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4 Things You Didn’t Know About Joe

Or maybe you did? Let’s see.

Did you know that…

  1. CT Dems State Central will consider Joe Lieberman a Democrat until he’s endorsed an unspecified number of Republican candidates? Any guesses as to what the cut-off number might be?
  2. Joe Lieberman celebrated his “Liberation Day” on August 8 2006 — the day Ned Lamont won the Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate.
  3. …According to Joe Lieberman: Milford’s Republican Mayor Jim Richetelli > House Speaker and Democrat James Amann > Will of Connecticut’s Democratic Voters.
  4. …Joe Lieberman’s portrait still hangs at the Democratic State Central Headquarters?

So I’m told, anyway.

Lieberman to Campaign for Republican Mayor of Milford

Tessa, the hardest working activist in Milford, posted this on My Left Nutmeg today:

Joe Lieberman has decided to visit Milford (CT) on October 14th to attend a Republican fundraising event where he will provide an endorsement for the Republican candidate for Mayor.

There, that’s as calmly as I can put it.

Click here to continue reading Tessa’s diary. I haven’t much more to say except that Kerri Rowland is the Democratic candidate for Mayor of Milford, and she’s accepting donations online.

Lieberman Worst Person In the World

Senator Lieberman finally garnered top honors yesterday on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Though he’s been nominated before, tonight was the first time I’ve seen that Senator Lieberman was nominated for worst. There is some blogosphere backstory on why he earned it, from bigdaveinqueens over at MLN:

[The guests invited to Sean Hannitys "Freedom Concert"] include vile, hateful bigots like Bob Grant and Mark Levin, Oliver North of course, Rudy Giuliani, Joe Lieberman, and Ann Coulter.

Coulter is perhaps the most evil woman in America, having blamed Jews for the Holocaust, advocating the murder of billions across the globe, calling 9/11 widows harpies who enjoyed seeing their husbands die, and asserting that her only regret about Timothy McVeigh is that he didn’t blow up the New York Times building.

If there were any questions about Joe Lieberman’s sanity and independence, Joe Lieberman’s attendance at this concert (on 9/11 no less) with Ann Coulter should be the final nail in the coffin.

Here are links to some of Joe’s previous nominations:

And of course, here’s the video of Lieberman being named the Sept. 11, 2007 nominee for Worst Person in the World (h/t Scarce):

YKos: CT For Lieberman

CGG and I published a post on My Left Nutmeg this morning about last night’s pub quiz that I highly recommend you check out at this link:

We were of course confident that we would be victorious, but in true Lieber-fashion had a plan b. Halfway through the quiz the team began collecting signatures demanding that Team CFL be allowed to reform as another team multiple times until we won.

Following our Lieberman-style victory at last night’s pub quiz, I received a congratulatory e-mail from Dr. John Orman, chairman of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party:

As the elected Chair of CFL I want to congratulate you and the rest of the CFL pub team on your showing at Daily Kos Pub night quiz.
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Never quit even after you lose the game. Tell the people at the convention that the CFL is alive in Connecticut and we will do everything we can to help keep Joe accountable. Thanks, Dr. John Orman

CFL is alive!

Bill Curry on Joe Lieberman

Check this out. It’s from Bill Curry’s column in Sunday’s Hartford Courant, emphasis added:

[Joe Lieberman] went on drifting right, but changed in other ways. He began attacking the motives of his adversaries, members mostly of his own party. This, more than anything, sparked the uprising that led to his primary defeat at the hands of novice Ned Lamont.

In the general election, Joe reassured war-weary voters that “I hear you.” He lashed out at Lamont for saying otherwise. “I’m not for staying the course,” he growled convincingly. “Nobody wants to get out of Iraq more than I do.” Connecticut voters took him at his word…

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This past week, the White House issued an interim Iraq report. It claims progress on just eight of 18 “benchmarks” and stretches even for that. Iraq was supposed to complete a constitutional review, but gets a passing grade for forming the committee. And so on. To read it is to be sick at heart.

Unless, of course, you’re Joe Lieberman, who says he read it and found nothing to cast the least doubt on our plan of action. In fact, he’s now sure the war can only be lost by “defeatists at home.”

Senator Lieberman was willing to say anything to win the election. Now he’s willing to say anything to keep the troops from coming home, shifting the blame for losing the war onto the critics that are only to blame for him losing the Democratic Primary.

Colin McEnroe Talks to CFL Chairman Dr. John Orman



Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of Senator Lieberman promising Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz that he would form his own political party as opposed to using it as a front to keep his name on the ballot in November. We all know how that turned out. Lieberman lied to Bysiewicz and the electorate (the least of his lies, to be sure, but still a lie), and neither joined nor formed his “party.”

But someone did. Fairfield University professor Dr. John Orman changed his registration to Connecticut for Lieberman in December after the November ballots were certified, and called a meeting of all registerd CFL party members. At this meeting, Dr. Orman was elected chairman and rules were adopted. This week, he sent a letter to Bysiewicz calling for action against Senator Lieberman for knowingly circulating a false petition.

Colin McEnroe and CFL Party Chairman Dr. John Orman – 2007-07-10

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Brian Lockhart of The Stamford Advocate reported on Dr. Orman’s letter to the Secretary of State
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Orman late last night wrote Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz and Jeffrey Garfield, executive director of the Elections Enforcement Commission, requesting they have the state attorney general’s office investigate Lieberman for misleading state officials and voters.

“It is against state law to knowingly circulate a false petition, and I believe Senator Joseph Lieberman did that,” Orman wrote. “The secretary of the state accepted Senator Lieberman at his word that he would form a new minor party so he could get maximum ballot access. . . . It has become clear Senator Lieberman had absolutely no intent whatsoever, at anytime, to join or form a new minor party in Connecticut.”

CFL Secretary Sue has more over at My Left Nutmeg.

You may be asking what good any of this CFL stuff will do? It won’t remove Lieberman from office. It will not convince him to step down gracefully (he could have done that last August). It will not change his mind on the major issues of the day. It won’t even shame him, because the man clearly has no shame.

The Connecticut for Lieberman Party serves as a continual reminder that Joe Lieberman is a self-serving shapeshifter who is a shining example of why people generally distrust and despise politicians.