Kevin M. Kruse: Given that nothing in life made Joe Lieberman happier than making the left upset, there’s no better way to honor his memory than ranting about all the sanctimonious bullshit he pulled.

Given that nothing in life made Joe Lieberman happier than making the left upset, there’s no better way to honor his memory than ranting about all the sanctimonious bullshit he pulled.

fuck - and I cannot possibly emphasize this enough - that smarmy sanctimonious motherfucker

Lieberman is one of my OG political villains, for the first time in my adult life Democrats had the power to Do Something and that smarmy fuck sabotaged so many things I have raged against the man for well over a decade

He was a nice man, he loved his wife and John McCain, went to shul every Shabbat, and he deprived Americans of Medicare for All at the order of his CT insurance co overlords. May his memory be a blessing and fuck him.

honestly, I'm in "the name of the wicked shall perish" territory with that guy

yeah but we can take a day or two to celebrate his timely death

May his name be forgotten.

Gore's 2nd biggest failure. (The first was banning B.Clinton from his election campaign)

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Ironic that somebody with No Labels affiliations would have so many labels affixed to them: tiresome scold, egomaniacal obstructionist, Connecticut's greatest hip-hop artist, etc.

"Sanctimonious bullshit" is the perfect way to describe Lieberman & all politicians like him

You forgot vindictive

Democrats should introduce a bill in his honor lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 55

I have a crystal clear memory of the day Gore announced him as his running mate. It was the first thing I heard when my radio woke me to NPR and my first thought was, Damn, he's going to lose.

Truth, truth, truth. Whomever advised Gore to choose Lieberman and to concede his presidency (Joe, was that you, too?) to Bush changed history and paved the way for Trump.

So true. Bush 43 proved to the GOP that a moron could win the seat. They tried again with Palin, and managed to get another actual win with 45.

Oh, Reagan proved that. Shrub definitely accelerated the process, though.

McCain wanted Lieberman to be his VP pick and picked Palin out of spite after he got pushback.

I forgot about that. Thanks.

A moron who never graduated from Acting class.

Being spared a Vice President Joe Lieberman is a good thing. A mitzvah.

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I certainly didn't follow D politics back then, but was gonna vote Gore regardless. I've already glanced at this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_De... The AH fan in my wonders if a better choice (and I don't know who'd be better) would've swung 2000 or not?

Oh, he’s dead? Thank you for letting me know. I can stop wishing him a long walk off a short pier.

My favorite Joe story was how he was so much of a bloodthirsty ghoul that he kept standing and cheering during a public showing of “Behind Enemy Lines.” www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2007/02...

Joe Lieberman is a cheeseballwww.brendan-nyhan.com I don't know what's more embarrassing about this passage from Jeffrey Goldberg's New Yorker article -- the fact that Goldberg and Lieberman independently paid to see Behind Enemy Lines or the fact tha...

I was just reading about how he and William Bennett (speaking of fuck that guy) used to hand out the "Silver Sewer Award" to shows like 60 Minutes for "cultural pollution". He said that "Friends" should have been limited to late-night broadcasts. "Friends"!

Know how you can tell that Lieberman was a rancid bag of owl feces? People like Roger Stone and Mark Levin are mourning his loss and speaking highly of him.

GET HIS SANCTIMONIOUS DEAD ASS

Given his participation in No Labels to the bitter end, he would be probably pissed off he can't stick around to screw up another election for the Dems.

Inside No Labels decision to plow ahead with choosing presidential candidateswww.washingtonpost.com The group announced on a call with supporters Friday plans to announce a selection process for their third-party presidential ticket on March 14 with a nomination by April.

So glad he's not going to be around sticking his smug face on my TV pushing that No Labels BS this election. May No Labels die with him.

Raise a glass: "Fuck that guy."

Thank you for telling the truth about fucking Joe Lieberman.

The Joe Manchin of his day

He prototyped the behavior patterns adopted by Manchin and Sinema.

I'm sure others came before him as well, but not old enough to recognize who they were (and I'm in my 40's)

he won't be missed

The way I see it, if someone took great pleasure in pissing me off in life, the best way I can honor them is to take great pleasure pissing on their grave in death.

As an incompetent former-lobbyist-turned-Acting Secretary dispatched federal troops to attack protestors in 2020, I thought, once again: Thanks for the Department of Homeland Security, Joe! You smug asshole!

Worst VP pick since … Andrew Johnson? Idk.

Maybe since Spiro Agnew.

Yeah good point. Still, an enormous blunder by Gore.

That's not 100% true, nothing made Joe Lieberman happier than getting his own way, and when the left wouldn't let him get his own way, he went out of his way to upset the left.

Arguably the worst senator in my lifetime, and yes, I'm aware of McConnell et al.

May his memory be a curse.

He legit could not have been elected dogcatcher here in CT since 2004

But he managed to be successful with Connecticut for Lieberman.

(Re-replying since I can’t edit) I literally forgot about this dude until just this second.

oh thank god! I am not alone.

Yeah I don't think any Dems shed any tears for him. Or Republicans, either. He was just a tool to them, at best

He was indeed a tool, no question.

Don’t mind me, just filing some things under “Obituaries I Have Read With Great Pleasure”.

Nomentum.

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