Joe Lieberman has got to Go

Old Joe, the page-porking hypocrite who is always looking for a way to snuggle up a little closer to his Republican friends, is up for re-election in 2006.

Let's help defeat him. I'm sure there are some worthy Democrats in Connecticut who would be honored to have his seat in the Senate and hey, who knows? they might even wash all the filth off of it that he has put there over the last twelve years.

I suggest we begin by writing to Old Joe to express our displeasure with the job he's been doing. C'mon guys, it only costs 37 cents and you'll finally get to ask him why he came down so hard on Clinton when he himself has been implicated in a Capitol affair or two. You'll also get to ask why he still supports the war in Iraq when even public opinion, that most brutish of masters, has turned against it--does he still want to suckle at the administration's teat? Of course he does!

Ask Joe why, if he's so damn pious, he's such a bad person. Ask him why his was one of the first voices urging retreat after the election of 2000 and again in 2004--elections, it turns out, the Democrats won.

Finally, ask Old Joe why he felt the need to circumvent Harry Reid, the leader of his party in the Senate, and broker a DOA compromise at the eleventh hour--a compromise he helped announce a mere five minutes before Reid's primetime speech in which he was to take a stand against Republican arrogance and malfeasance. Why did Joe Lieberman feel the need to make his leader look stupid?

The answer, though Lieberman won't give it to you, is that Joe Lieberman stands for NOTHING except his own advancement. He still thinks he can be President. He stood to benefit in 2000 no matter how the election turned out, and as a conservative Democrat (is such a thing really possible?) he already had a Senate seat in hand and huge name recognition leftover from the campaign. In 2004, he just wanted to get his face back on TV. With Iraq, insurance reform, television violence (he supports censorship of movies and music), and now the filibuster, he wants to stand out from his party and to appear as a compromise choice in the Senate. He is not a compromiser, however. Joe Lieberman is a sellout. He stands for nothing unless it can be turned into political capital; he is a pale imitation of a Republican who found a seat on the wrong side of the aisle. His commitments are as thin as tissue paper and when anything stronger than a breeze blows, he flies away with it.

We can't survive with more people like Lieberman. Let's begin immediately with the work it will take to bring him down.

Begin voicing your displeasure by writing or calling him in DC:

706 Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4041
Voice(202) 224-9750

Or CT:
One Constitution Plaza
7th Floor
Hartford, CT 06103
(860) 549-8463
Voice(800) 225-5605
In CT(860) 549-8478