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Holy Joe
Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda —
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Keeping his Homeland Security Chair.
They mock us. ...
Lieberman Mildly Sanctioned
Weekly Standard Blog —
... candidacy and his support of GOP presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) — Senate Democrats ultimately voted to allow Lieberman to stay at the plum Homeland Security post.
Instead, Senate Democrats agreed to take away Lieberman’s top spot on the Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection.
Senators approved the motion by a resounding vote of 42-13.
The Netroots are not taking the news well.
Today's lesson
Daily Kos —
Jane Hamsher: Asked what it would mean if Lieberman kept his chairmanship, one Senate Democratic aide said bluntly: "The left has been foiled again. They can rant and rage but they still do not put the fear into folks to actually change their votes. Their ...
Senate Dems: "The Left Has Been Foiled"
Open Left - Front Page —
Seems to me that House and Senate leaders have declared an all-out war on "the Left." In fact, "seems" is the wrong word. It doesn't "seem" like that. They are actually saying it explicitly. Here's this excerpt from the Washington Post (h/t FDL):
Asked what it would mean if Lieberman kept his chairmanship, one Senate Democratic aide said bluntly: "The left has been foiled again. They can rant and rage but they still do not put the fear into folks to actually change their votes."
Here's the Hill newspaper today: ...
Big Winner In The Lieberman Charade: Me and Holy Joe
DownWithTyranny! —
... -- proposal that Lieberman be relieved of the chairmanship of a global warming subcomittee on the Environment and Public Works Committee, a joke and a deliberate rebuke to the party's base. Not even the apology reactionary Lieberman apologist Evan Bayh "demanded." Good luck on Jim Martin, assholes! ...
A Collection of Leftist Whines Over Lieberman Keeping His Chair
Stop The ACLU —
... “I’m going into a roomful of friends,” he told The Associated Press Actually, Mr. Lieberman has been a source of consternation to Democrats since 2006, when he lost the Democratic primary to Ned Lamont, a businessman from Greenwich. But instead of retiring quietly, Mr. Lieberman won a fourth term as an independent. Since then, he has sided with Democrats on most issues, with the notable exception of the war in Iraq, which he has supported. A collection of whines from the left: Jane Hamsher: This is about telling you that you mean nothing. That democracy is a nice word, but it ...
It seemed so funny to me
SteveAudio —
... But the truth is public policy doesn't run on revenge very well," he said. "And when you see the trouble this country has gotten into in terms of foreign policy, where Bush basically ran a foreign policy based on petulance because he was mad at, for example, Mexico, for abstaining on the Security Council when the Iraq War came up, if you have to actually run the country, it is best not to do it based on feeling of anger towards your enemies." Crap. Double crap. This from Jane says it all: Cillizza: ...
The First and Most Important Priority
Balloon Juice —
... What with several wars and an economic meltdown and and unstable future for oil consumption, you would think there would be lots of things to worry about for our elected leaders and beltway insiders. You would be wrong. Apparently the first priority for the beltway boys is pissing off the nutroots. First, via the Jane Hamshers of the left, this from a staffer regarding the Lieberdrama: ...
"This is about telling you that you mean nothing"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... The Democrats have sent a clear message to all of you out there, to the entire blogosphere, but also to the larger Netroots (and that includes MoveOn, Media Matters and everyone else in the progressive online space). You don't matter to these people. They don't fear you, so they don't care what you think. Here's Jane: ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — I KNOW THIS IS OFF THE SUBJECT, BUT HUNH? So I'm over at Chris Cillizza's Washington Post blog, and I'm reading the post that was just quoted in Firedoglake -- you know, the one that's sending every lefty's blood pressure into the danger zone -- but I find myself distracted not by the paragraph quoted at FDL, but by what Cillizza says two paragraphs later (emphasis mine): ...Asked what it would mean if Lieberman kept his chairmanship, one Senate Democratic aide said bluntly: "The left has been foiled again. They can rant and ...
Blogtalk: The Lieberman Vote
The Caucus —
... let the Democrat-turned-independent keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee has only further frustrated the liberal blogosphere’s quest for decisive triumph over the moderate who emphatically backed Senator John McCain’s White House bid. Word was that President-elect Barack Obama didn’t want Mr. Lieberman stripped of all his leadership duties, and so, many of the Connecticut senator’s foes found themselves foiled by efforts to stress bipartisanship. Jane Hamsher of firedoglake , one of the blogs most influential in Ned Lamont’s victory over Mr. Lieberman in ...
That's not the change we voted for
WTF Is It Now?!? —
The utter betrayal by Senate Dems: "We were all told to go screw ourselves." Spineless Dems tell all of us to suck it. Well, the feeling is mutual. Fuck you. Fuck all of fucking pussies. Take the fuck Lieberman pledge. Take him down.
DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News —
... blogosphere. By giving Lieberman only a slap on the wrist for campaigning for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Democratic leaders show that they're not up to the task of leading, according to bloggers on the left. The choice of Eric Holder as attorney general in the Obama administration gets mixed reviews from bloggers. By bucking the loud calls for removing the committee gavel from Lieberman, Democrats in the Senate are telling regular people that they don't matter, writes Firedoglake's Jane Hamsher . It's foolish to consider as teammates the Democratic leaders who are okay with ...
From Books I’m Reading
N/A —
... (we’ve seen before). It’s time again we hold our public servants accountable. This applies at home and abroad. No free passes for anyone. ...
Weird
Whiskey Fire —
... The weird thing about the Lieberman debacle is how it's being spun as "suck it online liberals."
I mean, the people who just got pushed around by Joe Lieberman are Senate Democrats. This pompous little droopy freak who has no constituency just showed he can speak at the other party's convention for the other party's candidate and his closest colleagues will say "that's great"!
I just don't feel all that emasculated, truth be told, and I just asked Molly I, and she doesn't feel, uh, de-ovaried? Whatever. "We are so tough we will ...
King Joe I
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... -- proposal that Lieberman be relieved of the chairmanship of a global warming subcomittee on the Environment and Public Works Committee, a joke and a deliberate rebuke to the party's base. Not even the apology reactionary Lieberman apologist Evan Bayh "demanded." Good luck on Jim Martin, assholes! ...
The Rude Pundit — ... from a Democratic Senate aide regarding the meaning of the vote on Lieberman: "The left has been foiled again. They can rant and rage but they still do not put the fear into folks to actually change their votes. Their influence would be in question." As Jane Hamsher said, "This is about telling you that you mean nothing." ...
Jamie Kirchick Poops His Panties Because He Wants Attention
DownWithTyranny! —
... A few days ago I was out doing chores when I jumped back into my car and the NPR station came on. The first thing I heard was the host talking with my friend Jane Hamsher about the Senate Democrats actions in the Lieberman matter. I assume he was attracted by this post she had written earlier. It's always nice to hear Jane on the radio since there aren't a lot of voices in the public forum that speak so clearly and eloquently for the interests of working families and the great moral imperatives that make up "liberalism," from equality and human dignity to empathy and honesty. ...
