Newsweek on Lieberman's Katrina flip-flop

[edhopper]

http://terrorwatch.talk.newsweek.com/default.asp?item=429043&comment=1&u_id=22928&c_id=0#comments

My response to an overall negative article on Lieberman;
"I am surprised I am the first to say this. And more surprised at the authors' mistake. Joe Lieberman is not a Democrat. He lost his party's primary and chose to leave the party and run as an independent. He pledged the caucus with the Democrats, but as this article plainly shows, his pledges are worthless. To repeat, Lieberman is NOT a Democrat. To continue to place him in the roll of a bipartisan, whether it is by President Bush or Newsweek, is simply false.'

[pacalo]

1. And he chose to be an Independent rather than a Republican

because he wanted to keep his seniority, or power. The Democrats promised him he could keep it.

[edhopper]

2. So

as he breaks promise after promise on Katrina and Iraq, why should the Democrats keep theirs?

[MadMaddie]

3. My exact thoughts...The Dems should realize after a week that

certain rules don't apply in today's environment. This is the most dangereous time in US history and the Dems will have to face that fact.

[JDPriestly]

4. Lieberman needs a reminder that we must never forget Katrina.

Bush fiddled while New Orleans sank. We at least have the right to know how many people died. Had the world investigated when the first 3000 Jews died at the hands of the NAZIs -- many of them before the death camps were built --, the history of the 20th Century might have been quite different. The present is built on the past, as is the future. We need to know the truth about what happened in New Orleans. Our government has plenty of money to build a huge, new "embassy" in Baghdad, but no money to build levees or housing here in America? We have a right to know what our "leaders" are doing and have done. Regardless of his party affiliation Lieberman is arguably the most powerful man in the Senate, if not in America. Was the New Orleans catastrophe negligent genocide? Could the same happen to other minorities in the U.S.? Let's just let the -- substitute your own ethnic group -- in -- substitute your own home town -- drown. After all, they are just -- substitute your own epithet.