By Dave Lindorff

Hand it to Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH). The conservative senator from
the Granite State turned down an appointment to the position of
President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Commerce citing “irreconcilable
differences.”

Citing the latest Senate vote on Obama’s economic stimulus package,
for which Gregg voted “no,” Gregg said, “ We are functioning from a
different set of views on many critical items of policy."

By Dave Lindorff

The word is that Barack Obama, in keeping with his promise of a new
post-Bush/Cheney era of “civility in government,” is telling Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid not to eject the treacherous Sen. Joe
Lieberman (I-CT) from the Democratic caucus.

This is a terrible mistake. Joe Lieberman is a wretched example of
a man without principle—a back-stabbing slimeball of a politician whose
only allegience, apparently, besides to himself, is to Israel.

Now I don’t want anyone to think I’m some rabid anti-semite. My
wife and kids are Jewish, we have good friends who are Israeli, and no,
I don’t think the Jews run the media or the country. I do, however,
think that Joe Lieberman thinks more about what, in his warped and
shriveled worldview, is good for Israel, than about what is good for
America.

How many times do we have to Dump Joe Lieberman? We booted him out of the Democratic Party in the 2006 primary, when Ned Lamont shocked the political establishment. Despite the humiliation, Lieberman stayed in the race as an independent and beat Lamont with Republican votes.

Senate Democrats were kind enough to let Lieberman caucus with them and chair the Homeland Security Committee. How did he repay their kindness? By campaigning against Obama and for McCain, including a prime-time speech at the Republican convention.

Last week, Harry Reid told Joe he had to give up his chairmanship if he wanted to stay in the Democratic Caucus. Lieberman refused and is appealing to the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, which determine committee chairs.

By Dave Lindorff

Joe Lieberman only mentioned Barack Obama twice in his speech to the Republican convention and the world, and the second time he flat-out lied:

when Barack Obama was voting to cut off funding for our troops on the ground

The Senate never held a vote to abandon our troops in Iraq without funds, because that would get them killed. Instead Russ Feingold and Harry Reid proposed carefully-written amendments to set deadlines for Bush to remove troops safely, with a funding cutoff for combat troops only after those troops were removed to enforced the deadlines that George Bush (and John McCain) adamantly opposed.

The vilest Republican smears against Barack Obama are that he is either a Muslim terrorist by faith (of course he's a Christian) or, more subtly, a Muslim terrorist sympathizer who would let terrorists attack or even destroy Israel.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked McCain supporter Joe Lieberman, "Do you have any doubt about Senator Obama's commitment to maintain a very supportive role for the United States as far as Israel is concerned?" Lieberman replied, "I have no doubt about that." So let's end that vile smear once and for all: if anyone emails you questions about Obama's support for Israel, send them this link by using the "Send" link below.

By Dave Lindorff

Well, now we know. Scientists have documented that the Bush/Cheney administration has been a greater threat to Americans’ health and safety than Osama Bin Laden and his terror band.

Specifically, The New York Times, in its science section today, reports that a new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry has found that while the risk to Americans of dying at the hands of a terrorist was roughly equal to the chance of “drowning in a toilet,” the risk of cardiovascular disease among people who are frightened about the threat of terrorism is 300-500% higher than for people who are not worried.

Is anyone surprised the Joe Lieberman endorsed John McCain for President?

McCain is running 5th in Iowa, on his way to 6th as Ron Paul passes him. McCain's only prayer is New Hampshire, where Romney is 16% ahead and pulling away. In South Carolina, McCain is running 4th and falling. He's so desperate for attention he'll do anything - including trumpeting the endorsement of the most unpopular ex-Democrat in America.

What do McCain and Lieberman have in common? The deep devotion to a permanent U.S. occupation of Iraq, at a time when 70% of Americans want to get out in 2008.

Showing that the primary qualification for delivering the Saturday Democratic radio address is obviously not that the speaker be, well, a Democrat, Senator Joe Lieberman today gave the "Democratic" address and performed with a stunning degree of hypocrisy that showed he is indeed much closer to being a Republican than anything else in the political spectrum.

Lieberman, who is George W. Bush's only non-GOP ally in the Senate when it comes to the deadly, misguided war in Iraq, gave a talk in which he discussed the country's obligation to its Veterans and his dismay with the horrible conditions our wounded troops have seen at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Any surprise LIEberman joined the GOPer filibuster? Hey, fine Joe, go ahead and help the Repubnuts become the permanent minority in American politics...

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