One of Chinless Joe Lieberman's long-time friends and colleagues, Irving Stolberg, has revealed that he will not be supporting his pal of 38 years in the next election. In fact, he will be voting for Ned Lamont, Chinless Joe's opponent.
His reasons? Well, let's hear it from him.
His blind support of the Iraq war, begun illegally and a continuing catastrophe, is monstrous.
And his defense of an incompetent president, a vice president who fits the dictionary definition of fascism and an extremist administration that has perpetrated torture, illegal eavesdropping and a general shredding of the Constitution is insulting to the people who elected him in the first place.
Good on ya, Irving. Nice to see a mote of integrity from a public official. The only thing left to do is watch Chinless Joe go all Zell Miller on us. That'll be good for a laugh, a sort of hollow and pitying kind of laugh.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
How Dare Connecticut Elect Someone Other Than Chinless Joe!
Joe Lieberman is a stain on the tapestry of American politics. Sure, he's one of many but he's a stain nonetheless.
He's a turncoat Democrat who is much more aligned with the GOP powerbosses than he is with his own party or his constituents (remember them, Joe? they are the people who's interests you are supposed to be representing).
That he parrots GOP talking points and denounces any criticisms against Bush during a time of war (that was begun on false pretenses but let's not play the blame game, okay?) is just more grist for the mill. Chinless Joe is about as worthless an elected representative as there can be. His focus is himself, his interest is himself, his passion is, well, completely gone and he's just a lame old hack trying to dance on a sinking ship.
Duncan Black writes about him more eloquently in this Op-Ed piece for the LA Times.
The elections can't come soon enough so that Chinless Joe can be tossed aside like the used rubber that he is.
He's a turncoat Democrat who is much more aligned with the GOP powerbosses than he is with his own party or his constituents (remember them, Joe? they are the people who's interests you are supposed to be representing).
That he parrots GOP talking points and denounces any criticisms against Bush during a time of war (that was begun on false pretenses but let's not play the blame game, okay?) is just more grist for the mill. Chinless Joe is about as worthless an elected representative as there can be. His focus is himself, his interest is himself, his passion is, well, completely gone and he's just a lame old hack trying to dance on a sinking ship.
Duncan Black writes about him more eloquently in this Op-Ed piece for the LA Times.
The elections can't come soon enough so that Chinless Joe can be tossed aside like the used rubber that he is.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
The Army Spits Out Halliburton's Fetid Teat
US Army to end Halliburton deal. Now let's see how badly they have been overcharging for their services in Iraq, I've heard they charged $300 for a single meal for a soldier.
And in other news, Dubya is crowing about only adding $300 billion to his deficit, not the $420 or so that he'd been planning on spending. And he's going to pretend like he's doing a great job despite the massively fucked up everything he's presided over.
"Let's not boast about a $300 billion deficit," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "Any statistic you look at recognizes the rich in America are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and the middle class is getting squeezed."
But even the conservative Heritage Foundation thinks this is all bullshit. With a $246 billion revenue increase slightly outpacing a $224 billion spending increase in 2006 alone, 100 percent of the $22 billion deficit reduction has resulted from taxpayers sending more money to Washington. Lawmakers have not cut one dollar from the budget. and There is no way revenues can cover all of this projected spending. Lawmakers therefore must remain vigilant on spending. They should focus on pursuing long-term entitlement reform and creating a budget process compatible with spending restraint.
Notwithstanding the fact that his pet war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina relief efforts are not included in those figures even though we, the people, will still have to be paying for all of that as well. I don't get how they are legally empowered to only report part of the deficit and part of the budget. WTF? A budget includes everything being spent, not just the non-depressing parts. Think about how loud and long your credit card company would laugh if you told them you no longer considered, say, "incidentals" to be billable and you were going to ignore them on your bills from now on.
Do you know Dubya has signed every single piece of legislation put in front of him, every single one. I wonder if he even bothers to read them before signing or if he even looks at what he's signing?
And yet here he is on the news this morning, acting like he singlehandedly capture Osama bin Laden (oh wait, the CIA is no longer looking for him maybe I should change that to capture all those pesky terrorists). You don't think they estimate high so that he can get just a tiny bit of good news, even if its utterly fake and lies anyway? This is your government, this is your president, this is why the US is so maligned around the world, because our "leaders" are shameless crooks, liars and just outright morons.
Tags: US Army, Halliburton, no deal
And in other news, Dubya is crowing about only adding $300 billion to his deficit, not the $420 or so that he'd been planning on spending. And he's going to pretend like he's doing a great job despite the massively fucked up everything he's presided over.
"Let's not boast about a $300 billion deficit," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "Any statistic you look at recognizes the rich in America are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and the middle class is getting squeezed."
But even the conservative Heritage Foundation thinks this is all bullshit. With a $246 billion revenue increase slightly outpacing a $224 billion spending increase in 2006 alone, 100 percent of the $22 billion deficit reduction has resulted from taxpayers sending more money to Washington. Lawmakers have not cut one dollar from the budget. and There is no way revenues can cover all of this projected spending. Lawmakers therefore must remain vigilant on spending. They should focus on pursuing long-term entitlement reform and creating a budget process compatible with spending restraint.
Notwithstanding the fact that his pet war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina relief efforts are not included in those figures even though we, the people, will still have to be paying for all of that as well. I don't get how they are legally empowered to only report part of the deficit and part of the budget. WTF? A budget includes everything being spent, not just the non-depressing parts. Think about how loud and long your credit card company would laugh if you told them you no longer considered, say, "incidentals" to be billable and you were going to ignore them on your bills from now on.
Do you know Dubya has signed every single piece of legislation put in front of him, every single one. I wonder if he even bothers to read them before signing or if he even looks at what he's signing?
And yet here he is on the news this morning, acting like he singlehandedly capture Osama bin Laden (oh wait, the CIA is no longer looking for him maybe I should change that to capture all those pesky terrorists). You don't think they estimate high so that he can get just a tiny bit of good news, even if its utterly fake and lies anyway? This is your government, this is your president, this is why the US is so maligned around the world, because our "leaders" are shameless crooks, liars and just outright morons.
Tags: US Army, Halliburton, no deal
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