Joe Lieberman the Hypocritical Assclown?
Thu May 15, 2008 at 12:19:58 PM PDT
For a couple of months now (not necessarily here) I've been calling Lieberman "JoJo the Turncoat Monkey," for reasons that should be obvious. Based on what has been going on with this whole "Appeaser" flap, maybe it's time to come up with something new. I'm thinking "JoJo the Hypocritical Assclown," or something similar.
While every good democrat has been jumping all over Bush for not only his remarks, but where he chose to make them, The Ruggedly Bipartisan Independent Republican Sycophant Senator from Connecticut has taken a different tack, both from the Democratic narrative and from his own previous words.
First let us review what JoJo the Turncoat Monkey said today in response to Preznit Picowatt's "appeaser" remarks in Israel:
“President Bush got it exactly right today when he warned about the threat of Iran and its terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. It is imperative that we reject the flawed and naïve thinking that denies or dismisses the words of extremists and terrorists when they shout “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” and that holds that—if only we were to sit down and negotiate with these killers—they would cease to threaten us. It is critical to our national security that our commander-in-chief is able to distinguish between America’s friends and America’s enemies, and not confuse the two.”
Unfortunately for Senator JoJo, there is this thing called the Internets, which has vast amounts of data stored in . . . well, I believe it's something to do with tubes . . . but the point is, you can go back in time to see what someone said on, say, the arbitrarily chosen date of December 6, 2005:
. . . What I am suggesting here, as I listen and read the statements made, is that there is broad bipartisan agreement on the goals, on the strategic interest we have in the successful completion of our mission in Iraq; there are disagreements about tactics. Accepting this reality and the urgency of the moment in Iraq calls us, I believe, to remember the famous counsel of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan that “Politics must stop at the water’s edge.”
Vandenburg of course, played an instrument role in the post WWII period in building bipartisan support for Presidents Truman’s post WWII, early Cold War foreign policy. The full, actual statement of the imperative that Vandenburg stated, that politics must stop at the water’s edge, is altogether relevant to our current circumstances:
“To me, bipartisan foreign policy means a mutual effort under our indispensable two-party system, to unite our official voice at the water’s edge so that America speaks with maximum authority against those who would divide and conquer us and the free world.”
Oh, JoJo, are there no depths you won't sink to in your never-ending efforts to suck up to the Republicans? What a sad little Turncoat Monkey you've become!
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