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Joementum (jÅ-mÄ•n'tÉ™m) n., 1. neologism coined to indicate momentum where none was obvious to anyone but the candidate. 2. a portmanteau referring to the perceived lack of potential for success of a campaign or endeavor. Lieberman's Campaign Manager:
"[Lieberman] ran for vice president. He ran for president. He hasn't really had a dialogue with Connecticut voters about Connecticut issues in a while."
Lieberman, living the lavish life of an insulated Senator, hanging out with lobbyists and neoconservative ideologues at cocktail parties - has absolutely no connection to actual people anymore.That might explain why he has taken such out-of-the-mainstream positions in support of the Iraq War the UAE ports deal. It might explain why he sees no problem hanging out at parties with some of the most extremist right-wing forces in America. It might explain why he has so ardently supported corporate-written trade deals that sell blue collar Connecticut workers out. Because those positions and that behavior is acceptable to someone who has caught such a bad case of Potomac Fever, they have become wholly disconnected from reality.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., said he had not read it either and wasn't inclined simply to scold the president."I'd prefer to see us solve the problem," Lieberman told reporters.
Joe Lieberman, 1998:
... the transgressions the president has admitted to are too consequential for us to walk away and leave the impression for our children today and for our posterity tomorrow that what he acknowledges he did within the White House is acceptable behavior for our nation's leader. On the contrary, as I have said, it is wrong and unacceptable and should be followed by some measure of public rebuke and accountability.
The day Al Gore picked that insufferable, sanctimonious gasbag as the Democratic nominee for Vice president was one of the lowest of my life. That speech was the single most disloyal public political act of my lifetime. The Republicans were shrill, shrieking hyenas, foaming at the mouth, circling in for the kill --- and that preening showboater stepped into the well of the senate and used his image as a moral exemplar to try to validate their bullshit partisan witch hunt. It was unforgivable. But he got lots of fawning press coverage from the Republicans and the beltway establishment and it evidently got into his blood. He can't stop doing it.
What Lieberman said today about a short drive to a hospital is immensely cruel....Having a medical procedure done, any medical procedure, is embarrassing, intrusive, and scary, especially in a system as fucked up as ours where doctors don't really care about you because they are paid to avoid mistakes with paperwork. When you combine with this making the decision to have children or not, and maybe in a bunch of cases dumbfuck boyfriends who either aren't around or aren't helpful, the agony for some women is just immense. To talk about hospitals denying legal medical care because commuting is easy in Connecticut is really monstrous. It's so out of touch, so banal in the evil sense, and so downright elitist and cowardly.
And you know you've really hit the skids when you're the villain in your own text adventure game. I'd score today: Lamont 1, Lieberman 0.
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Great post. A while back I posted a list of a bunch of reasons why Lieberman must go on my own site, but thought it might be worth repeating here.
Lieberman acts as if his support of the war is the only reason so many Democrats have turned on him. Let’s count out some of the reasons:
1. His anti-free speech attacks on movies, music and video games.
2. He thinks prayer belongs in public schools
3. He was handpicked by William F. Buckley Jr. to run against Lowell Weicker for the Senate because conservatives couldn’t stomach an honest-to-God liberal Republican like Weicker.
4. He thinks lying about blow jobs justify impeachment hearings, but lying about the reasons for going to war, illegal spying on U.S. citizens, etc., don’t reach the level of high crimes.
5. He backed Dubya on tax cuts, the bankruptcy bill and the Patriot Act.
6. He’s against medical marijuana.
7. In the 2000 vice presidential debate, he managed to make Cheney look good.
8. He’s another chickenhawk who used deferments to avoid military service during Vietnam.
9. He prides himself as a paragon of virtue and a deeply religious man, but what exactly caused his first marriage to end in divorce? Only reason I can find is that the pressures of his political life broke the marriage. I can’t find the date for when his 2nd wife, Hadassah, divorced her first husband — a rabbi no less, so there’s no way to see how close those divorces corresponded to the Liebermans’ marriage in 1983.
Remember what Harry Truman said: Given a choice between a Republican and a Democrat who acts like a Republican, the voters will go for the Republican. Go Ned Lamont — take Lieberman out.
XYZZY!
When I Joey with a coat hanger I thought it was to up hold the anti-abortion law in South Dakota.
Lieberman:
WHAT
A
TURD.
Great to see the you are moving to the new site especailly as big DoD is now blocking access to all blogs.
Oh Joementum what a bunch of BS. I wonder has Gore apologized to Clinton for naming this rethug lite to the democratic ticket?
I write to him once a week and ask him to join the Republican party or retire. His reply is always, I only answer mail from my constituents. Does anyone have a CT address I could use?
Oh, I also question his honesty and integrity.
He doesn’t like that.