Lieberman
Polls Are In: People Really Do Hate Joe Lieberman (12/23/2009)
On Healthcare
Senator Lieberman received Contributions from health & insurance interests of $3,308,621 so it is not surprising that he reiterated his threat To support a GOP filibuster.
Lieberman says "the public doesn't support the public option". A recent survey shows he is wrong. "More than three out of every four Americans feel it is important to have a "choice" between a government-run health care insurance option and private coverage, according to a public opinion poll..." Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/new-poll-77-percent-suppo_n_264375.html
Actually, A Public Option would save many Billions (9/1/2009)
Morning Joe repeatedly airs Lieberman's false claim on public option
Why Lieberman Blocks a Public Option (Nov 10,2009)
Lieberman Reiterates Threat To Support GOP Filibuster (10/14/2009)
"Even after supporting John McCain, Lieberman still holds a top rank within the Senate Democratic Caucus as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The Senate Democratic Steering Committee needs to know just how much of a conflict of interest this is. That's why Lieberman Must Go. Sign the petition at http://BoldProgressives.org/majorityvote"
On Finance
Lieberman enabled our current financial collapse by voting for the repeal of Glass-Steagle, the law that separated taxpayer insured deposits from wild speculation.
"The power of our private managers over our public servants was exemplified by the ability of business lobbyists to persuade Congress to nullify the 1993 attempt by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to require stock options to be expensed in corporate earnings statements. In June 1993, Senator Joseph Lieberman introduced a bill condemning the FASB’s attempt, which passed the Senate overwhelmingly. He later introduced a side bill that would have put the FASB out of business if it implemented its option-expensing initiative. The FASB had little choice but to retreat, a sad example of legislation interfering in accounting decisions." John C. Bogle in The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism pg 39
On Elections
Vote counting cannot be privatized to hard-right partisans if we are to have real elections. Partisans have installed machines that are blatantly hackable, and unauditable. Election rigging is now mostly computer crime. Lieberman was one of the leaders on the HAVA (Help America Vote Act which perpetuated the problem.
Silence on the Senator (10/28/2009)
On War
Joe Lieberman is a war hawk, plain and simple. He staunchly supported George Bush's War in Iraq and John McCain's plan to stay in Iraq for 100 years.
Lieberman: United States Must Pre-Emptively Act In Yemen 27 Dec 2009 Sen. Joseph Lieberman, (I-Israel) a renowned hawk and one of the foremost champions of the invasion of Iraq, warned on Sunday that the United States faced "danger" unless it pre-emptively acts to curb the rise of terrorism in Yemen. "Somebody in our government said to me in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, Iraq was yesterday's war. Afghanistan is today's war. If we don't act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow's war. That's the danger we face," LIEberman said during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday." (From CLG news)
Joe Lieberman's declaration of war on Iran
Lieberman/Kyl provocation against Iran. 10/13/2007
Jon Stewart Slams Media, Lieberman Over Military Spending (4/10/2009)
On Homeland Security
Senator Lieberman was instrumental in approving Michael Brown to head FEMA with the explanation that Bush should have any appointee that he wants. No. He shouldn't. He put cronies, Enron refugees, Iran-Contra felons, corporate lobbyists, ideologues, religious zealots, and other party hacks and unqualified operatives in to public positions and the predictable results were seen in the aftermath of Katrina, the Iraq War, and the massive debt runup. It is profitable though. Naomi Klein in her insightful book "The Shock Doctrine" describes disaster capitalism as a new paradigm.
Michael Moore responds to Lieberman (9/5/2008)
Senator Joe Lieberman echoed a GOP talking point by promising
that the new president will be welcomed by a terror attack in 2009,
continuing a disturbing trend of talking heads anxiously relishing
a catastrophic pretext to reinvigorate the Neo-Con agenda.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2008/063008_latest_pitch.htm
Lieberman: It’s ‘a good question’ to ask if Obama is ‘a Marxist.’
Military Commissions Act
In 2006 Rep. Nancy Johnson, Chris Shays, Rob Simmons and Sen. Lieberman all voted for the Military Commissions Act and it passed.(From 10/18/06 CLG news) Keith Olbermann:
"President [sic] Bush, happy Habeas Corpus Day. First thing this morning, the president signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which does away with habeas corpus, the right of suspected terrorists or anybody else to know why they have been imprisoned, provided the president does not think it should apply to you and declares you an enemy combatant... Does that not basically mean that if Mr. Bush or Mr. Rumsfeld say so, anybody in this country, citizen or not, innocent or not, can end up being an unlawful enemy combatant? Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Constitutional Law Professor: It certainly does. In fact, later on, it says that if you even give material support to an organization that the president deems connected to one of these groups, you too can be an enemy combatant. And the fact that he appoints this tribunal is meaningless. You know, standing behind him at the signing ceremony was his attorney general, who signed a memo that said that you could torture people, that you could do harm to them to the point of organ failure or death. So if he appoints someone like that to be attorney general, you can imagine who he’s going be putting on this board."
DINO
Lieberman's alliance with the Republican Party runs ever deeper. He endorsed and stumped for McCain, wanted to be the star of the Republican National Convention, and has even served on a 527 group that smeared Barack Obama with a nasty attack ad.
Lieberman willing to star at Republican convention
Lieberman wants to be judged on the job he has done.
Lieberman's record
includes...
It may cost Lieberman (5/14/2008)
Providing cover for Joe Lieberman
Lieberman: Hamas endorsement shows difference with McCain (5/12/2008)
Lieberman gets Worst Person in the World award.
Lieberman's bill on the floor.
People of Connecticut are not represented by Senator Lieberman. They should have the right to recall him. (Note)