Joe Lieberman RIP

I miss 2009 ilx politics threads tbh

loooool, Shakey, I'm divided between your immaculately timed reentries and just wanting you to return to regular ILXor status. There are so many 'RIP...not really' threads in dire need of creation these days.

Did a death panel decide to pull his plug? Hope so

Joe Lieberman and I didn't always see eye-to-eye, but he certainly is dead now

Gonna play some really violent video games to ight in his honor

viva shakey

When Trump dies, it's going to be like Dorothy landing in Munchkinland.

Is it my imagination or was some cetrist third-party plot intending to run Lieberman as their candidate only a couple of weeks ago?

He was part of No Labels (or an advisor). Was he ever a potential candidate?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Labels

No Lieberman, morelike

lol

I'd forgotten this shit:

Did Lieberman improve? Ha ha, no. First, he became the most powerful person in the Senate, which is why Reid kowtowed to him in the first place. As an independent in a Republican administration, had he chosen to side with Republicans, it would have been a 50-50 split. Lieberman could dictate his terms to stay with the Democrats and give them the slim 51-49 majority. Basically those terms meant that on policy Lieberman could do whatever he wanted. In February 2007, he rewarded Connecticut voters for their faith in him by publicly lobbying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the confirmation of Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium. Fox was a major funder of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who had so viciously attacked John Kerry in 2004. A team player, that Joe Lieberman.

Lieberman continued basically accusing the Democratic Party of treason for opposing the Iraq War, claiming publicly in 2007, “They’re already asleep about the consequences of an American defeat in Iraq for our national security.”[3] In 2008, he spoke for a group called Christians United for Israel, headed by John Hagee, the far right pastor who has called the Catholic Church “the great whore” and claimed Hitler was God’s hand sending the Jews back to Israel. Did it matter to Lieberman that he was being used by the worst possible people to drive support for Israel so they can have their apocalypse? Of course not! In fact, the next year, he accepted the group’s Defender of Israel award. In 2010, he lambasted Barack Obama for not using the term “Islamic extremism” basically accusing the president, theoretically in his own party, of being soft on terrorism.

Where did this run?

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/03/the-ballad-of-buckleys-blowhard

“ He’s probably off trying to create a third party of afterlife, saying of God and Satan that Both Sides Do It.”

Joe Lieberman, Iraq War Cheerleader and Killer of Public Option, Dead at 82

"Up until the very end, Joe Lieberman enjoyed the high-quality, government-financed healthcare that he worked diligently to deny the rest of us. That's his legacy," said Melanie D'Arrigo, executive director of the Campaign for New York Health, which advocates for universal, single-payer healthcare.

heckuva job, shakey!