The bribery has begun everyone.Harry Reid knows WITHOUT Lieberman's vote he CAN'T be Majority Leader.
LOL! a bribe for a vote.
Old Searchlight doesn't want Joe to fall out of the fold.
;-)
I'm not leaving the country. This is as good as can be expected.
If Lieberman has half a brain, he'll blackmail the D's into giving them everything he wants.
Realistically, he needs to caucus with the D's still, he promised to, and he's too far left on most domestic issues to be a Republican. But since he holds the balance of power in his hands, he can blackmail the D's for just about whatever he wants.
If Lieberman is a true patriot, he'll use his influence to make sure the rest of his chickens#!t friends don't FU the WOT and, thusly, invite a nuke to go off in Boston Harbor or San Diego.
Haven't heard much about Lieberman in the "Mainstream Media" so what's up with that?
Joe can now vote any way he wants to anytime -- thanks the Dems.
They are terrified he is going to flip to our side. LOL I don't like Lieberman, but hes got them scared to death. They hate him but they can't show it. I love it!
Note the difference between Pelosi, who is not putting any 'hawks' in positions of power, and Reid, who is forced to.
Lieberman could be our ace in the hole in stopping any anti-Iraqi war movement and also frustrating the Democratic base that thought we would be leaving tomorrow.
This could suppress their turnout in 08, espically the young (18-20) group, who the Democrats did a good job in getting them motivated to vote and voted mostly against the war.
If just a few % of them sit the next election out, the result should be a favoriable to the GOP.
Lieberman should be careful. If there is a major attack on the US during his watch the long knives will be out for him and Bush.
You are only about to start squealing like pigs. Wait until you get to watch the Dems run Congress. We are so serious screwed.
Lieberman and the Governmental Affairs Committee:
November 03, 2006 Contact: Leslie Phillips
(202) 224-2627
LIEBERMAN SUPPORTS SIGIR EXTENSION
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., issued the following statement today in reaction to a front page New York Times story on the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
“While I have strongly defended the invasion of Iraq, I have also always questioned the way the war was being executed. From the beginning, I have called on the Administration to do a better job of planning for and overseeing the Iraqi reconstruction effort. I have a lengthy record of speaking out against and asking for investigations and hearings into the gross neglect of reconstruction contractors and those agencies charged with overseeing them.
“As a result, I have been a strong advocate for the office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction since it was first created. This office has done exceptional work, uncovering waste, mismanagement, and fraud on a massive scale, involving billions of squandered taxpayer dollars.
“Most tragically, the waste and mismanagement the SIGIR’s office has uncovered shortchanges our soldiers in the field and impedes the overall war effort.
“For that reason, the SIGIR’s work must continue for as long as American taxpayers are helping to reconstruct Iraq. That is why I object strenuously to a provision inserted into the Defense Department spending bill that would terminate the SIGIR’s office in October 2007. Senator Collins and I wrote to the Secretaries of Defense and State this week calling for greater contractor transparency and we informed them that we would introduce legislation to repeal the expiration date and extend the life of the SIGR.
“The fact is Special Inspector General Stuart Bowen has brought to light many of the abuses that have occurred during the Iraq war. He and his staff have courageously traveled throughout Iraq to inspect projects, large and small. They found that the Coalition Provisional Authority could not account for nearly $9 billion dollars it distributed to Iraq ministries. They determined that the government had lost track of thousands of 9-millimeter pistols and hundreds of assault rifles and other weapons distributed to Iraqi forces. They determined that Halliburton wasted $75 million on a failed pipeline project, after ignoring an engineering consultant’s advice that the project required further study. These are just a few of the examples of the SIGIR’s outstanding work.
“Unfortunately, when it came to planning and implementing the reconstruction of Iraq, this Administration took far too many shortcuts. We continue to suffer the consequences, as do our troops and the Iraqi people.”
http://hsgac.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=1359&Month=11&Year=2006&Affiliation=R
Your typical intellectually honest Dem. Appoint a guy who is 180 out with the party on the war to the Homeland Security post.
The democrats are trying to use the 9/11 chairmanship as a "prime minister" who gets selected by the majority party.
Many european nations have a "president" and a "prime minister" the president is largly ceremonial.
That is why the 9/11 commission enactments have also become a huge issue for pelosi.
Lieberman will get anything he wants, LOL. Without Lieberman they don't have a majority and Harry Reid won't be the majority leader.
She replaces Collins of Maine. Am I crazy to think that this seems like an improvement?
Will someone please point me to the chapter in the Civics textbook that describes how the Committees are organized when the actual count of Senators is tied; 49-D, 49-R, 2-I? Why should the DemoKratz get control if this is the actual split?
If you guys want a laugh, go to Daily Kos. They are so depressed that Lieberman won because they think he will save Bush from all kinds of bad Senate votes.