually hold the floor continuously rather than pretending that a real filibuster is taking place.

I agree with most of what you wrote, but I’m not sure we’ll survive. We are in the middle of a huge clustf&@k and I’m not sure there IS a way out.

However, we can certainly get along without any help from Joe the Bummer.

Actually, it could be argued that Joe doesn’t think Sarah Palin is up for the job either. See, Think Progress, here.

Prediction:

The first congrats call to Obama 11/4/08 — Joe (Get Fucked) Lieberman…

Here’s hoping that well-deserved Oblivion swallows Joe and does not spit him out.

I can’t see the backdide of Holy Joe riding out of town soon enough; perhaps on a rail would be the best way for him to go.

Ahem.

I respect the right to civil disagreement as much as the next commenter…..but really, have you people ever for a MOMENT paused to consider that Senator Lieberman is probably just a very sad, sick and distressed individual? All this behavior that you glibly dismiss as traitorous, opportunistic, back-stabbing self-interest……can’t you see it’s a CRY FOR HELP??

But then again, what do I expect of a bunch of ill-mannered, mindless Obamabots incapable of even PERCEIVING the rank sexism and misogyny of attacking Joe Lieberman for supporting Governor Palin after she has been called a “whore” by some who shall remain nameless.

Mods!!! Mods!!!! Where ARE you, Mods???

Well put, Mr. Tbogg, and deserved saying.

How to interpret Lieberman
a) he’s a liar, a hypocrite and an opportunist
b) he’s a liar, a hypocrite and an opportunist
c) he’s a liar, a hypocrite and an opportunist
d) all of the above X eleventy

Wanna suddenly be a man of your word, Lieberman? DISAPPEAR.

Hehe!

I say we give Traitor Joe all the power he wants, then blame everything we can’t get done on him. He’s our scapegoat, and will be the rallying cry for the 2010 midterms. Dem leaders can keep the base activated in 2010 by saying we need 62 Senators or more to overcome the “Lieberman factor.”

Might as well make him useful for something, since we know no matter what we do to compromise with him, he’ll screw us eventually.

Although….making him less important than Jon Tester’s barber is tempting.

Didn’t ya hear? He doesn’t read the comments, so might as well save yer pixels.

Fuck Joe – fuck yeah!

In the Senate toss-up states:

Minnesota: Vote, and GOTV for, Franken!
Alaska: Vote, and GOTV for, Begich!
Kentucky: Vote, and GOTV for, Lunsford!
Georgia: Vote, and GOTV for, Martin!
Mississippi: Vote Musgrove! Vote Fleming! And GOTV!

And just because they’re tight, and the Dems need them too -

Oregon: Vote Merkley!
North Carolina: Vote Hagan!

If all these go/stay blue, then Reid can say fuck you very much, Joe, fuck you very much. And that would be fucking beautiful.

Lieberhole isn’t going to be doing anything till 2010 except looking to set himself up for a cushy job with a lobbying shop. He knows he’s toast in 2010. The ultimate fuck you to Joe would be for Obama to appoint him to some really important job that he really really wants, making sure his successor is a true blue Democrat(the Conn. governor is a Repub) and then have Obama fire his ass. This not only gets rid of Holy Joe but also lets the Repubs know that Obama isn’t going to put up with shit. BTW, Holy Joe has campaigned for Coleman and Susan Collins. If this doesn’t get Reid pissed off then Reid needs to out of his leadership position. There is no reason Reid needs to be nice to Lieberman if the Dems are above 53. Lieberhole isn’t going to be there when you really need him anyway.

Lieberman just will not go away. I predict the Dems get 59 Senate seats and frickin’ Lieberman will still be a useful idiot for another 2 years.

Maybe the Dems should take a page from the Karl Rove playbook: Appoint HoJoe to Collin Powell’s old job. (He’s so hot to nuke Iran, he wouldn’t turn it down.) Let Joe placate the Israelis and our few remaining friends in Europe, but route all of information and the important decisions around him. This would free up Lieberman’s seat for a real Democrat. And since executive branch members serve at the pleasure of the President, the minute he started whining or getting too cozy with the Rethugs he could be kicked out on his ass. If he doesn’t take the job, launch an investigation into his wife’s cozy relationship with pharmaceutical manufacturers. This should generate enough taint for an impeachment.

Btw, if any of you have a moment, drop a 16-ton bomb in this assinine post of Dan Riehl’s, would ya? Good grief, these fuckers are ungracious losers.

Yep, Joe’s going to be fucked no matter how many Dems over 50 are in the Senate. The GOP hates traitors. Let’s not fuck about with ‘if it’s 59, we need Lieberwhore’. If it’s 59, Olympia Snowe is going to be voting for cloture.

Lieberwhore will resign and let Jodi Rell appoint a Republican in his place, because he’s a fucking cowardly piece of shit.

Mr. Irrelevant begging anyone for a bone to play with.

Something tells me Joe is gonna be lonely at the Senate cafeteria next year.