Lieberman meets with Rumsfeld amid retirement speculation

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld hosted Senator Joe Lieberman for a breakfast meeting today amid speculation that the Connecticut Democrat could be in line to succeed him.

Lieberman, who has emerged as President Bush's staunchest Democratic defender on the Iraq war, has bucked his party as a vocal advocate for Bush's Iraq policies.

He did not talk about the morning meeting with Rumsfeld and General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Lieberman aides provided few details about the breakfast, saying that their boss does not discuss private meetings.

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=4222023&nav=3YeX

there's one less dem in the senate. A republican senator gets appointed, and as an incumbent, probably will get really elected..Then Joe tags along with McCain in 08..

Draft Dave letterman for senate.. he's from CT:)

sets us farther back in our attempts to take back that governmental body. Is Connecticut's governor a republi-CON? Then lieberman's replacement will be, also - not that he himself wasn't, in effect (or would that be - in sheep's clothing?). I watched some - not alot of - TV about it last night, and didn't hear this suspicion voiced. One would have thought it might come up during Olbermann's show, but it didn't.

or Shays!!!!!!!!!!

:(

Lieberman is a neocon and we don't need his ilk!

He will have an incumbency advantage. Shay's a a Northeastern Country-Club Republican who will attack DeLay occasionally and provide fodder for us, but he is not liberal and is barely moderate.

Weicker was very popular.

He was proverbially lynched for signing the income tax into law and his Lt. Governor lost her election bid to replace him in 1994 partly as a result (although 1994 was a good year for Republicans in general.) However, even having Shays in there for a few months is not a risk I'm willing to take. It also means that we have to spend money on a seat that should have been safe.

He was wondering what having Jomo there would do to the prayer meetings? :hide:

Is this really happening? I wouldn't put jomo in charge of the mop closet.

LIEBERMAN was retiring!
Sigh.

Periodically good men and women get sucked into this administration, and what happens to them isn't pretty. It's just too much of a deep-sea whirlpool.

But the proximity to power has got to be intoxicating, and the request to come in seductively flattering.

Say it ain't so, Joe!

Hekate

Stop the pretense of being a Democrat and follow the well worn path followed by such former "Democratic" heroes like Zell Miller, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Richard Shelby, etc.

Lieberman's defection to the Bush regime will be blamed on progressives by the dozen or so of the Lieberman apologists in this board.

A complete sellout that's what

There are lots of Gold Star Mothers who hate this fuckers guts.

I find his repeated siding with the enemy unconscionable, and I'm not personally afflicted by the war by any means - just spiritually and emotionally. I wish he'd gone awhile ago. A Dem seat is worth nothing if that Dem repeatedly and relentlessly votes with the republi-CONS, and refuses to see reason, or represent his party. Why the hell did Gore pick him, anyway? Any friend of georgie's is no friend of mine. If he goes, GOOD RIDDANCE!!!

Have a more deeply seated, recent reason, to despise this evil opportunist and coward

R-Felon in the seat, but if he's going to SoD anyhow, we've already lost that seat. Make sure we take away the "even the Democrats are joining us" spin, before it happens.

When it all comes crashing down, the options are we get to say "We couldn't stand the dumbass and threw him out of the party, no Democrat he" OR we listen to "We gave the job to a Dem and look how badly they fucked it up, vote Rethug" from the spin meisters.

And if JoeMentum always takes his Sen seat with such huge margins, then we can re-take the seat at election time. Right now, only the most koolaid addicted want to vote for a ReThug.

... from the party long ago instead of making him one of its central figures.

Still, it's comforting to imagine him going down in ignominy with the rotten Bush administration. Maybe CT can get a Democrat for a change.

Piece of shit.

With friends like Joe and Hillary...

that Rummie was not leaving, and that Lieberman (or a spokes-person for him) has said that he would not be replacing him.

As to whether or not this is true, I have no idea. Personally, I find it pretty hard to believe that shrub would replace rummie with a democrat, regardless of how much support said democrat has given him.

Colin Powell.

Being the Secretary of Defense is a tough job. Just ask Don RumsFailed. He's been the BUTT of whatever's gone wrong with this war. But the old bird is tough, though, he's hung in there longer than I thought he would.

So why would Loserman even want the job? The war in Iraq is not going to get better. It's only going to get worse. Joe is not hugely popular. In fact, I've never seen so many hostile responses to threads about him here on the DU. They're usually a mile long.

The only person who gets more hate is Bush.

So Liarman is stupid if he takes the job.

Anyone wondering just how great it's going to be to have an Orthodox Jew conducting the War on Islam, er, I mean the War on Terror?

That ought to go over well in the Muslim countries we are trying to get to help us in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I have nothing against the fact that he is an Orthodox Jew, but "jeebus", think about how this will be spun in the Middle East and Africa!!!!

People that were, are, and might be our friends will use this appointment to recruit even more Jihadist and suicide bombers. This might even cause the Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, and even the Taliban to put aside their differences and join together against what they will perceive as the 21ST Century Crusade. If the ultimate goal of this mis-administration is to have a war against Islam, this may just be the straw that breaks the proverbial camels back.

His religion "should not" have an impact on this appointment, but that does not mean that it "will not".

a) it could not be worse than what we have now;
b) the shithead would be out of his senate seat and could be replaced by an actual progressive.

Buh-bye jomentum. See ya.

sad sad day joe

at this moment. Could it be, "I chose him to be my VP...what was I thinking?"?!

Dave Letterman for Senator from CT...that could work!

How conveeenient.

:mad:

...of Amerika Krazy Krusade in the Islamic world???? Are the Republicans so blindly insane? Do they have that much gall??

Joe has long put the welfare of Israel over whatever loyalty he had to the democratic party, and the U.S.
bush's neocons, who are essentially running our foreign policy ( what there is of one ), and holy joe are a perfect fit - survival of Israel is their nr. one priority. Eventually, WW III will break out in this region; what we are doing in the region at present just might even be the start of said war.
As long as bush and the neocons stay in power, we ain't seen nothing yet. The history books, contrary to what little george seems to think, will not be kind to this administration.

From Democracy for America:

Earlier this week while discussing the war in Iraq, Senator Joseph Lieberman
said, "It`s time for Democrats who distrust president Bush to acknowledge he`ll
be commander-in-chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war
we undermine Presidential credibility at our nation`s peril."

Unfortunately, President Bush has no credibility. His administration misled our
nation into war in Iraq on trumped-up charges of weapons of mass destruction.
His stay-the-course strategy has led to over 2,100 American deaths. And no one
sees an end in sight.

It is disturbing enough that Senator Lieberman remains one of the president`s
biggest cheerleaders. But his call for opponents of the president`s failed
policy to keep quiet is outrageous.

The only way we will end this war is by having an honest debate about how and
when we can bring our troops home.

Join me in sending Senator Lieberman an open letter asking him to join the
majority of Americans in questioning the Bush administration`s Iraq policy:

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/telljoe

If Americans don`t challenge a president who is bankrupting our treasury,
damaging our moral leadership in the world, and jeopardizing our national
security then we are failing our democracy.

Please co-sign the letter today.

Jim Dean of DFA will be delivering this to Looserman's office next week.

Not that I really have much hope it'll do any good - Joe's too beholden to his riight-wing corporate masters to ever willingly serve the public good, but it's worth a shot.

not being in the senate is that we can have a democrat coalition without him ruining it.