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Lieberman Wins Republican Friends, Democratic Enemies

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Posted by Steve White 2005-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "There have even been rumors that Lieberman is being considered as a replacement for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld"
I was thinking this too, but he wouldn't leave his safe position.

Posted by Jan 2005-12-10 00:46|| 2005-12-10 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Weicker has a lot of baggage and Connecticut has a long memory.

Posted by Pappy 2005-12-10 00:51|| 2005-12-10 00:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe Lieberman should form a new Democratic Party in an attempt to save the Democrats from drowning themselves in complete irrelevance. He could steal the old Firesign Theatre campaign slogan "Not Insane".

Posted by SteveS 2005-12-10 01:13|| 2005-12-10 01:13|| Front Page Top

#4 "I believe that we have a responsibility to speak out if we think that the course of action that our country is on is not making the American people safer, making our military stronger and making the region more stable."

Note the 'if' above in Nancy P.'s statement. She still doesn't know what she believes about the war in Iraq. No doubt she's gettting recalibrated by here DNC poll watchers.

Posted by Thimble Slater4565 2005-12-10 06:51|| 2005-12-10 06:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Wow, someone else still remembers Firesign.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2005-12-10 08:48|| 2005-12-10 08:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Nick Danger, Third Eye!

/no, I'm not dating myself much...

Posted by Raj 2005-12-10 09:55|| 2005-12-10 09:55|| Front Page Top

#7 If you remember Firesign Theatre then you weren't really there, wink, wink.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2005-12-10 10:09|| 2005-12-10 10:09|| Front Page Top

#8 "There have even been rumors that Lieberman is being considered as a replacement for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld"

NB: the only people passing those rumors around have been Democrats. They want to remove Rumsfeld and Lieberman, in order to weaken the president and, well, Lieberman.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-12-10 10:15|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-12-10 10:15|| Front Page Top

#9 from Firesign's Star Trip:

"Cap'n, Cap'n, all the stars have gone out!"

"You've pressed the view screen button, Lt. Uhuru."

Later: "Cap'n, Cap'n, all the stars have gone out again!"

"Lt. Uhuru, if you press that button again I'll have you ejected into hyperspace though the garbage chute."

Later, as Capt. Quirk searches for his communicator, finds it missing and grabs for Lt. U's:

"That's my box. Take your hands OFF MY BOX."

And much much more .... heh

Posted by lotp 2005-12-10 10:17|| 2005-12-10 10:17|| Front Page Top

#10 In the ship's Apse sir?
The what?

I can't remember where, but I stumbled across the entire MP3 album set.

Posted by Shipman 2005-12-10 11:45|| 2005-12-10 11:45|| Front Page Top

#11 " '...unfortunately he is at a different place on Iraq than the majority of the American people,' Reid said yesterday."

Be careful on extrapolating on that one, Mr Reid. Americans do believe military action is sometimes necessary, even if they disagree with the Iraq War. Most Democrats seem committed to the notion that military action (violence) is never justified. Their parents and grandparents who won WWII with blood and pain must be mortified.

Posted by jules 2 2005-12-10 12:21|| 2005-12-10 12:21|| Front Page Top

#12 And meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee is going ballistic over that "White Flag Democrats" ad the GOP released yesterday, and fortifying their anti-war stance. John Hinderaker over at powerlineblog shows an e-mail he got from the DNC...

Posted by Dave D. 2005-12-10 12:31|| 2005-12-10 12:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Further polarizing puts the DNC even further from mainstream votes -- I hope Reid and Dean and their ilk keep spouting off for at least three more years. And I'll take Lieberman over sKerry, Gorey, or Hillary any day of the week for anything -- at least he's got a brain and a clue.

Posted by Darrell 2005-12-10 15:46|| 2005-12-10 15:46|| Front Page Top

#14 Pelosi's sound bite has a subject and verb, but gets lost in a tangle of clauses and weasel words.

Just what is her point, anyway?

Posted by mom">mom 2005-12-10 22:55|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2005-12-10 22:55|| Front Page Top

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