Sen. "Holy" Joe Lieberman, the expert on the sanctity of marriage (despite divorcing his own first wife) was
today defended his Senate floor attack on former President Clinton back during the impeachment:
"It was important for someone who was a Democrat to stand up and call on him publicly to accept more responsibility for what he had done," Lieberman said Friday. "In that case, I stood up and did what I believed was right for our country."
Lieberman goes on to discuss the impact of what must have been the world's most powerful BJ:
The senator said his personal dismay evolved into "a larger, graver sense of loss for our country, a reckoning of the damage that the president's conduct has done to the proud legacy of his presidency."
Funny how just a few weeks ago, Lieberman was smiling as Bill Clinton campaigned for him in the days leading up to the CT primary.
Ned Lamont, THE Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. Senate, was asked how he would have responded if he was in the Senate back in 1998. Here's Lamont's reply:
Lamont, who defeated Lieberman in the Democratic primary Aug. 8, criticized the incumbent in an interview with The New York Times.
"You don't go to the floor of the Senate and turn this into a media spectacle," Lamont told reporters and editors from the newspaper during a dinner meeting Wednesday night.
"You go up there, you sit down with one of your oldest friends and say, 'You're embarrassing yourself, you're embarrassing your presidency, you're embarrassing your family, and it's got to stop,'" Lamont said.
Lamont, campaigning in Naugatuck on Friday, said he would have told Clinton what he thought before he said anything publicly.
"That's just the way I am," Lamont told The Associated Press.