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Dodd Opens the Door for Joe

Connecticut Bob posted something disturbing today (in addition to the creepy Bill O’Reilly audio clips that are making the rounds ::shudder::) about how Senator Chris Dodd intends to be the one who opens the door to let Sen. Joe Lieberman back into the metaphorical family home of the Democractic Party. Bob writes:

Joe Lieberman has been, for all intents and purposes, forgiven by Chris Dodd and the Senate leadership for his little foray over to the dark side in 2007-08.

Of course, Lieberman wants to have it both ways, and he continues to call himself an “Independent Democrat”. I don’t know if that’s supposed to be a party designation or simply an expression of what a wild and unpredictable “free-thinker” Lieberman fancies himself to be.

Using his video expertise, Bob put together footage from Sen. Dodd’s appearance on Face the State with tape of Joe Lieberman stumping for McCain:

Below is how I imagine things went on the day that Joe Lieberman decided that he wanted to rejoin the Democratic Party:

*Knock-knock*

Sen. Chris Dodd: Who’s there?

Sen. Joe Lieberman: Why, it’s Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman. I plan to endorse you in 2010, won’t you let me in?

Sen. Chris Dodd: Sure!

What I have trouble illustrating with words above is that it seems that Senator Dodd could not open the door fast enough.

Senator Dodd has many redeeming qualities–and I am a big fan of his work–but his soft-spot for Joe Lieberman goes a long way toward overshadowing all of them.

Joe Lieberman, You’re So Funny

I forgot to laugh:

[A]t the weird ritual known as the Annual Alfalfa Club Dinner, outgoing club President Joe Lieberman decided it was a good time to test out some new material that involved that goldmine of comedy material known as torture.

Once inside the banquet hall, which is always off-limits to the media, the Alfalfans took turns trying to crack each other up. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) — the club’s outgoing president — noted that former vice president Richard B. Cheney injured himself while moving into his new home, according to a source inside the dinner.

“I had no idea waterboards were so heavy,” Lieberman quipped.

Here is an ad from Amnesty International that shows–briefly–a graphic demonstration of waterboarding:

If after all these years you needed some more evidence that Joe Lieberman’s moral compass is broken, this is it. Joe Lieberman is a man who rails against depictions of violence in video games for adults, but thinks that torture devices make a dandy punchline.

Joe2006.com Not Hacked, Apologies Requested

The investigation into the primary election day crashing of Joe Lieberman’s website at Joe2006.com is over. Gabe gives the rundown at CT Local Politics, but I just want my apology.

As a Lamont supporter who is also known to be a blogger and a user of the internet, I was one of the amorphous group of Lamont supporters who were accused of “hacking” Joe Lieberman’s website.

I am waiting for my apology. Senator Lieberman, Marion Steinfels, Dan Gerstein and Sean Smith may address their apologies to LiebermanIsSoVerySorry AT spazeboy.net. All will be cheerfully accepted and posted to the blog.

10 Commandments Weekend

Surprise, surprise! Joe Lieberman is up to something that offends me. This time he’s co-sponsoring — actually, he’s the only co-sponsor — legislation with Sam Brownback that will designate the first weekend in May as “Ten Commandments Weekend” because May doesn’t have enough state-sanctioned supernatural hooey in it.

Friendly Atheist asks three good questions:

Which version of the Ten Commandments is Brownback referring to?

What do the first four Commandments have to do with anything?

Whom do I dislike more: Brownback or Lieberman?

As to which version, it seems that the orthodoxies of Brownback (Catholic) and Lieberman (Jewish) disagree on what the Ten Commandments are.

As to what the first four have to do with anything, I’d love for someone to explain that to me too.

As to which Senator Hemant dislikes more, I think it’s probably Brownback.

Five Years…

…of war.

MikeCT has a run-down of events around the state today over at MLN, and excerpted below are the ones I think are nearest to New Britain:

Hartford
• 11:30 AM Kick off at Senator Lieberman’s office, 1 Constitution Plaza.
  Gather at corner of Market St and Kinsley St.
• 12 noon Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice – Interfaith Prayer Service at Center Church, 60 Gold St. Then a march to the Federal Building, 450 Main St.
• 7 pm  Candlelight vigil, Elizabeth Park

West Hartford
7 pm.  Candlight vigil, Corner Main & Farmington

There is also an April 12 event at Wesleyan University: Statewide Anti-War Student Conference and Rally.

McCain’s Monica? Enter Indignant Joe!

CT Bob is praying that the story in the NY Times about John McCain is true. The NY Times report broke news about McCain’s possible romantic involvement with a woman who is not his wife, way back in 2000.

Personally, I could care less who John McCain is or is not doing the horizontal polka with, but I am excited by this possibility raised by CT Bob:

I just realized that if it turns out McCain was indeed boning this woman, we’ll possibly be treated with the spectacle of Joe Lieberman wagging his finger at him from the Senate floor! Holy fucking shit!

Transcript, with slight modifications emphasized:

“Such behavior is not just inappropriate, it is immoral. And it is harmful, for it sends a message about what is acceptable behavior to the larger American family, particularly to our children.
[...]
He failed to show that he understood that his behavior diminished the office he hopes to hold, and the country he serves, and that it is inconsistent with the conservative mainstream values that he has advanced, as a Republican candidate for president”

Joe wouldn’t do that to McCain of course, because he would only be screwing himself. The “Straight Talk Express” is the only ride he’s got.