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January 12, 2007
Joe Lieberman gives the president a pass on Katrina
Jan. 11, 2007 - Sen. Joe Lieberman, the only Democrat to endorse President Bush’s new plan for Iraq, has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.Last year, when he was running for re-election in Connecticut, Lieberman was a vocal critic of the administration’s handling of Katrina. He was especially dismayed by its failure to turn over key records that could have shed light on internal White House deliberations about the hurricane, including those involving President Bush.
Asserting that there were “too many important questions that cannot be answered,” Lieberman and other committee Democrats complained in a statement last year that the panel “did not receive information or documents showing what actually was going on in the White House.”
Among the missing material: the record of a videoconference in the White House Situation Room in which former Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown said he warned senior officials about the dire situation in New Orleans, but was greeted with “deafening silence.” Also missing: records believed to include messages and conversations involving the president, Vice President Dick Cheney and their top aides during the days in late August and early September 2005 when the Katrina disaster was unfolding and thousands of city residents were flocking to overcrowded shelters and hanging onto rooftops awaiting rescue.
But now that he chairs the homeland panel—and is in a position to subpoena the records—Lieberman has decided not to pursue the material, according to Leslie Phillips, the senator’s chief committee spokeswoman. “The senator now intends to focus his attention on the future security of the American people and other matters and does not expect to revisit the White House’s role in Katrina,” she told NEWSWEEK.
I've kept relatively quiet about Lieberman's "win" in Connecticut, because through my rage I have yet to find a way to articulate how angry I am that the man, who was defeated during the primary as a Democrat, then went on to run as an Independent, was embraced by DLC Democrats and Republicans alike during his "third party" run, but was allowed to come back now and still remain the head of his committee despite the fact he isn't a Democrat anymore and despite the fact he kisses Bush's ass regularly and with gusto!
The DLC Democrats shot themselves in the foot with this one, along with sacrificing the rest of the country! Lieberman is completely removed from reality and he will not do what is right. He has no notion of what right actually is, other than right wing lunacy, which he's fully quite capable of. But true right escapes him, the right that is moral and good. He is far from either, just like his puppet master Mr. Bush. Now he's not even going to follow through on his campaign "promise" of investigating the White House's complete lack of action when it came to the events leading up to Hurricane Katrina and it's horrible aftermath and he never had any intention of actually doing anything of the sort, he was just shooting off at the mouth to be re-elected after he'd already lost! New Oreleans continues to have many issues still today today and over a year later is no where near being rebuilt! All because now he's in Bush's pocket, which enrages me to no end!
Quite simply Liebermann is not our friend, he's a puppet for Bush and all of the DLC Democrats who supported Lieberman and did not campaign for Lamont. They did this to America. Both Clintons (who I used to hold in great esteem!), Obama (yeah that's him the wonder boy!) and all the rest of the DLCers willingly turned their back on what was right and what they should have done all in the name of what?
I hope they are happy now that he does exactly what they should have seen coming...He will repeatedly lay down with Bush and stab the rest of the country in the back!! You reap what you sow as they say and I must say I've lost my faith in all those DLCers that turned their back on Lamont to support Libermann after he had lost the primary. I can't see myself voting for a DLCer anytime in the near future.
Via MSNBC.
Posted by Dianne at January 12, 2007 12:55 PM
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