Sen. Carper: Lieberman needs to face ‘consequences’ for his actions during the campaign.
Sen. Carper: Lieberman needs to face ‘consequences’ for his actions during the campaign.
Today in an interview with the Hill, Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) said that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) should be punished for his attacks on Barack Obama during the campaign season. “There need to be consequences, and they cannot be insignificant,” Carper said. More from the Hill:
Carper did not rule out stripping Lieberman of his coveted gavel running the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, or imposing other sanctions like taking away seniority on other committees or a subcommittee on Armed Services.
Carper said he and three other Senate Democrats have been making phone calls to “take the temperature of our caucus.” He said the purpose of the calls was not to lobby senators for any particular action for or against Lieberman, but “just to see where people’s hearts and their minds are.”
Carper said that “many of my colleagues … are very angry with his criticism of Sen. Obama,” but he would not say which sanctions he prefers.
When Lieberman ran for president in 2004, Carper served as his Delaware campaign chairman.
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Lieberman ran as an Independent. Let him caucus with the Independents.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:21 pmIf he’s the Senator, he is Sen. Carper, not Rep. Carper.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:22 pmyah.
shot out of a cannon over the Gaza Strip.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:24 pmMake him pubically explain why he opposed Obama and supported McPalin. . . then put him in charge of watching the bathrooms.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:25 pmYou’re welcome!
November 17th, 2008 at 1:26 pmEveryone is back in session today, a good start would be to kick lie-berman’s ass out of all comittees and to the curb…Blessings
November 17th, 2008 at 1:26 pmLiarman’s consequences=rip off head, $hit down throat.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:27 pmThe whole issue about Liverman (and I really dislike liver) is that the Dems don’t have spine enough to put him over onto the other side. For some inane reason they still count him as one of their own. He isn’t and won’t be no matter how much they kiss his behind. Stand up and kick him out.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pmcould care less who he caucuses with, I don’t think it matters, just take his chairmanship away from him. I don’t know why this is even a close call, haven’t heard even a close to reasonable arguement for letting him remain chairman, but I’ve heard plenty of downside arguements in him keeping his chair.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:30 pmJoe-mentum to the rest home for sold out politicians.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:30 pmEveryone should face consequences for their actions!!!!
I STILL hold Gerald Ford in contempt for pardoning Nixon – in my lifetime that set the stage for all the crap our politicians currently get away with.
GWB is already finding out a consequence as he tries to shop a book deal.
buck fush/chuck feney will probably never face the consequences for their appalling governing and the wasted precious lives their policies laid to waste.
Again, thanks Gerry.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:32 pmThere are moderate Republics more pragmatic and reasonable than this scumbag. If we have to work with the other side , then lets draw in these reasonable people. Joe’s done, stick a fork in him.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:33 pmOn second thought, kick him out of the caucus too!!! that way I wont have to listen to any more Sackless Shambliss’es commercials about “filabuster proof evil democrats”!!!
November 17th, 2008 at 1:36 pmHey Joe, you can only sell your soul once, then it’s gone for ever.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:36 pmWaltB:
Yeah, the Democrats have been spineless for decades, though I can never figure out why. Still, for years their response to Republican bull$hit has been to cower in the corners pleading for the Republicans to play nice. Which, it if ever worked might make sense, but since it never does . . .
November 17th, 2008 at 1:36 pm.
Turn coat Joe has got to go!
Hey, hey, Ho-ho
Turn coat Joe has got to go!
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November 17th, 2008 at 1:37 pmI can see him disgraced — peddling clothes in the garment district in NYC (I can wish, can’t I??)
November 17th, 2008 at 1:38 pmWell well…it sounds like they might be growing a pair. It is going to be totally humiliating if the Republicans kick Stevens to the curb for his bad behavior and we embrace LIEberman for his bad behavior.
Come on Dems….now’s the time to set the stage for a new beginning. Be bold, do the right thing!
November 17th, 2008 at 1:40 pmLieberman is just a whore for AIPAC
November 17th, 2008 at 1:44 pmof course who in Washington — isn’t?
November 17th, 2008 at 1:46 pmWow. Maybe they’ll actually do something to him.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:50 pmI would attribute it to a fundamental difference in the personalities of liberals and conservatives.
Conservatives rush to cast everything as black-and-white while liberals evaluate shades of gray.
Black-and-white thinking serves Republicans well at the polls usually, and Democrats generally consider (and sometimes settle on) better real-world solutions to problems because they’re not trying to respond to a cartoon version of reality.
In terms of personnel decisions, Republicans are quick to judge and then stick with that judgment. (Usually, that judgment is IOKIYAR.) Democrats, not so much, and this can come across as being spineless.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:50 pmI don’t think I’ve ever heard Lieberman give any explanation as to WHY he said the things he did about the President-Elect in particular and Democrats in general. I think that before anyone can talk about Lieberman staying in any of his positions, we (and I’m talking the public, especially his constituency in Connecticut, NOT some private closed meeting of the Democratic Party Elite) need to hear from his own lips why he said what he said.
And once that is done, then we need to hear why, after saying all those things, we should turn around with open arms and let him off the hook.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:54 pmThe fundamental, troubling overwhelming aspect of our foreign policy is that we support Israel. We sell huge amounts of arms to Israel. 99% of our decisions are based gauged on Israel’s expecations, needs and wants. 9/11 was hugely Isreal based. Isreal is the most dangerous coutry in the world and Lieberman & the current Washington mindset are slaves to AIPAC
November 17th, 2008 at 1:59 pmIt is a mistake for Obama and the Dems think that the Repukes are going to play nice and do what is right for America.
I know Obama wants to bring the nation together and wants for everyone to work as one, but Repukes are not going to do that, they will do everything they can to destroy him and make his Presidency fail.
They need to understand that Joe was helping Repukes and slandering Obama.
He should be kicked out ASAP.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:00 pmBailiff, whack his pee-pee…
November 17th, 2008 at 2:06 pmMake him crawl through the senate spanking machine. Smack the giant poopload!
November 17th, 2008 at 2:08 pmRalph @ 22,
November 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pmJoe Lieberman was actually elected V.P. of the united states by popular vote as a DEMOCRAT in 2000!
The telecoms threw a party at the Democratic national convention and the democratic debates were sponsored by the coal industry !
While I give some credence to your post above , isn’t it a bit naive to think that the democrats are not influenced by big money and that all their faults are caused by virtue of their civility and tolerance toward differences ?As you pointed out sometimes thing are not just black and white .
Both sides of the aisle are bought and paid for ! America , the best democracy money can buy !
November 17th, 2008 at 2:14 pmIf McCain had won, would Lieberman be begging to caucus with the Dems? I think NOT.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:17 pmMilitarism and AIPAC are not serving either the American or Israeli peoples well . Peace, compassion and justice are the greatest weapons against terror !
November 17th, 2008 at 2:18 pm911 is the day the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile !
Thank you Freeman for speaking the truth! Our continued reckless foreign policy is draining precious resources for money for infrastrucure for this country. Our already tanked civilian economy is so evident as the Military Economy booms. Even the Pentagon Advisory Board is warning to put the breaks on. But fortunes for the Military, Blackwater, etc looms forever.
Meanwhile Circuit City shutters.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:30 pmMeanwhile Tweeter shutters.
Meanwhile….
The United states overthrew the government of Iran ! The United states and Europe failing to repeat the task armed Saddam Hussein in a war against Iran that took more than a million lives .
November 17th, 2008 at 2:34 pmIsrael is armed to the teeth in the Mid East in order to protect and advance America’s agenda there as well as the Zionists dreams of a racist state which occupies far more than than it has any right to possess and whose population is as much in favor of as Americans are of neo conservativism .
Let the voices for peace both in Israel and the US be heard before it is too late !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sRqqS1peWk
how many battleships , how many troops ? Good question Joe ?
Israeli’s and palestinians are brothers !
November 17th, 2008 at 2:38 pmONE WORLD, ONE PEOPLE, ONE DESTINY !!!
Bob Marley
I’m offended by Israeli policies too but I’m sorry……Israel recently got it’s ass handed to them by some loosly organized Lebonese guys.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:47 pmFred,
November 17th, 2008 at 2:56 pmLebanon and Iran were thought to be the most likely countries to become more democratic in the Mid East pre 911 . The war in Iraq finished off the hope in Iran throwing the government there to the hard liners . 28 days of bombing of the civilian infrastructure of Lebanon by Israeli hawks has thrown that country back decades and brought it to the brink of a civil war . The response in Lebanon ? Elect Hamas !
Hate only creates more hate , it makes no one safer !
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1225910057976
November 17th, 2008 at 2:56 pmThe US overthrew Latin American democracies , prolonging the fight for justice on an entire continent ,though coups ,assassinations , deaths squads , influencing elections and the support of dictatorships . Only the Colombian military is likely to play ball with us !
November 17th, 2008 at 3:10 pmThis policy has turned friends into enemies and inevitably helped turn the countries of South America to the left.
Love above money ! Ethics before profits !
Unregulated greed is the problem , not only in the economic arena , but in the social , domestic and international ones as well !
freeman Says:
You keenly avoided addressing the issue that I raised.
Olmert has paid the consequenses of the failed attack in Lebonon. Israel was humiliated despite the destruction they directed at the rest of Lebonon. We should have stopped it before then……the UN that is.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:10 pmFred Says:
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freeman Says:
You keenly avoided addressing the issue that I raised.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm………………
Keenly is too kind a criticism Fred , it went over my head , I mised your point .
The price the Lebaneese paid for the “consequences” to Olmert and his party were far too high , in any case .I think we agree here .
Still Israeli plans to use the same failesd stratedgy , only more so ,according to the article I linked to by the Jerusalem post @ #38 in the next attack on it’s neighbor .
November 17th, 2008 at 3:18 pmfreeman Says:
You know, it was peaceful relativly in Israel in the nineties. Can we say Jimmy Carter.
Can we say it is the way it is now by design of the neocons who have been calling the shots and that it might at least calm down somewhat now that they are gone?
November 17th, 2008 at 3:23 pmI have no problem with that idea Fred , your right .But remember that the democrats who controlled the legislature during the Carter years insured his presidency was largely unsuccessful in other areas, despite the fact that he was a democratic president .
November 17th, 2008 at 3:43 pmOnce again you lead away from the issue. There can be some degree of peace in the mid east with democrats running forign policy. The republicans do not want it to be peaceful there.
Why bring up other areas?
November 17th, 2008 at 3:56 pmFred
November 17th, 2008 at 4:04 pmWhen the cold war ended 1/2 of the countries economy was sold down the river , the golden goose was cooked . I believe the corporate military industrial complex was frantic for a new reason to exist .
If only the republicans voted for war and new weapons systems the goose have been served for Christmas dinner years ago .
Joseph LIEberman’s a Democrat now?
November 17th, 2008 at 4:05 pmWhen the fuch did that happen?
I will absolutely agree that the democrats are the LESSER of two evils ,but they are still culpable .
November 17th, 2008 at 4:06 pm