[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leiberman lost the dem primary for his seat in '04 and was left for dead; it was the moderates and republicans who reelected him as an indy. This is a good reason for Lieberman as a form of protest against his old party. But he may be just adding salt to a wound. In practical terms, it would be difficult for him to get any cooperation from the Democrats when he needs to sponsor a bill in the near future. --- On Wed, 9/3/08, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 6:07 PM --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_ stanley@ .. wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: Lieberman is playing with fire by endorsing McCain which obviously repudiates his previous loyalty with the Democrats in the Senate. It would appear foolish to make such a move. But there must a angle somewhere that is not apparent on the surface. Draw your own conclusions about Leiberman's character after you watch him here: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=OJTJbqKuDDM Ok, here's one straight from the Twilight Zone, but it's been amusing me lately. What if Sarah Palin is McCain's sneaky way of defying Rove (whom he pretty much *has* to hate based on the things Rove has done to McCain over the years) and getting Lieberman on the ticket anyway? Palin doesn't vet out, and has to do an Eagleton. Somebody has to fill the bill. Lieberman steps in. Karl fumes. McCain gets what he wanted in the first place, without having to take on Karl Rove head-to-head. http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/FairfieldL ife/message/ 188997 :-) ** McNuts is stuck with Palin until election day, no matter what. It's just too close to the election, and a swapout would make Mc look weak -- it just can't happen before Nov 4th. However, if Mc/Palin win, then Mc can dump her (I don't think she really wants the job anyway, so she would just announce a resignation for family/personal reasons) and pick whoever. Also, the Palin choice was made to energize the Christian right and get em to the polls to vote for a unified antiabortion ticket. Mc simply cannot pick Lieberman or Ridge, who is also prochoice: http://tinyurl. com/5a637v from: http://blogs. abcnews.com/ politicalpunch/ 2008/08/pro- choice- ridg. html
[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Chadwick jochadw1@ wrote: Leiberman lost the dem primary for his seat in '04 and was left for dead; it was the moderates and republicans who reelected him as an indy. This is a good reason for Lieberman as a form of protest against his old party. But he may be just adding salt to a wound. In practical terms, it would be difficult for him to get any cooperation from the Democrats when he needs to sponsor a bill in the near future. I hear then shun him in the lunch room. Seriously. --- On Wed, 9/3/08, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 6:07 PM --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_ stanley@ .. wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: Lieberman is playing with fire by endorsing McCain which obviously repudiates his previous loyalty with the Democrats in the Senate. It would appear foolish to make such a move. But there must a angle somewhere that is not apparent on the surface. Draw your own conclusions about Leiberman's character after you watch him here: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=OJTJbqKuDDM Ok, here's one straight from the Twilight Zone, but it's been amusing me lately. What if Sarah Palin is McCain's sneaky way of defying Rove (whom he pretty much *has* to hate based on the things Rove has done to McCain over the years) and getting Lieberman on the ticket anyway? Palin doesn't vet out, and has to do an Eagleton. Somebody has to fill the bill. Lieberman steps in. Karl fumes. McCain gets what he wanted in the first place, without having to take on Karl Rove head-to-head. http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/FairfieldL ife/message/ 188997 :-) ** McNuts is stuck with Palin until election day, no matter what. It's just too close to the election, and a swapout would make Mc look weak -- it just can't happen before Nov 4th. However, if Mc/Palin win, then Mc can dump her (I don't think she really wants the job anyway, so she would just announce a resignation for family/personal reasons) and pick whoever. Also, the Palin choice was made to energize the Christian right and get em to the polls to vote for a unified antiabortion ticket. Mc simply cannot pick Lieberman or Ridge, who is also prochoice: http://tinyurl. com/5a637v from: http://blogs. abcnews.com/ politicalpunch/ 2008/08/pro- choice- ridg. html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway?
I hear then shun him in the lunch room. Seriously. Just like in junior high school. Maybe they all get together on Monday nights to watch Gossip Girl. ...have you posted out yet? --- On Thu, 9/4/08, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 7:56 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Chadwick jochadw1@ wrote: Leiberman lost the dem primary for his seat in '04 and was left for dead; it was the moderates and republicans who reelected him as an indy. This is a good reason for Lieberman as a form of protest against his old party. But he may be just adding salt to a wound. In practical terms, it would be difficult for him to get any cooperation from the Democrats when he needs to sponsor a bill in the near future. I hear then shun him in the lunch room. Seriously. --- On Wed, 9/3/08, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 6:07 PM --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_ stanley@ .. wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: Lieberman is playing with fire by endorsing McCain which obviously repudiates his previous loyalty with the Democrats in the Senate. It would appear foolish to make such a move. But there must a angle somewhere that is not apparent on the surface. Draw your own conclusions about Leiberman's character after you watch him here: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=OJTJbqKuDDM Ok, here's one straight from the Twilight Zone, but it's been amusing me lately. What if Sarah Palin is McCain's sneaky way of defying Rove (whom he pretty much *has* to hate based on the things Rove has done to McCain over the years) and getting Lieberman on the ticket anyway? Palin doesn't vet out, and has to do an Eagleton. Somebody has to fill the bill. Lieberman steps in. Karl fumes. McCain gets what he wanted in the first place, without having to take on Karl Rove head-to-head. http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/FairfieldL ife/message/ 188997 :-) ** McNuts is stuck with Palin until election day, no matter what. It's just too close to the election, and a swapout would make Mc look weak -- it just can't happen before Nov 4th. However, if Mc/Palin win, then Mc can dump her (I don't think she really wants the job anyway, so she would just announce a resignation for family/personal reasons) and pick whoever. Also, the Palin choice was made to energize the Christian right and get em to the polls to vote for a unified antiabortion ticket. Mc simply cannot pick Lieberman or Ridge, who is also prochoice: http://tinyurl. com/5a637v from: http://blogs. abcnews.com/ politicalpunch/ 2008/08/pro- choice- ridg. html
[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To All: Lieberman is playing with fire by endorsing McCain which obviously repudiates his previous loyalty with the Democrats in the Senate. It would appear foolish to make such a move. But there must a angle somewhere that is not apparent on the surface. Draw your own conclusions about Leiberman's character after you watch him here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJTJbqKuDDM ** ON DEADLINE: Lieberman facing payback from Dems By WALTER R. MEARS, AP Special Correspondent Wed Sep 3, 6:05 AM ET ST. PAUL, Minn. - Joe Lieberman might have trouble getting a Senate parking pass next year. The Senate Democrats who control perks and, more importantly, committee chairmanships won't need his tie-breaking vote any longer. Democrats are on track to win a solid majority in the Nov. 4 elections, so time is running out on Lieberman's power as the senator whose vote kept them in control of a split Senate. Since Lieberman's re-election in Connecticut two years ago, when he ran as an independent and beat the Democratic nominee, they've had to tolerate his dissent from the party and now from its presidential ticket because his vote was crucial. That won't be so next year, and that's when the bill will come due for his effusive embrace of John McCain and his attacks on Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Lieberman was not in attack mode in his prime-time performance at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, chiding Obama but concentrating on praise of McCain in terms the Arizona senator likes to hear: independent, maverick, bipartisan. He called Obama a gifted and eloquent young man with a promising future. But eloquence is no substitute for a record not in these tough times, Lieberman said. He pitched a special appeal for McCain votes to independents and Democrats, saying his is the real ticket for change this year. I'm here, as a Democrat myself, to tell you: Don't be fooled, Lieberman said. While Lieberman has angered Democratic leaders, they haven't been able to do anything about it. Lieberman, who describes himself as an Independent Democrat, endorsed McCain for president on Dec. 17, 2007, when his friend was struggling for a comeback in the campaign for the Republican nomination. McCain called it a courageous act. At the time, Lieberman was asked whether he was concerned about Democratic punishment for his defection to the GOP candidate. I'm the 51st vote, he said, smiling. In a tied Senate, Democrats would have been the minority because Vice President Dick Cheney would have had the decisive vote. Now, 35 Senate seats are up for election, 23 of them currently held by Republicans. The Democrats are defending 12 seats. What's more, six Republican senators are retiring, leaving open seats that include prime targets for Democratic takeovers. So the odds are that the Democrats will gain a clear, perhaps commanding majority. After they do, it will be payback time for Lieberman unless McCain becomes president and he gets a Cabinet appointment. That would seem a likely reward from his old friend. Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D- Nev., said Tuesday: Sen. Reid was very disappointed in Sen. Lieberman's speech tonight, especially when he appeared to go out of his way to distort Sen. Obama's record of bipartisan achievements in the Senate. He can give all the partisan speeches he wants, but as the American people have made very clear, the last thing this country needs is another four years of the same old failed Bush-McCain policies of the past. Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2000, sought the party's presidential nomination in 2004 but got nowhere. So he went back to the Senate, where his backing for President Bush's Iraq war policy made him enemies at home. Challenged by an anti-war candidate, Lieberman sought help from national Democrats, and one who delivered it was Obama, then an emerging political star. Obama told Connecticut Democrats on March 31, 2006, that he knew Lieberman's coziness with the Bush administration was the elephant in the room, but that they should nominate him for a fourth term anyhow, for his character, qualifications and abilities. He said Connecticut should have the good sense to send Joe Lieberman back to the U.S. Senate. That's what happened, but only after Lieberman was defeated in the primary and ran as an independent candidate. Obama endorsed the Democratic nominee, Ned Lamont, in the general election. When the Illinois senator went to Connecticut to help him in the primary campaign, Lieberman called Obama a blessing for the Senate and for America. I look forward to helping him reach to the stars and realize not just the dreams he has for himself, but the
[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: Lieberman is playing with fire by endorsing McCain which obviously repudiates his previous loyalty with the Democrats in the Senate. It would appear foolish to make such a move. But there must a angle somewhere that is not apparent on the surface. Draw your own conclusions about Leiberman's character after you watch him here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJTJbqKuDDM Ok, here's one straight from the Twilight Zone, but it's been amusing me lately. What if Sarah Palin is McCain's sneaky way of defying Rove (whom he pretty much *has* to hate based on the things Rove has done to McCain over the years) and getting Lieberman on the ticket anyway? Palin doesn't vet out, and has to do an Eagleton. Somebody has to fill the bill. Lieberman steps in. Karl fumes. McCain gets what he wanted in the first place, without having to take on Karl Rove head-to-head.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: Lieberman is playing with fire by endorsing McCain which obviously repudiates his previous loyalty with the Democrats in the Senate. It would appear foolish to make such a move. But there must a angle somewhere that is not apparent on the surface. Draw your own conclusions about Leiberman's character after you watch him here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJTJbqKuDDM Ok, here's one straight from the Twilight Zone, but it's been amusing me lately. What if Sarah Palin is McCain's sneaky way of defying Rove (whom he pretty much *has* to hate based on the things Rove has done to McCain over the years) and getting Lieberman on the ticket anyway? Palin doesn't vet out, and has to do an Eagleton. Somebody has to fill the bill. Lieberman steps in. Karl fumes. McCain gets what he wanted in the first place, without having to take on Karl Rove head-to-head. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/188997 :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: Lieberman is playing with fire by endorsing McCain which obviously repudiates his previous loyalty with the Democrats in the Senate. It would appear foolish to make such a move. But there must a angle somewhere that is not apparent on the surface. Draw your own conclusions about Leiberman's character after you watch him here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJTJbqKuDDM Ok, here's one straight from the Twilight Zone, but it's been amusing me lately. What if Sarah Palin is McCain's sneaky way of defying Rove (whom he pretty much *has* to hate based on the things Rove has done to McCain over the years) and getting Lieberman on the ticket anyway? Palin doesn't vet out, and has to do an Eagleton. Somebody has to fill the bill. Lieberman steps in. Karl fumes. McCain gets what he wanted in the first place, without having to take on Karl Rove head-to-head. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/188997 :-) ** McNuts is stuck with Palin until election day, no matter what. It's just too close to the election, and a swapout would make Mc look weak -- it just can't happen before Nov 4th. However, if Mc/Palin win, then Mc can dump her (I don't think she really wants the job anyway, so she would just announce a resignation for family/personal reasons) and pick whoever. Also, the Palin choice was made to energize the Christian right and get em to the polls to vote for a unified antiabortion ticket. Mc simply cannot pick Lieberman or Ridge, who is also prochoice: http://tinyurl.com/5a637v from: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/pro-choice-ridg.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway?
Leiberman lost the dem primary for his seat in '04 and was left for dead; it was the moderates and republicans who reelected him as an indy. --- On Wed, 9/3/08, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's Up with Joe Lieberman Anyway? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 6:07 PM --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: Lieberman is playing with fire by endorsing McCain which obviously repudiates his previous loyalty with the Democrats in the Senate. It would appear foolish to make such a move. But there must a angle somewhere that is not apparent on the surface. Draw your own conclusions about Leiberman's character after you watch him here: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=OJTJbqKuDDM Ok, here's one straight from the Twilight Zone, but it's been amusing me lately. What if Sarah Palin is McCain's sneaky way of defying Rove (whom he pretty much *has* to hate based on the things Rove has done to McCain over the years) and getting Lieberman on the ticket anyway? Palin doesn't vet out, and has to do an Eagleton. Somebody has to fill the bill. Lieberman steps in. Karl fumes. McCain gets what he wanted in the first place, without having to take on Karl Rove head-to-head. http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/FairfieldL ife/message/ 188997 :-) ** McNuts is stuck with Palin until election day, no matter what. It's just too close to the election, and a swapout would make Mc look weak -- it just can't happen before Nov 4th. However, if Mc/Palin win, then Mc can dump her (I don't think she really wants the job anyway, so she would just announce a resignation for family/personal reasons) and pick whoever. Also, the Palin choice was made to energize the Christian right and get em to the polls to vote for a unified antiabortion ticket. Mc simply cannot pick Lieberman or Ridge, who is also prochoice: http://tinyurl. com/5a637v from: http://blogs. abcnews.com/ politicalpunch/ 2008/08/pro- choice-ridg. html
