I think this is the year, folks. I think this is the year that the Senate's most useless member (boy, is that an insult), Joe Lieberman, finally gets voted out of office for being the spineless, pandering, Republican-in-Somebody-Else's clothing that he is. Democratic voters in Connecticut finally will realize that if they really want a Republican Senator, they can pull the other lever; Republican voters, meanwhile, no longer will have to decide between a Democratic candidate who's more conservative than their candidate or a Republican candidate who's more liberal than their oppopnent but keeps the numbers in their favor.
Here's a short list of things that will push Mr. Lieberman to the unemployment line: he's pro-NAFTA; he supports Capital Punishment; he's vehemently in favor of the U.S.-led Iraq War, so much so that he has criticized almost all of his fellow Democrats who oppose the war; he wanted to censor Marilyn Manson; he acted like a holier-than-thou fuckface during the Monica Lewinsky Scandal; he sided with hypocritical hillbilly billionaire doctor Bill Frist and the rest of his sanctimonious Republican asshole comrades in the Terry Schiavo situation; he wants to compromise (read: give in to Bush & Co.) on Social Security; he believes religious faith should be allowed a place in publicly run operations; and finally my favorite: he is in favor of giving hospitals in Connecticut the right not to offer emergency contraceptive pills to rape victims, if to do so would be against the hospital's moral and religious beliefs because -- are you ready for this? -- he believes that Connecticut has enough hospitals not to make it too much of an inconvenience for rape victims to travel between them! I repeat: he is in favor of giving hospitals in Connecticut the right not to offer emergency contraceptive pills to rape victims, if to do so would be against the hospital's moral and religious beliefs because -- are you ready for this? -- he believes that Connecticut has enough hospitals not to make it too much of an inconvenience for rape victims to travel between them! I'm sure the ladies of Connecticut will feel so fortunate to have to travel such a short distance from one conveniently located hospital to another after they've just been raped!!!
Can anyone tell me why this man is in office? As a Democrat no less? What kind of indentity crisis are the Connecticut voters experiencing to cause them to have elected this guy to three consecutive terms by landslide margins?
The irony, of course, is that Lieberman became a Senator by defeating incumbent Republican Lowell Weiker, whose voting record was too liberal for many of his Republican constituents. Lieberman was considered so much more conservative than Weiker that the National Review endorsed Lieberman! Now, if all comes full circle, Lieberman will be voted out of office because his voting record was considered too conservative for his Democratic constituents.
Look out, Joe -- unemployment can be a bitch.
