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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.

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.

…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.

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.

At State Central there’s this wall with poorly hung and framed 8×10 photos of the state’s top elected Democrats (Congresspersons, Senators, and Constitutional Officers). For some reason, Joe Lieberman’s picture continued to hang there until very recently despite his losing the Democratic Primary and challenging the nominee, despite his endorsement of/fundraising for Republican Senator Susan Collins, and despite his endorsement of Milford’s Republican Mayor Jim Richetelli.

Though Lieberman got away with this crap, it was only a matter of time before he would make a fool of the Connecticut Democrats on a national stage. He did so in a big way by endorsing John McCain. This act killed two birds with one stone, because in itself the endorsement was more about Lieberman maintaining some form of relevance than it was about McCain and because it finally — FINALLY — moved CT Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo to take down Joe’s picture, and speak about how Joe Lieberman is sabotaging the Democratic Party:

I am surprised and disappointed by Senator Lieberman’s choice to support Senator McCain in the 2008 election for President of the United States. For many years, I have held Senator Lieberman’s work and his views as a member of the Connecticut Democratic Party in high esteem, but I consider this choice to be not only a departure from his past practice, but also a departure from the principles that we as a Party hold dear.

OK, so she didn’t speak to Joe’s efforts as a saboteur. But the picture is in fact down, as MattW reported from State Central last night:

Since when must you betray a group FOUR times to have your membership symbolically questioned? Since the group leader is a milquetoast, that’s when. BranfordBoy has the solution to this problem, and it involves all of us progressive Democrats with backbones getting off our duffs and taking over our DTCs:

So what to do? I suggest we start by turning our attention to the eccentric aunt in our little family. You know, the dear but dotty old gal at the family gathering whose ancient knickers have fallen into a puddle around her ankles and who gamely carries on as if nothing is amiss.

I am referring of course, to Nancy DiNardo. When Joe Lieberman pissed all over the Party in the 2006 election, all Nancy DiNardo could say was “Yum!” (Or words to that effect. Perhaps Scarce can dig up the video clip.) She continues to praise our embarrassing eccentric junior senator with faint damns.

Isn’t it high time that she was — gently and respectfully — guided to retirement?

The process has actually begun. MyLeftNutmeg has played (I would like to think) an important role in getting more and more progressive Dems on DTCs around the state. That movement needs to continue and intensify. By my perhaps faulty reckoning we have three election cycles before the 2012 elections to create truly progressive DTCs across the state. The first one is this January. If you’re not already on your DTC, get hopping!

At the same time, progressives already on their DTCs need to back progressive candidates for the State Central Committee. Perhaps step up to the plate yourself and put your name into the running. That’s what we’re doing in Branford. How’s about where you live?

Scarce brings up this old clip from the Lieberman/Lamont debate in light of Lieberman’s expected endorsement of John McCain.

CT Bob has already dubbed it “The Kiss: Part Deux”

Joe has been on a bit of a winning streak lately, having endorsed incumbent mayors of Milford and Hartford who won re-election, but if the Lieberman endorsement is what revives and makes McCain’s candidacy, I’ll consider eating my hat. I mean, any asshole can endorse incumbents and claim to be a kingmaker when they win, right? If so, then Lieberman certainly qualifies.