Common household mold Joe Lieberman is announcing that he will sponsor legislation (which he will later disavow and criticize ) that will wash the No-Gay away from the military.
“I will be proud to be a sponsor of the important effort to enable patriotic gay Americans to defend our national security and our founding values of freedom and opportunity. I have opposed the current policy of preventing gay Americans from openly serving in the military since its enactment in 1993. To exclude one group of Americans from serving in the armed forces is contrary to our fundamental principles as outlined in the Declaration of Independence and weakens our defenses by denying our military the service of a large group of Americans who can help our cause.”
This means that we can start bombing Iran on Tuesday, say about noonish?





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“. . . help our cause”? Sheesh, Joe, subtle much?
Soooo, Joementum doesn’t believe in gay marriage, but they can take a bullet for him. Sounds about right for him.
I think it’s about time that the US Armed Forces stopped discriminating against potential infantry/front line soldiers on the basis of Age. Joe clearly wants to enlist and take the battle into his own hands, and I think its time we obliged him.
Joe’s secret plan: send teh gays to Tehran, and see the place unravel in disgust. It’s a perfect twofer: they’ll not be around here any more, and if they die over there, well… better them than Joe.
Is to too much to ask that Joe take up a less destructive hobby than politics in his dotage?
“Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.”
That was “our cause”. Like most pols, Lieberman is heroically willing to let any number of people suffer and die for “our cause.” Who are we to criticize someone who’s willing to sacrifice the very last drop of non-Lieberman blood to prevent something that he imagines might happen?
TBogg, I really think you should apologize to common household mold. Sure, it’s annoying and can give many people allergies, but it’s not truly toxic. For that you need Stachybotrys, that slimy black stuff. Now THERE’S some toxic Lieberman-like crap.
“Like most Senators, I love the sound of my own, nasal, whiny, sanctimonious voice. Therefore, I rise up on my piss-soaked hind legs, to bleat out a speech dripping with sarcasm, in the faint hope that my constituents are too busy fighting each other for scraps of food to notice. Nevermind, my being a slum lord, today I will talk about subjects close to my heart, which at this point is a charred outline of a caraway seed, a speech that will have no immediate impact on anything at all, since it will go down my own memory hole as soon as it passes my leathery, reptilian, lips.”
JOEMENTUM!
Why kill and injure only straight men when there are so many Gay men to kill and wound?
Love the mouse-over title on that War poster art, TBogg!
I always figure it IS just me, as a matter of policy.
Joe Lieberman is such a horror. I’m ashamed that I’m from a state that’s sort of close to the state he’s from. Why can’t he get pouty like Evan Bayh and go home and back to baby-farming, or whatever it was he did before answering the Call to Public Service?
“Tuesday, say about noonish?”
Oh, honey, that’s Gay time – take it from me – I’ll be there about 2:40 pm after my disco-nap.
you kill me.
i die.
I’m sure HoJo would tell us he would be the first Senior Citizen to enlist–if only MREs came in kosher selections….
thingwarblers got it – need mohr cannon fodder, teh geys look like good cannon fodder -two birds!
Actually, while I believe that this is an important part of the Lieberdouche thought process, the immediate impetus was probably a high dollar gay donor. Self-hating, apparently.
and they prolly wouldn’t give him Saturdays off either
As repulsive a policy as DADT is, I’m sorely tempted to urge my senators to ask the very Orthodox Holy Joe to explain how he squares this away with that one bit in Leviticus that the fundies are always quoting.
HoJo is “down” with the fundies. He goes to their prayer breakfasts at the mansion in Georgetown, and everything. I’m more curious how he squares away the fact that the eggs at those shindigs are probably cooked in bacon drippings, as it’s already quite obvious that he’ll do everything else if the price is right….