Talk about beating a dead horse. How many times are we going to re-litigate the Iraq war? Joe Lieberman was on “Morning Joe” today and Mika asked him if he stood by his vote to invade Iraq. He does. That’s when Arianna Huffington injected her incredibly irritating voice into the discussion. Lieberman became frustrated (understandably) and called her “sweetie,” which of course ignited a brand new media controversy.

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We all know how this is going to play out. Radical left wing broads are gonna be coming out of the woodwork demanding an apology. The lib media will scream about sexism. All the people who already hate Joe will hate him a little more. Life will go on. Since he’s retiring anyway, he should just extend his middle digit rather than apologize.

Better yet, he should become a Republican.

Source: Associated Press

Sen. Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee who angered the party by backing Republican John McCain for president in 2008, will retire and not seek a fifth term, Democratic officials said Tuesday.

Comedian Al Franken who plays a freshman Senator on TV refused to give Joe Lieberman an extra minute to wrap up his presentation. John McCain took issue that.

Joe Lieberman is refusing to go along with the Obama agenda of destroying the greatest health care system in the world. Lieberman has threatened to filibuster Harry Reid’s health care bill unless the expansion of Medicare is removed.

This has caused an uproar on Capital Hill among Democrats who thought they had Lieberman in the bag. President Obama even convened an emergency meeting at The White House today and told Harry Reid to make a deal with Lieberman.

Obama’s far left base has responded to Lieberman’s trouble making by attacking his wife.

Radical leftist blogger Jane Hamsher is trying to get Hadassah Lieberman fired from being a spokesman for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which fights against breast cancer.

Hamsher accuses Joe Lieberman and his wife of being paid shills for the insurance industry, which is the predictable attack on anyone opposed to ObamaCare.

UPDATE:

The nuts over at Daily Kos are also calling for Mrs. Lieberman’s firing.

As expected, Senator Joe Lieberman will keep his Homeland Security Committee chairmanship. Some democrats could almost taste the revenge in the air, but president-elect Obama took took the wind out of their sails early on. Telling them to do whatever it takes to keep Lieberman who represents Connecticut. So the dems stripped him of a lesser subcommittee chairmanship, which amounts to a slap on the wrist. Think of it this way, Barack Obama was chairman of the subcommittee related to the war in Afghanistan but never held a single meeting — ever.

There was a very good chance that Lieberman would have become a republican had he been stripped of his chairmanship. While it’s certainly funny that liberal democrats couldn’t get their revenge, it’s a shame he won’t be joining the GOP. Lieberman’s a good man who cares about protecting this country more than adhering to a loony, liberal ideology.

-Chris Jones

Senator Joe Lieberman attended the weekly lunch of the Senate Democrats, warmly greeting colleagues, and yucking it up with his old friends. Not surprisingly, his attendance at the lunch raised eyebrows among some of his colleagues.

Being the gutless peaceniks that they are, those with raised eyebrows waited until Sen. Lieberman left to complain about him showing up at the lunch.

Joe Lieberman’s continued full-throated support of John McCain for President and his continued attacks on Barack Obama have severely strained relations with many Democrats. Although, I would argue that the relationship became strained when his party threw him under the bus for supporting the Iraq war.

In the eyes of many “freedom loving” Democrats, it was just unacceptable for Joe Lieberman to have an opinion on Iraq that differed from the rest of the herd.

They actually tried to throw him out of the party because he didn’t support defeat in Iraq. The way Joe Lieberman has been treated by the party he dedicated his life to has been an absolute disgrace. So I can’t believe anyone would really be shocked that Joe is not feeling particularly loyal to the Democratic party these days.

The only way to be accepted in today’s Democratic party is to subscribe to a radical, far-left ideology that only a tiny fringe minority of the country believes in.

The fact that Joe was willing to put everything on the line to keep us from defeat in Iraq shows a level of character and integrity that few politicians these days possess.

Joe Lieberman is a good man and should be respected.

Joe Lieberman is ruling out even the possibility of being John McCain’s running mate this election season.

“No, I’d tell him, ‘Thanks, John, I’ve been there, I’ve done that. You can find much better,’” Lieberman told The Associated Press during an interview Tuesday in his Senate office. “I’m not seeking anything else.”

Lieberman’s endorsement of McCain in December and the campaigning he since has done in states such as New Hampshire, Michigan, South Carolina and Florida have led to speculation that the Arizona senator might choose Lieberman as his running mate.

I personally think it would be quite make for a very interesting ticket. Republicans have a lot of respect for Joe Lieberman, because he’s one of the last remaining Democrats that isn’t a left-wing lunatic.

-Chris Jones

Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent who was the Democrats’ 2000 vice presidential nominee, is scheduled to announce his support for John McCain at a town hall meeting Monday morning in Hillsborough.

A Lieberman adviser said the senator decided to back McCain despite being a Republican because he believes his colleague from Arizona “has the best chance of uniting the country in its fight against Islamic terrorism.”

McCain and Lieberman have been close friends for years and have emerged over the last several years as two of the most outspoken proponents of the war in Iraq.

Lieberman’s support for the war cost him his party’s Senate nomination in 2006 as radical anti-war forces from across the country rallied behind businessman and political lightweight Ned Lamont to oust him. In the end it was Lieberman who got the last laugh, running as an independent for re-election and easily winning.

Among far-left Democrats hatred for Joe Lieberman runs a strong third after George Bush and Dick Cheney, and his support for McCain will no doubt deepen that hatred.

Joe Lieberman is one of only a fraction of Democrats with any sanity left. Unfortunately, the Democratic party has largely been hi-jacked by shrill, anti-war, radicals with a dangerous and naive agenda for America.

This new radical base has attempted expel or at least marginalize any members who fail to subscribe to the new far left agenda. Lieberman is one of the few remaining Democrats who represent the old centrist Democratic party that disagreed on policy issues with Republicans, but could be counted on to come together on matters of national security.

Lieberman has shown courage and integrity that is rare in politicians these days. He has been a supporter of the Iraq war not only when it was popular, but when it was unpopular.

His support of John McCain should will be seen as very appealing to many independents and Republicans, and could potentially pave the way for a possible McCain/Lieberman ticket election season.

-Chris Jones

Sen. Joe Lieberman blasted the Democratic Presidential nominees yesterday saying they’re beholden to a “politically paranoid” and “hyper-partisan” base that could endanger any hopes of winning a general election.

The Senator also said he might not vote for the Democratic presidential nominee next year.

He painted the Dems as totally out of touch, and argued that George W. Bush and the Republican presidential candidates remained truer than the Democratic party to its tradition of a “moral, internationalist, liberal and hawkish” foreign policy that was established by presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy.

“The Democratic party I grew up in was unafraid to make moral judgments about the world beyond our borders,” he said.

“Today’s Democrats are inclined to see international problems as a result of America’s engagement with the world and are viscerally opposed to the use of force – the polar opposite to the self-confident and idealistic nationalism of the party I grew up in.”

Joe Lieberman really is the only sane Democrat left in Washington. The looney anti-war left has totally hijacked the Democratic party. It’s only in recent years that the Democrats have come to symbolize a party of pacifists, who think an aggressive foreign policy is some kind of attempt by Republicans to take over the world.

-Chris Jones