[with bonus video and poll, below.]
Yesterday Kos posted a front page story in which Kos indicated that it would be OK with him if Lieberman was allowed to remain in the Senate Democratic Caucus, as long as Lieberman was stripped of his current committee chairmanship.
I strongly disagree with that idea of Kos's, and here's why:
Lieberman is a GOP mole and a loose cannon who makes up his own rules and who therefore cannot be trusted, period; Lieberman and his staff must NOT be allowed any access to ANY confidential Dem senate caucus deliberations about ANYTHING, for fear that Lieberman and his staffpersons will serve as a conduit for the passing of information about confidential Dem caucus plans & strategies over to the GOP.
The best way to prevent that from happening is to throw Lieberman entirely out of the Dem senate caucus, which would automatically 100% shut Lieberman and his staffpersons out of all confidential Dem caucus meetings & events.
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It is clear now (as it was clear back in 2006 with Lieberman's second bite at the apple bogus CFL party run) that Lieberman exists psychologically in an alternate parallel universe in his mind, an alternate parallel universe with rules of Lieberman's own making, an alternate parallel universe where the sabotaging & blocking of Dem plans & goals is OK, because such is good for "bipartisanship". You see, in Lieberman's alternate parallel universe mind, Lieberman does not consider himself a disloyal treacherous rat, but rather considers himself a noble "bipartisan".
Now, the obvious example of Lieberman attempting to sabotage Dem plans & goals in the name of noble "bipartisanship" is when he supported McCain/Palin, but it won't stop there with Lieberman, because Lieberman has already indicated in an interview with Glenn Beck on 11-4-08 that the filibuster is a good thing, that, and I quote, "the filibuster is one of the great protections we have".
GLENN: I will tell you, Senator, I will tell you that I am -- you know, I just talked to Senator Hatch about this. I fear our Constitution is hanging by a thread. I fear our Constitution, we are in real, real jeopardy here because we haven't faced this perfect storm before that we have. I mean, everybody right now is just talking about the economy, but let's talk about what the heck happens with Israel and Iran and even Iraq at this point.
SENATOR LIEBERMAN: Yeah. No, look, there's no question that when people get up in the morning, they're worried about the economy. They are worried about their jobs, they are worried about their savings and investment, worried about whether they can pay their mortgage. That's all understandable and that's something that is on the ballot today. But let's never forget that out there is an enemy as devastating, probably more devastating than any we've ever faced. They protect us in the homeland, these are the Islamic extremists, they abhor our values, our way of life and, you know, this is a choice for commander-in-chief between a man who's really inexperienced in foreign policy, a smart man, Barack Obama, well spoken but never really been tested in a crisis. And we're not sure what he would do. John McCain tested all of his life in crises, passed the test, knows that the world has leaders who are good and some are evil and you're not going to talk the evil ones into being good by sitting down over a cup of coffee. You know, they have got to -- I always say about John McCain that he will be a President that our allies will trust and like and our enemies will fear. And that's the kind of President we hate. So you are right, there's an awful lot on the line today in this election. And it honestly goes to the heart of our -- in a way that seems to me more intense than any election since I've been voting, goes to the heart of our future, really what we're going to be as a country and a very more personal way, whether America's going to be as strong and free and full of opportunity for my kids and grandkids as it has been, thank God, for me.
GLENN: Do you agree that with Senator Hatch -- I've only got a minute before a network break. I hope we can hold you here. But do you agree that Senator Hatch said to me that if we don't at least have the firewall of the filibuster in the Senate that in many ways America will not survive.
SENATOR LIEBERMAN: Well, I hope it's not like that, but I fear. And I think for some of us there is a key. You know, it gets a bad name but it was really put there, a 60-vote requirement as somebody said to me when I first came to the Senate, stop the passions of a moment among the people of America from sweeping across the congress, the House, to the Senate and to a like minded President and having us do things that will change America for a long time. So the filibuster is one of the great protections we have. Glenn, I apologize. I'm running to go out with Senator McCain. We're going to Colorado.
GLENN: Best of luck.
So, there you have it, "the filibuster is one of the great protections we have".
Now, that comment above by Lieberman should sober up the few Kossacks here who keep saying here that we may need Lieberman to achieve 60 Dem Senate votes to break a GOP filibuster, so we should be nice to Lieberman, let Lieberman remain in the Dem Senate Caucus, blah blah blah.
Yeah right, that's the ticket, rely on Lieberman to help us break a GOP filibuster, the same Lieberman who thinks that "the filibuster is one of the great protections we have".
I also want to comment on the faux idea some have posted here that we should be nice to Lieberman, lest he become a rabid crimson red repub who will turn against us and vote against us on everything out of sheer spite. Look Kossacks, Lieberman is NEVER going to become a rabid crimson red repub no matter what we do to him, because the only thing politically that Lieberman now has left to shoot for is to win reelection in CT in 2012, and Lieberman knows that he cannot win reelection in CT in 2012 as a rabid crimson red repub; Lieberman knows that he must continue to maintain a moderate voting record, because he will need such to appeal to the moderate indie CT voters (who are numerous in CT), a majority of whom helped Lieberman win reelection in 2006.
Lieberman and his staffpersons cannot be trusted not to pass information about confidential Dem caucus plans over to the GOP, which could sabotage Dem plans & goals. THAT is why Lieberman must be entirely thrown out of the Senate Dem Caucus, not to vindictively punish Lieberman for being a bad boy, but for the very practical non-punitive purpose of systematically denying Lieberman and his staffpersons any access at all to the confidential plans & deliberations of the Senate Dem caucus.
So, enough of this pussy-footing around with Lieberman here, on the faux premise that we may need him and that he can help us; there is NOTHING that we will gain by allowing Lieberman to remain in the Senate Dem Caucus, except having a treacherous disloyal angry frustrated GOP mole inside our caucus with an axe to grind.
Lieberman is a GOP mole who will sabotage our caucus with his loose cannon "bipartisanship"; that is why Lieberman must go, period, no ifs, ands, or buts.
PS: I am very pleased that Harry Reid at a minimum now acknowledges publically that he has to do something about Lieberman. Now, we need to let Reid, and as many Dem Senators as we can, know that the only practical option left for the Lieberman problem is Lieberman's complete expulsion from the Senate Dem Caucus.
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Bonus Video
This short video clip is from an 11-2-08 McCain rally in Scranton PA, where McCain rails against the evils of a quote "Democratic-dominated Washington", while his mole-ness looks on approvingly.
Really people, how can anybody here still argue in favor of keeping this tool around in our caucus, in any capacity??