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What if sanctimonious homunculus Joe Lieberman gave a farewell address and nobody came?
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.
In came Susan Collins (Maine), Lieberman’s Republican counterpart on the Homeland Security Committee, whom Lieberman supported over a Democrat in her 2008 reelection.
In came GOP iconoclast John McCain (Ariz.), who was close to naming Lieberman as his vice presidential running mate in 2008 — which would have made Lieberman the first man on both a Democratic and a Republican national ticket.
A few more senators arrived during the 20-minute speech, but even by the end Lieberman was very much alone — which is how it has been for much of his 24-year tenure. He tried to push back against the mindless partisanship that developed in the chamber, and he paid dearly for it.
Holy Joe wasn’t interested in bi-partisanship.
Holy Joe was interested in Holy Joe and the fact that the people who knew him best and worked with him on a daily basis found other things to do and places to be when he was giving his farewell speech speaks volumes.
Joe Lieberman can eat a farewell bag of salted dicks.
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Goddamn, what a whiny asshole he was!
And he might have been a worse pick for the VP slot than Palin was. He brought NOTHING to the ticket, not even a might-work gamble. Just the worst sort of Washington whore. Fuck him with Cheney’s discarded heart.
Thank you for your service, Joe. Now gather up your thirty pieces of silver and head for the yew tree.
William F Buckley never chose a better Judas for the Senate than Holy Joe.
Good riddance.
For that farewell bag, send Joe the Ron Jeremy Minyan Pack – 10 circumcised schlongs covered with kosher salt. They’re like the Hebrew National of salted dicks.
OK, now. We’ve got one order of bag-o-farewell salted dicks. To go.
Would you like to Super-Size that, Senator?
Today is the sad anniversary of Our Al Gore’s concession to Shrub. I’m not in the least interested in anything Lieberman does – except his going far, far away.
Who’s the next Democratic senator who’ll make a career out of being the Republicans’ pet?
Looks like his farewell speech finally got that Joementum going…..
I’m going from Joe Lieberman as a Senator to Chris Murphy. If Washington is Hollywood for ugly people, then that move is like falling asleep with Kathy Bates and waking up with Sofia Vergara.
What a fucking asshole. I didn’t even know he was still around. He made an ass of himself, serially, from 9/11 on. And now Milbank wants us to feel sorry for him? Wants us to think that Joe was somehow above “mindless partisanship”???
Fuck you Joe Lieberman.
And for that matter, fuck you Dana Milbank for trying to elicit sympathy for this sanctimonious windbag.
The amazing thing about LIEberman is to watch this deeply flawed man be consumed by the corruption in Washington. His political career has been a car wreck in slow motion. And to think, this is all he needed to cash in with a lucrative job in lobbying for some fucking multi billion dollar multi national corporation. Don’t let the door slap you in your behind as you walk out that door.
“Traitor Joe”: couldn’t have said it better myself.
Dont count on it. He would a born again something. A lobbyist, a think tank adviser, AIPAC senior adviser. Sky is the limit.
Joe who?
Joe loved the wars against the Middle East, always good for his home crowd. For the rest, in other issues as well, he did seem to follow the money wherever he found it.
Actually, it goes further back. I say the VP debate in 2000 when he practically gave Cheney a handy under the table.
Holy Joe, PLEASE let the door hit you on the way out.
One way or another Washington, D.C. and Connecticut will get its’ dog back. He mocks the term, ” independent minded “. If he was any deeper in the pockets of AIPAC, Big Insurance and the MIC, he’d be in their pant cuffs with the rest of the lint. ” What tools these mortals be. ” Snakespeare
There is basically one reason that we don’t have Medicare-for-all as part of the health care plan, and it’s name is Joe Lieberman.
So, as they say on the Senate floor, “Go fuck yourself.”
Ah, Joe Lieberman, one of the few folks whose mere mention still gets me all pissed off, even years after his last election. I started doing some research for a mini-retrospective, but I see that Jane Hamsher did a pretty thorough job along those lines in this 2008 post.
As for the fawning appreciation written by Dana Milbank, just remember that ol’ Dana can hear in frequencies we cannot, because he is… THE DICK WHISPERER. Thus are we common mortals incapable of listening in on what the dicks* are whispering to him. [*Are they salted dicks? The Chronicles do not say.]
Good riddance, Holy Joe.
what are the policy differences between Joe Lieberman and Obama?
Is this a trick question? Or a salty, tricky dick ? On the margins they’re about as hard to separate as fly shit and pepper.
Geez I thought he did give him a handy. Live and learn. Bye Joe the Lip. aka Holy Joe.
(un)Holy Joe does not deserve a bag of salted dicks. What he deserves is a bag of fetid, moldy dog turds and a quick kick to the crotch to send him on his way.
Joe no doubt did well by the corporations that sponsored him. And he beat Ned Lamont, didn’t he? Said same corporations will now grant him a comfortable retirement. We should all wish for what Joe and the rest of the political class has.
Don’t ask us, ask the Internet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Joe_Lieberman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Barack_Obama
(Obama’s are broken up into several pages, so you’ll need to click more than once — hope you can handle it)
And Tbogg, that photo. That expression. It’s like Joe’s saying, “I’m a douchebag and I know it.”
To quote punaise:
Twas true then, tis true now.
It
couldn’twouldn’t have happend to a nicer guy.In the words of Branch Rickey, his departure is addition by subtraction.
And let’s not forget his appearance on one of the Sunday chat shows during the Florida recount debacle. To the astonishment of Al Gore, he said that all military ballots should be counted whether or not they were cast in compliance with state law.
Good riddance — and great post title!
Hit the road jack and dont you come no more, no more, no more.
My nightmare is we see these craven dem sellouts for years stinking up the sunday shows, labeled as “true” dems or liberals.Or maybe he will mutate into an alan simpson spokesman doll..
Lieberman always puts me in mind of the Oscar Wilde quote: He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Shit in your hat Joe.
You look good in brown curls.
Don’t tell me, let me guess: Holy Joe has a nice, post-Senate lobbying gig waiting for him just as soon as he makes his exit from “the world’s greatest deliberative body.”
What a putz…
Bullseye.
Kathy Bates deserves way better than that.
This is (finally) Good News For John McCain (TM). Also, too, you can tell a lot about a man by his friends. Hold on, though – does ex-Senator Sanctimony actually have any friends? Still, you have to say one thing about H-T-T Joe; he generally knew when the right time was to stick the shiv in, and where to stick it so it would hurt worst. I’m hoping he celebrates his “retirement” by going to Africa on safari, where he can be attacked by a pack of Hyenas, who refuse to eat him, citing professional courtesy. He can then be devoured alive by a singing duo of a rogue Warthog and Meerkat who pronounce him “Slimy, yet strangely unsatisfying”.
you remembered! I’m touched.
We won’t have old dick Lieberman to kick around anymore…
and let’s not forget his less than stellar parking habits.
I always thought it telling that his 2006 political party was named “Connecticut for Lieberman”.
Had it been called “Lieberman for Connecticut”, voters might have mistakenly believed he was interested in working for the people of Connecticut.
Don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out, Joe.
A smart politician can actually broaden his support by pissing on his base from time to time. Oh wait, no he can’t.
Yet another rat bastid asshole leaves public dis-service to pay tribute to his puppet masters. Muthafukkah will be back on K Street in no time, hustling some triffling bullshit to anyone who’ll listen.
It’s like the Senate just got a bris. Finally.
One of the many joys of this past election was knowing that when it was all over, this sancimonious prick was going to be gone, gone, gone.
LIEberman was born to be a lobbyist. He’ll be recycled to the DC parasite douchebag circuit in no time.
Retirement would be the ticket now. Can you see him influencing anyone in Congress for a living with his farewell turnout?
As a lobbyist Joe will be able to pay Senators to hang out with him.
And for Lieberman, that country was Israel and those constituents were Defense, Big Finance, and Big Health.
Ah, who could forget a phrase that
will gohas gone down in FDL history?!Maybe he’ll emigrate to Israel, where they’ll fail to fully appreciate all he’s done for them, so he’ll have to move back here in a couple years to get a salary he believes to be SOMEWHAT commensurate with his politiical, spiritual and intellectual worth.
Because of course his time is actually priceless, but one must be realistic, you know.
Gaud, that prissy, aren’t-I-cute face in the picture…..
Makes a person’s fist itch.
Who, me? Oh, no, no, no. I’m not violent and I don’t approve of violence. But one can certainly understand the entire principle of Irresistable Provocation from a photo like that. Picture, thousand words, etc.
I would never normally comment here.
However this deserves an airing on such an auspicious occasion. Full of really interesting factoids about Joe and his hobbies, like money, and more money, and stuff…
Instead of his unearned public pension checks, maybe the US postal service can deliver a bag of salted dicks every month, with a side of pie in the face.
Nah, he’s going to live off his wife’s lobbying.
But will he be able to get them to show up more than once?
I have wanted to call this dickwad’s office so bad since the election to bitch him out but you know what? You can’t do that because he’s such a whining petty POS asshole that he would use that in some way to hold up any kind of bill that the Dems would want to pass. I detest this nasty man.
You guys are pikers. Lets not forget how he rose to the title by scolding the Clenis from the floor of the Senate. But that’s sooo pre-9/11
Kind of sad that we won’t have Joe Lieberman to kick around anymore.
J/K, it’s fucking about time!
6 years late, but I’ll take it. Good riddance.
…and, as a special bonus, Ben Nelson.
Friends…phhht. I bet the few people who showed up were doing it out of politeness. That and they heard there would be a little buffet with some free food. I heard that Kerry was just passing by and stopped in to see what that droning noise was.
Sad send-off gets sad trombone. Milbank gets his own bag of salted dicks for bullshitting about the real reason why Lieberman was shunned by Democrats: walking back his promise to abide by the results of the primary that Ned Lamont won. So Milbank was in college with Joe’s son? BFD. Part of being a friend is being able to tell someone straight-up that their old man is a son of a bitch.
LIEbertoad & his skeevy wife, Hadassa, can kiss my ass. Brother! The fact that *I* have to fund their “retirement,” including platinum-plated health care benefits for the rest of their perverted, greedy, grubby, nasty, sniveling lives is galling to say the least.
PTOUI!