Lieberman blasts Dean as ‘Dr. No’

[Manix]

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Trying to capitalize on what he views as an opportune moment for his campaign, Joseph Lieberman yesterday ripped Presidential rival Howard Dean as a “backward Democrat” who will weaken the nation’s defense, raise middle-class taxes and start a trade war costing millions of American jobs.

Lieberman’s strongest attack so far on the Democratic front-runner drew in part from an old James Bond film.

“Dr. Dean,” he said, “has become Dr. No.”


http://www.theunionleader.com/prez_show.html?article=30333

[screembloodymurder]

1. Lieberman needs to get out of the race NOW!

for the good of the Democratic party. He already cost us one election.

[cthrumatrix]

33. I agree.....looks like he works for Rove nowdays...get lost Joe

[Cronus Protagonist]

62. He needs to shut his potty mouth or leave the party

The damage he's doing in his political death throes is a republican's wet dream.

FUCK BUSH Buttons, Stickers & Magnets

[lostnfound]

68. and out of the party and out of the congress. n/t

[Skidmore]

2. I just heard Lieberman tell a NH audience

he wanted to take "Bill Clinton's surplus" and use it to help the poor and preserve the environment. How's that nasally sucker planning to do that when he's so gung-ho about prosecuting Bush's war? Hey, Joe, haven't you heard the surplus has been spent many times over? He also intoned that he will value the contributions of people of faith while "respecting the boundaries of church and state." Methinks Joe speaks out of both sides of his mouth. The more I hear him the less I respect that smarmy snakeoil salesman.

[Khephra]

5. "Bill Clinton's surplus"

Thanks to the tax cuts there's no surplus left. :wtf: is Joe talking about?

[Isere]

25. Tax cuts

Lieberman voted against the Bush tax cuts, in case you were wondering.

[Khephra]

26. I know, that's why I didn't mention it

However, he is now defending them and attacking other candidates that want to repeal them. Which is better? Seems a bit two-faced to me to attack someone for wanting to repeal a tax cut that you yourself didn't vote for in the first place.

[Jack Rabbit]

60. Granted, he did. However . . .

However, there is still no surplus left to help poor people, protect the environment or prosecute a series of colonial wars.

In spite of Lieberman's best efforts, for which we should give him credit, Bush gave it away.

And Lieberman knows it. So, there's no sense for him talking about what he's going to do with it.

[ozymandius]

18. This and the comments above make me think that he's just making stuff up.

So desperate and all... If the race cannot go his way then his hubris will make damned sure that it will go nobody's way. Geez, he must love seeing this country slouch toward the gulag.

[IndianaGreen]

3. and Lieberman is Doctor Noah

The psychotic character played by Woody Allen in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale.

[Khephra]

12. He's always reminded me a bit of Doctor Smith

[Snazzy]

21. Senator Palpatine

[Khephra]

22. I got it!

Liberman goes in hiding, takes on the name Dr.Smith, flees Earth in the future, is lost in space for a bit, and then he hooks up with the Dark Forces once and for all!

It makes perfect sense now!

:evilgrin:

[Snazzy]

24. Ends up as giant creepy bug in the remake

Future history was not kind.

This beat the heck out of calling him Octopussy anyway.

:P

[librechik]

32. Guess his holiday bonus from the GOP was extra big this year n/t

[mopinko]

31. i thougth i was the only one

who saw the resemblence to senator palpatine.

[NervousRex]

70. Ahhh yes, his true identity revealed...

[Ripley]

27. LOL Kephra!!! You made my day!

I never thought of that. He not only resembles him but whines just like Dr. Smith. Where's the robot when you need him?

[koopie57]

61. he reminds me

of Percy the Chicken from the old Elmer Fudd cartoons.

[xchrom]

4. sending the message

liberals go home.
i saw the debacle -- lieberman is grossing me out now more than ever.
he sounds falwell-esque in his attack on dean.
if kucinich was the front runner -- would liebermans message be different -- personally i doubt it.
all the candidates must focus on bushco and their own plans for the country.
attacking each other does not make democrats look like winners.

[Khephra]

6. Joe's msg wouldn't be different if it was any other candidate

in the lead except for Joe himself. He has a history of painting his opponents as being "too liberal".

[IndianaGreen]

7. If Kucinich were the front runner

You would see the entire DLC faction closing ranks and forming the Democrats for Bush.

The Left is getting the message. We might see a credible Green challenge if the Democrats nominate a prowar candidate.

[Iverson]

13. echoes of Democrats for Nixon

My fear is that too many Dems tacticly accept one specific right-wing assumption about preventive war: capturing Saddam Hussein justifies invading another country whenever our power brokers feel like it. This fear is based upon a sudden shift in the discourse here in which increasingly the argument is made that only a pro-war candidate will do.

Make a mental note of this for the next time that lefties are accused of intransigence and extremism.

I agree with you that in that scenario the Greens will get increased attention from the Democratic left. I think a credible challenge at the national level is still a long way off, although DLC Dems are doing their best to hasten the moment.

[0007]

8. I watched Lieberman yesterday

...and he made me as sick as when I watch junior.

What a fucking douche bag!

[caledesi]

9. Memo to Joe: Live and let die. eom

[Khephra]

10. Joe, I know you're supposed to never say never again

But please promise us that you'll never run for President again.

:evilgrin:

[Khephra]

11. 000: Joe Lieberman

A License to Kill...

The Democratic grassroots!

[Iverson]

16. (Political) Carbuncles are Forever

I like yours better, khephra, but what the hey.

[IndianaGreen]

14. Lieberman needs to spend some time with the Orgasmatron

[Snazzy]

15. Everyday marks a new low

Blindly (?) making still more talking points for the cons. For sure, when he finally drops out in total failure, he will live on in well funded Shrub ads that outspend his entire campaign yet draw on his wealth of vindictive capital.

Plus he's turned into the press darling--they love him. Sound bite every 30 minutes since Saddam. Perception of equal time by showing nearly two republicans. I can't stand him. I used to give him a glimmer of a benefit of a doubt. Gone! Now he just embodies everything that is wrong just with "centrist" (those are really big quotes) just like whistleass embodies the wrongs since 2000.

I was pissed before the campaign with his abdication of authority, the repub party line, the whole DHS thing. Arrg! Why can’t we write in and divorce him?

I hereby launch a loogie in his direction.

[dbt]

17. Give it UP, Loserman!

Do you ever LISTEN to the shit that falls from your lips? The joke's not just ON you, it IS you!

Sheeeeeeze.

:crazy:
dbt

[Romberry]

19. Lieberman has to know he can't win

So why doesn't he just go home already? There's more to that question than meets the eye. Think back to Lieberman's "debate" with Dick Cheney in 2000. Think back to his deciding for the Gore campaign -- all on his own -- to announce on Meet the Press that "Sure, we will count the illegal overseas absentee ballots".

Lieberman may have a decently liberal voting record on most issues but he stood in the way of accounting reforms which may have prevented fiascos like Enron and he's bankrolled by the insurance industry.

So I ask again, why doesn't Joe just go home?

[edzontar]

20. Joe Loserman--GOP mole.

It is time for this man to shut up and retire from politics.

He is a disgrace.

[jeanmarc]

23. So out of touch

How does he expect to win voters when his reference is so ancient? He's completely out of touch.

[0007]

28. Someone should do a DU poll on Lieberman....

and any DUer that supports Lieberman should be barred for 72 hours, LOL!!

[tinanator]

29. dogs, ponies, smoke and mirrors

all this faux rancor is just a prelude to the glorious resolution with the Israeli dream ticket of Dean/Lieberman. Enjoy the show. Popcorn?

[auntpattywatty]

30. I LIKED HIM WELL ENOUGH THE GORE CAMPAIGN, BUT HE SORT OF "GROWS OFF YOU"

[Cheswick2.0]

58. LOL, yes he does grow off you!

I was so proud of Gore for choosing the first Jewish American to be on a major party ticket. I thought it was damn time and I think Joe helped him in some states. A lot of other crap happened to ruin the election.
But now, remembering the studpid things Lieberman did during the campaign, his flacid performance against cheney in the debate and his support of countin illegal military votes... to say nothing of his backstabbing statements about Gore loosing because he was too populist...... Joe can go to hell.

[ibegurpard]

67. You just summed up in a nutshell

why I despise Lieberman.

[KittyWampus]

34. Lieberman Can't Make Payroll For His Staff & Asked Them To Defer Payment

he's running out of steam folks....

By the way, I know Dr. No- Joseph Wiseman stays at my family's place every year with his wife Pearl.

REALLY nice couple.

[Isere]

45. What evidence to you have for that?

I thought his fundraising was up?

[KittyWampus]

47. LA Times Mentioned Payroll problems

CNN mentioned deferral.

[Isere]

48. I wouldn't get too excited about it just yet

His campaign is due for a major infusion of federal matching funds in January.

[MostlyBlackCat2]

35. the democrats are handing bush another election

I'm so completely sick of all of them chewing on Dean's (and each others) legs like rabid dogs. Don't they realize that the more they beat each other up, the more likely it is that people who WOULD have voted democratic are just going to give up and stay home? More and more I hear people who once cared about one or more of the candidates now saying they're all alike and they've lost enthusiasm for the election. Thanks to Gephardt, Lieberman and Kerry's campaigns for playing such dirty pool. Those of us who hoped to defeat bush are rapidly losing what little hope we had thanks to this kind of politics.

[snooper2]

36. Fuck Lieberman...

I wish we could make these _|_ still :(

[Frangible]

37. With friends like Lieberman, who needs enemies?

Republicans are sitting back and laughing.

[Iverson]

40. With friends like Lieberman, who needs enemas?

n/t

[Fleshdancer]

38. Poor Lieberman

this is the only way the media pays attention to him

[Oreegone]

39. Loserman

A sad dilapitated little spiteful piece of shit for a human person making sounds like a Limbah rightist....Do I hear gurgling??? I sure hope its his career going down the drain cause it stinks.
:nopity:

[devinsgram]

41. Anybody got a big piece of duct tape,

for his mouth, they said it could be used to keep out bad air.

[eileen_d]

42. Joe Lieberman: "Bizarro Democrat"

His attacks on Dean are so outrageous, I almost feel like he's willing to sacrifice his own candidacy in order to get Dean out of the race. Don't ask my opinion on that.

[pinto]

43. PNAC member on CSPAN2 yesterday said Joe was a Dem neocon...

[OKNancy]

44. He's such as weasel

sorry to the weasel population

[Debi]

46. Does anyone remember the TV show 'Dr. No'?

Dean doesn't look anything like the guy.

[Hoppin_Mad]

49. Draft Lieberman as the REPUBLICAN opposition to AWOLBoy !

[He loved Big Brother]

50. "Lieberman blasts Dean as ‘Dr. No’"

Did you hear something? I coulda swore I heard some tinny squeaking noise...

Hmm....

Ah well.

[rustydad]

51. Bought and paid

Lieberman looks like a mole, talks like a mole and just might be a mole bought and paid for by Carl Roverman. Bob

[tritsofme]

52. I wonder if Dean is nominated,

if Holy Joe will join Zell in the Democrats for Bush club?

[PATRICK]

53. Needs to work on analogical fit

And make it relevant to this generation since the reruns in Bond films have been lacking for years now. On a par with bite slogans used gainst him in 2000. Only his mocking media cheerleaders let him set up this pale attempt.

So what is Lieberman? the "Yes- ohh yes!, Mr. Bush!" Senator?

[trapper914]

54. What I can't figure out...

...is why Al Gore passed him over for endorsement? (sarcasm off)

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

55. I think Dean should use this

"If saying 'NO' to tax giveaways to the wealthy, illegal pre-emptive invasion of another country, selling out people's health to insurance companies and drug companies, etc... labels me as Dr. No, then so be it. However, Joe Lieberman says 'YES' on all of those issues. I suppose we should call him Bush's Yes-Man."

Or some such.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

56. Hey, Lieberman! Go ahead and make it official..declare your Repuke status

No wonder Gore screwed you on the endorsement. He's a good judge of character. Screw you, Droopy the Dog.

JB

[Cheswick2.0]

57. Joe Wormtongue Lieberman

sssssssssssss

[KamaAina]

59. KamaAina blasts Lieberman as "Dr. Duh"

Remeber when Good Morning America first came on the air, with David Hartman as co-host?

Duuuuhhhhhh...I'm David Hartman.... duuuhhhh...

What ever happened to David Hartman, anyway?

Did he move to Connecticut, change his name to Joe Lieberman, and run for the Senate, by any chance?

Well, have you ever seen the two of them in the same place at the same time?

[davidinalameda]

63. I am Not George Bush or Howard Dean

He then blasted Dean’s plan to repeal all of Bush’s tax cuts.

“Remember the increase in the child tax credit? Under Howard Dean, it’s gone. The new 10 percent bracket? Gone. The marriage penalty? Back in place under Dean.

“The difference between Howard Dean’s tax hikes and my tax cuts adds up to $2,700 a year left in the pockets of the average New Hampshire family,” Lieberman said. He said Dean would hurt trade and the U.S. economy by “refusing to trade with any country unless they meet unrealistically high standards.” He said such a policy “would start a trade war.”

And, in a clear appeal to moderate voters, particularly independents, Lieberman said, “I am not George Bush or Howard Dean.”



I think he's a lot closer to Bushie than Dean. Lieberman needs to go.

[Rose Siding]

64. Dean's economic speech tomorrow

will give lie to the deceptive charges Lieberman makes here.

[enki23]

65. pretty damned tough to back the bastard now eh?

i, for one, feel pretty good about all the times i bashed the asshole in the past. that includes when he was running on the gore ticket.

[killbotfactory]

66. Maybe he should start campaigning for Bush

He seems to like his policies enough.

[Q]

69. Lieberman is using the same tactics and rhetoric used by the RWing...

...to scare voters away from voting 'liberal'. It really is awful to see a 'democrat' use lies and deceit to discredit his opponents.