Hey doofus, if you are going to plagiarize then at least cite your
sources:
[url]http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/10963174/lieberman_bushs_favorite_democrat/3[/url]
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:[color=blue]
> "Vash The Stampede" <Trigun@2AM.cn> wrote in message
> news:g196h.2110$%U.1053@trndny07...[color=green]
> > On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:44:30 -0600, dbu' wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> >> In article <on2il299s3etgvbojngve2ptpeo2e4cgl3@4ax.com>,
> >> Scott in Florida <askifyouwant@mindspring.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> [url]http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/11/12/lieberman_ref[/url]
> >>> uses_to_close_door_on_switching_parties/
> >>
> >> That would be a hoot, but I dare say I don't think he'll do it. I'd
> >> like to see Joe run for president, I might consider a vote for him.
> >> I've watch him on C-SPAN hearings. He's a decent person and worthy of
> >> consideration.[/color]
> >
> >
> > He is a very good person who does what he thinks is right and damn the
> > Party Line. He has actually been an 'independant' for a number of years,
> > not always voting the way he is told to. He also listens to his
> > constituants, something a LOT of our 'representatives' could learn from!
> >[/color]
>
> Lieberman is slime.
>
> No one has played the role of that "winner" more enthusiastically, or more
> often, than Joe Lieberman. He is everything a Washington insider loves in a
> politician. He is pompous, pious and available. Routinely one of the very
> top recipients of campaign donations from the insurance, pharmaceutical and
> finance sectors, and a man whose wife, Hadassah, is a
> pharmaceutical-industry lobbyist for Hill and Knowlton, Lieberman has
> quietly become one of the greatest allies corporate America has in
> Washington.
>
>
>
> For example, Lieberman, who as chairman of the DLC in the mid to late
> Nineties presided over an organization heavily subsidized by companies such
> as AIG and Aetna (the latter of which also contributes lavishly to his
> campaigns), sponsored a bill that limited auto insurance suits by permitting
> the offering of lower rates to consumers who forfeited their right to sue.
> He has fought for similar anti-lawsuit laws for tobacco, for HMOs, for
> pharmaceutical companies. Victor Schwartz, general counsel for the American
> Tort Reform Association, once bragged that "if it were not for Lieberman,
> there would never have been a Biomaterials Access Act"-a 1998 law that
> protected companies like Dow Chemical and DuPont (also big DLC contributors)
> from lawsuits filed for the production of defective medical implants. Yes,
> that's right: Joe Lieberman fought for the principle of manufacturing faulty
> fake tits with impunity.
>
>
>
> In a move that was perfectly characteristic of everything he stands for,
> Lieberman in 2001 offered a piece of legislation, S. 1764, that purported to
> provide incentives to companies that develop medicines to treat the victims
> of bioterror attacks but, more important, extended the patent life of a wide
> range of drugs for several years, delaying the introduction of more
> cost-friendly generic drugs. Shilling for the socialist subsidy of drug
> companies while masquerading as a Churchillian, tough-on-security Democrat
> in the War on Terror age: That's Joe Lieberman, and the modern Democratic
> Party, in a nutshell.
>
>
>
> In the midst of all this whoring for business interests, Lieberman has
> preposterously marketed himself to the public as a stern guardian of
> "morality" and "traditional values," along the way taking some admirably
> mean-spirited positions. He once supported a bill denying funding to public
> schools that counseled suicidal teens that it is OK to be gay, a remarkable
> position for a man whose response to the Enron scandal was to say that
> "government will never be able to legislate or regulate morals."
>
>
>
> Lieberman also signed the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, the
> notorious organization founded by Lynne Cheney that published a baldly
> McCarthyite list of "anti-American academics." In 1997, Lieberman pushed for
> warning labels on CDs, getting the Senate to take up the issue under the
> title "Music Violence: How Does It Affect Our Youth?" in the hopes of
> snagging the votes of a few grandmas by wagging a finger at Marilyn
> Manson-yes, Lieberman was one of those asshole politicians who tried to pin
> Columbine on rock music. And rather than denounce Ken Starr for the most
> egregious misuse of prosecutorial authority since the House Un-American
> Activities Committee, Lieberman's response to the Lewinsky scandal was to
> attack Bill Clinton in one of the lamest "O the children!" acts of all time,
> saying, "It is hard to ignore the impact of the misconduct the president has
> admitted to on our children, our culture and our national character."
>
>
>
> A few years later, faced with a similar political choice, he chose to stand
> fast by Bush on the issue of Iraq, saying, "We undermine the president's
> credibility at our nation's peril." Apparently the president deserves
> absolute loyalty only when his mistakes result in teenagers getting their
> heads shot off.[/color]
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