OK, perhaps its unfair to lay JOE LIEBERMAN's chronic treachery - emboldening the Bush-Cheney assault on democracy, serially trying to undercut the Democrat's ability to reign in same - at the feet of HILLARY CLINTON.
BUT! Hillary has pretensions of being the leader of America, and (thus) being the leader of the free world. And in case Hillary hasn't noticed, THE GREATEST THREAT to America is the ruinous right-wing leadership of the Bush-Cheney administration: the ones who did NOTHING in the way of retribution against Al Qaida for the USS Cole attack in October of 2000 (while Bush and his "foreign policy experts" were all on the campaign trail, and presumably aware of Al Qaida's murderous attack on a US military ship); the ones who did NOTHING to make a massive, coordinated hijacking even a LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT in the summer of 2001; the ones who did NOTHING to capture the Anthrax attackers; the ones who did NOTHING to warn New York post-9-11 recovery responders of the toxins in the air they were breathing; the ones who did NOTHING to capture bin Laden at Tora Bora, the ones who did NOTHING to SECURE SADDAM's AMMUNITION COMPLEXES, thereby GIVING thieves and insurgents TONS and TONS and TONS of munitions and high-explosives on a silver platter - under the gaze of US reconnaissance satellites, even! The Bush-Cheney White House were also the ones who PROMOTED THE TORTURE GENERALS, (Miller, Fast, and others) and brought the infamous "Guantanamo" torture/abuse/sensory deprivation methods from the US prison in Guantanamo to Iraq and Afghanistan, while runing kangaroo courts for only privates and low-level enlisted men and women, thereby giving America's reputation a huge black mark in the eyes of the world
In supporting the Bush-Cheney White House conduct of the war, JOE LIEBERMAN also helps to DISENFRANCHISE those citizens in New Orleans who have been LEFT IN THE MUD by the Bush administration's appalling 'reconstruction' priorities... which fail to include an overall environmental master plan, so communities and businesses could better plan their own reconstruction strategies, which they are currently unable to do.
Now all of this would be hard to lay at the feet of HILLARY CLINTON..... EXCEPT that her close political advisor JAMES CARVILLE recently blasted DNC Chairman Howard Dean for, in Carville's fervid imagination, "HOARDING" cash in the last hours of mid-term election 2006, cash that could, the ragin' Carville sputtered, have won a few more close races for the Democrats that critical November Tuesday. BUT on closer inspection Carville's raging was doubly troubling... for it wasn't CASH in the DNC's treasury that Carville was so incensed that Dean DIDN'T spend.. it was a CREDIT LINE at the DNC headquarters. Meanwhile... WHO WAS sitting on a pile of cash that last crucial week of October 2006??
- Why, NONE OTHER THAN HILLARY CLINTON, THE go-to gal from AIPAC! (Which, given the Boxers and Feinsteins in Congress, is saying a lot.) Cleary AIPAC was behind the reelection campaign of Joe Lieberman, just as they were behind the reelection campaign of HILLARY CLINTON. And, _IF_ Hillary Clinton had been A LEADER of the "DEMOCRATIC PARTY," SHE COULD HAVE PUT MORE EFFORT - and money - into the election campaign of the Connecticut DEMOCRATIC senate candidate, NED LAMONT!
But NO.... as Clinton friend James Carville has so happily (if inadvertently) pointed out for us, Hillary SAT ON HER CASH in the late days of election 2006 (having wrapped up a safe, overwhelming majority in New York), she did VERY LITTLE to support the Ned Lamont campaign... and thus has, we now see clearly, helped to UNDERMINE THE SENATE MAJORITY only 3 or 4 or 5 weeks after the Democrats regained that majority in the US Senate!
GOOD GOING, HILLARY! Is THIS the template for your future "leadership" - HELP the Republicans retain DOMINANT CONTROL OVER all THE ISSUES and AGENDAS the US senate is "ALLOWED" to discuss?
Hillary Clinton - Taking her MARCHING ORDERS from JOE LIEBERMAN, AIPAC, the REPUBLICAN MINORITY, and thus KARL ROVE's (and Dick Cheney's) FAX MACHINE.
Only 4 weeks after the Democrats majority of the senate has proven to be a paper tiger, Hillary's "LEADERSHIP" looks even more sad, pathetic, and formless than John Kerry's in 2004.
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Lieberman Says War Vote Could Prompt Party Switch
By: Carrie Budoff
February 22, 2007
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0207/2865.html
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., left to right, Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speak about Iraq on Capitol Hill, Feb. 1, 2007, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut told the Politico on Thursday that he has no immediate plans to switch parties but suggested that Democratic opposition to funding the war in Iraq might change his mind.
Lieberman, a self-styled independent who caucuses with the Democrats, has been among the strongest supporters of the war and President Bush’s plan to send an additional 21,500 combat troops into Iraq to help quell the violence there.
"I have no desire to change parties," Lieberman said in a telephone interview. "If that ever happens, it is because I feel the majority of Democrats have gone in a direction that I don't feel comfortable with."
Asked whether that hasn't already happened with Iraq, Lieberman said: "We will see how that plays out in the coming months," specifically how the party approaches the issue of continued funding for the war.
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He suggested, however, that the forthcoming showdown over new funding could be a deciding factor that would lure him to the Republican Party.
"I hope we don't get to that point," Lieberman said. "That's about all I will say on it today. That would hurt."
Republicans have long targeted Lieberman to switch – a move that would give them control of the Senate. And Time magazine is set to report Friday that there is a “remote” chance Lieberman would join the GOP.
