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@davidsirota
If only audacity - hope - change - yes-we-can (but won't 😡) #Obama (and sidekick #Biden) had stood up to Rahm Emanuel, Joe Lieberman, Max Baucus, others and fought for public option (never mind single-payer Universal Health Coverage Medicare-for-All)😡
#PublicOption #M4A #RahmEmanuel #JoeLieberman #MaxBaucus

@GrimmReality is that a #JoeLieberman subtoot? 😄

#JoeLieberman was a self-important "Both Sides" shitheel, the biggest mistake Al Gore made in his entire life. He single-handedly gave GWB the White House with his pious, lecturing sanctimony, giving us the Iraq War & stopping the fight against Climate Change with his pathological need to be seen as "above politics", fuck other Democrats.
The fucking "No Labels" bullshit fits right in his MO, only hurts Dems.
Thousands of dead Iraqi children stare up from their graves thanks to that asshole.

@planettimmy

#JoeLieberman singlehandedly blocked Obama’s paltry effort to add a “public option” to the already watered-down and insurance-co-friendly ACA (Obamacare) at the behest of his donors from the Great State of Cigna (Connecticut).

Then when he was successfully primaried by a popular Democrat (Ned Lamont) he ran as an independent and kept his Senate seat with Republicans’ help.

He was the Joe Manchin of his day. A smug quisling “centrist” corpocratic asshole.

The Daily Beast, Paul Begala 2009: "Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is identified as (I-CT). But the 'I' does not stand for 'Independent.' It stands for 'Insurance Industry.'
Begala says Lieberman opposed reform in 1993 and 1994 for the same reasons he opposes it now: he receives significant support from the insurance companies.

#joeLieberman

#JoeLieberman, #IraqWar Cheerleader and Killer of #PublicOption, Dead at 82

https://www.commondreams.org/news/joe-lieberman

Ex-US-Senator Lieberman im Alter von 82 Jahren gestorben

Joe Lieberman war der erste jüdische Kandidat für den Posten des US-Vizepräsidenten. Nun ist der Demokrat im Alter von 82 Jahren gestorben. Er galt als außenpolitischer Hardliner, vertrat aber gleichzeitig liberal-soziale Ansichten.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ex-us-senator-liebermann-gestorben-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#JoeLieberman

@msbellows

Heartless, I know, but I say, good riddance. #joelieberman

To quote a line from the musical "A Chorus Line":
"...and I felt nothing." #JoeLieberman

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-sen-joe-lieberman-has-died-at-82/ar-BB1kEqv1

Remember Joementum? A virtual 3-way tie for 3rd place? #JoeLieberman

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Lieberman would have been Vice President if the 2000 US Election wasn't screwed up.

That was the beginning of the end really…

I wonder how different the world might have been if Gore and Lieberman had gained the White House.
#USPoli #JoeLieberman #AlGore
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68681088

@flexghost

#JoeLieberman died?

Nice sunny, breezy day here is Appalachian Ohio. Birds chirping, flowers blooming. Grass is going to need to be cut soon.

So, Joe Lieberman died?

We lost everything in the early days of my Parkinson's Plus. Everything we worked hard for until medical bills took everything away & we qualified for help. He screwed the pooch with Obamacare. We became healthcare migrants for better coverage.

So, I think I'll take my powerchair outside and enjoy the birds&breeze.

…in #JoeLieberman’s 2012 farewell #Senate speech. “The greatest obstacle I see standing between us & the brighter American future we all want is right here in Washington,” he told colleagues. “It is the #partisan #polarization of our #politics which prevents us from making the principled compromises on which #progress in a #democracy depends.”

[just take a look at the House of Representatives for confirmation. Not that I’d go along w/any of House Republicans inane performative policies.]

#JoeLieberman generally voted w/his party (#Democrats), but he sided w/ #Republicans on cutting the capital gains tax, vouchers for parents to send their children to private schools, & placing restrictions on consumer lawsuits against corps, the latter of special interest to #Connecticut’s large #insurance companies.
His willingness to buck his party put him at odds w/teachers, trial lawyers & other powerful Dem constituencies. But it gave him influence w/in the increasingly #polarized #Senate….

…In Washington, #JoeLieberman became known as a serious-minded legislator adept at working w/colleagues on both sides of the aisle. One of his earliest achievements was having a leadership role in the bipartisan amendment in 1990 of the #CleanAirAct, beefing up federal #regulation of #pollutants.

He was also proud of bipartisan govt changes he helped enact after the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, most prominently the creation of the #DHS & the restructuring of the #intelligence community.

“I have not always fit comfortably into conventional political boxes,” #JoeLieberman said near the end of his #Senate career, an understatement that tiptoed around the anger his maverick ways stoked among many liberals.

His transition from #AlGore’s running mate in 2000 on the Democratic ticket to high-profile cheerleader for #JohnMcCain 8 yrs later was a turnaround unmatched in recent American politics.

His full-throated support of the 2003 invasion of #Iraq & the increasingly unpopular #war that followed doomed #JoeLieberman’s bid for the Democratic presidential nom in 2004 & led to his rejection by #Connecticut #Democrats when he sought his 4th #Senate term in 2006. He kept his seat by running that Nov as an #independent candidate & attracting substantial support from #Republican & unaffiliated voters.

#JoeLieberman viewed himself as a centrist #Democrat, solidly in his party’s mainstream w/ his support of #AbortionRights, #EnvironmentalProtection, #GayRights & #GunControl. But he was also unafraid to stray from Democratic orthodoxy, most notably in his consistently hawkish stands on #ForeignPolicy.

#JoeLieberman, senator & VP nominee, dies at 82

#JosephLieberman, the doggedly independent 4-term #US #senator from #Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for VP in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died March 27 in NYC. He was 82.

The cause was complications from a fall, his family said in a statement.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/joe-lieberman-senator-vice-president-dead/

Joe Lieberman Dies: Former Senator And Vice Presidential Candidate Was 82
#News #Politics #2024election #ElectionLine #JoeLieberman #Obituaries

https://deadline.com/2024/03/joe-lieberman-dead-senator-vice-presidential-candidate-1235870129/

@indivisibleteam Seditionists #NoLabels is planning for another insurrection. Great, just great. I hope #AdamKinsinger and #JoeLieberman are aware they will be throwing this election to Donald Trump and destroying democracy.

Beware the Ides of No Labels

#whiny
#JoeLieberman

"The idea that it's common sense for any Democrat or moderate Republican to run a third-party candidacy at a time when we are facing one of the most serious political challenges in our history is very dark comedy. There has never been a worse time to do something like this." #NoLabels is bad. #JoeManchin is bad. #JoeLieberman is bad. That's all you need to know. https://www.salon.com/2023/07/21/the-opposite-of-common-sense-no-labels-campaign-in-2024-is-a-revenge-plot-against-democrats/

#NoLabels #JoeLieberman has always been such a nothing & yet in his inconsequentialness may assure us a #dictatorship. While #RFKJR should be in a padded cell w/ straight jacket & he may secure same. #2024Election #Vote #Biden

Today in #Connecticut History, March 16: Quick— What Rhymes with “Connecticut”?

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/03/16/march-16-quick-what-rhymes-with-connecticut/

#20thcentury #americanrevolution #bicentennial #connecticutgeneralassembly #connecticuthistory #connecticutstatesong #ellagrasso #joelieberman #josephlieberman #march #musichistory #revolutionarywar #thestate #thomasmeskill #williamo'neill #yaleuniversity