Lieberman shunned in Senate - "You could feel the temperature drop..."

[KurtNYC]

You could feel the temperature drop as Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut entered the Senate chamber yesterday for the first time since he lost his Democratic primary last month and became an independent candidate.

Democratic leaders Richard Durbin (Ill.) and Charles Schumer (N.Y.) kept a safe distance. Christopher Dodd (Conn.) gave him a perfunctory handshake. Harry Reid (Nev.), the minority leader, turned his back; when Lieberman approached, Reid indulged him in a quick handshake then quickly busied himself in another conversation.

The article is full of great bits:

Speaking to reporters off the Senate floor, (Dodd) chided Lieberman sharply. "Joe made a decision to do what he wanted to do, and other people respect the decision by voters," he said angrily. "You don't just disregard that, okay?" ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/06/AR2006090601808.html

[Felinity]

1. Beautiful

But is it so much to ask for someone to put a whoopie cushion on his chair, too?

[SoFlaJet]

9. LOL

pretty good

[SDDEM06]

2. I'm surprised Frist et al didn't run over

and give Joe a big sloppy kiss.

[wicket]

14. Probably done in private

:P

[Mythsaje]

3. No obvious bias in THAT article...

"Partisanship is more important than friendship."

Or, maybe, believing in doing the right thing is more important than kissing the same ass the Republicans like to kiss.

Ya think?

[Roy]

7. How bout "Friendship is more important than constituents.......

This sounds more like what Ms. Landrieu meant with her quip about friendship being more important than partisanship.

[IChing]

4. Joe asks?

Why are the Democrats acting partisan to me?

oxymoron from a moron.

[C_U_L8R]

5. NOBODY likes a poor sport

and Joe really blows

[bluedog]

6. Joseph Lieberman received an ovation (someones lying)

............. Joseph Lieberman received an ovation from fellow U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday while his anti-war challenger, Ned Lamont, won more party vows of support in the November 7 election.



................, Reid saluted Lieberman upon his return to Congress for the first time since losing the Democratic primary in Connecticut to Lamont last month, and beginning a new bid for re-election as an independent.

"Welcome back, Joe," Reid of Nevada told Lieberman at a closed-door meeting of Senate Democrats, prompting lawmakers to stand and applaud the three-term incumbent who was the party's 2000 vice presidential nominee. "Glad you are back."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060907/pl_nm/lieberman_dc

[Dhalgren]

8. This is one of the dumbest articles I have ever read.

Let a Refucklicon Senator be beaten in a primary and then decide to run against the Republofascist candidate and see how "partisan" the Pukes get! This is just a ridiculous hatchet job piece of shit article and should not even have been linked...

[quiet.american]

16. So well put. Thank you. n/t

[patricia92243]

10. Thanks for posting. I need some good news. I am about to have a heart at

attack over this 9/11 propoganda film.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. What, Mark Pryor didn't hug him?

[wisteria]

12. This piece is done to start trouble. I suspect it is of Republican doing

All other accounts were cordial- perhaps a little to cordial. Democrats giving him a standing ovation and others saying no one really wanted to see him lose.

[madinmaryland]

13. Great comment by Dodd!!!!

[European Socialist]

15. Joe Lieberman and Brit Hume voices sound like they are taking a dump.

I guess they are dumping on us.

[adamuu]

17. This part hit my funnybone

"Hey, you know, that's politics," Senator Pariah told reporters who besieged him off the Senate floor. Lieberman reported that, privately, "some of the Democrats said, 'Sorry it didn't turn out better, but we hope you come back.' " He added, wryly, "I won't disclose which one said that."

It probably wasn't Dodd.

hahaha :rofl:

[Mass]

18. Reuters and Sirota say a completely different story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060907/pl_nm/lieberman_dc
http://davidsirota.com/index.php/2006/09/07/fear-and-loathing-in-the-senate-democratic-club/

I do not trust Milbank who has been lying consistently when it comes to Democrats, starting by his reporting on Conyers's hearings on the DSM.

[KurtNYC]

19. I read the article twice bc I thought it was fiction the first time

About 7 paragraphs in I was thinking 'is this parody?' Some parts lack the 'ring of truth'.

So I take your assertions with due weight. Will read the links. Thanks

[CarlVK]

20. I'm so happy this war whore got his ass kicked

Buh bye, Lieberman. Don't let the door hit ya in the ass on the way out....

[JerseygirlCT]

21. This part made me laugh:

"Lieberman reported that, privately, "some of the Democrats said, 'Sorry it didn't turn out better, but we hope you come back.' " He added, wryly, "I won't disclose which one said that."


Once again, shading the truth. Starts out with "some", ends up with "one".

[JI7]

22. the whore media loves to do Gossipy pieces on Dems

they all have a "OMG, did you hear what "fill in dem name" did". all backed up wtih anonymous sources and "unnamed Democrat".