Detestable Worm: Lieberman: 'Thank God' political momentum now with Republicans

[cali]

By Michael O'Brien - 04/13/10 10:43 AM ET

It's a good thing that voters have moved against the prospect of one-party control of Congress for decades, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said.

Lieberman, an Independent senator who caucuses with Democrats, acknowledged momentum for the GOP and said that independents had become alienated from Democrats, who control both the House and the Senate.

"There were a lot of people, particularly Democrats, who were declaring after the 2008 election that we were beginning a period of Democratic dominance that would go on for decades," Lieberman said during an interview with the conservative Newsmax magazine. "Now, all of a sudden, the momentum is with the Republicans. And that's — thank God — that's the way people have spoken, you know? That's our democracy."

The Connecticut senator has stepped on the toes of fellow party members before, having endorsed his Republican colleague, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), for president in 2008 over Barack Obama, who was a Democratic senator from Illinois at the time.

"If the election were held today, there's no question that there'd be significant Republican gains in Congress," Lieberman said.

The shift, Lieberman asserted, was due to independents who "have turned either toward the Republican Party or against Democrats."

<snip>

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/91851-lieberman-thank-god-political-momentum-now-with-gop

[BurtWorm]

1. Could you not pick on worms please?

Could you not use "worm" and "lieberman" in the same sentence?

:wtf:

[Kookaburra]

2. For crying out loud...

He's insufferable.

He really is fighting his slide into obscurity tooth and nail, isn't he?

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Thank god he's saying that -

when's the last time he was right about ANYTHING?

[ericinne]

4. Let's fix that

The shift, Lieberman asserted, was due to independents who "have turned either toward the Republican Party or against Democrats."

Substitute the word "independents" for "Joe Lieberman".

[redqueen]

5. Hope those CT dems who voted for him

are paying attention to what they enabled.

[Tesha]

13. How about all those DLC Democrats who endorsed him *OVER THE ACTUAL DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE*?

They would include, IIRC, one Barack Obama.

Tesha

[redqueen]

14. They endorsed him after the primary?

Elected Dems?

Really? Got a source?

[Toasterlad]

6. Former Vice President Joe Lieberman, Ladies and Gentlemen!

Got any more for us, Joe?

[Blue Owl]

7. Let the GOP enjoy their steaming mug of Joementum in peace

n/t

[JHB]

8. Remind me again how it was "pragmatim" to give Joe his seniority and chairmanships back...

...without having a strong "insurance policy" to keep him in line?

[thereismore]

9. Which God would that be? The one evangelical repigs claim is a false Jewish God? nt

[thereismore]

10. Oh yea, he is irrelevant now. Thanks Scott Brown. nt

[Are_grits_groceries]

11. Ignore Lieberturd.

It drives him crazy when he isn't getting any attention. In order to even show up on the radar with teabaggers and such in the news, he has to make statements that are more and more provocative. He wants somebody to rant and rave about him in the media.

Everytime he makes these stupid remarks, he just seals his fate more. They make good ammunition for elections.

[dem mba]

12. I don't know anyone who predicted decades of Dem dominance

do you?