{"id":13540,"date":"2008-11-18T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T21:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/11\/18\/lieberman-dodges-bullet-accepts-bouquets.html"},"modified":"2008-11-18T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T21:37:58","slug":"lieberman_dodges_bullet_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/lieberman_dodges_bullet_a.html","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman dodges bullet, accepts bouquets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why the Senate Democrats have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/congress\/34667644.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7EaDiaMDCiUZ\" target=\"_blank\">welcomed Joe back with open arms<\/a>; I can only hope they&#8217;ve got&nbsp;secret photos to hang over his head to guarantee his vote with the caucus in the coming years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m all for forgiveness and compassion, but I&#8217;m also for holding people responsible for their actions and not being a carpet to walk on. Lieberman has been like a little kid, kicking the Dems in the shins, spitting in their soup, and knocking the flower vase onto the floor with a defiant snear. He did everything he could to tank the Democrats in this past election, but they&#8217;ve voted 42-13 to keep him in the caucus and allow him to keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Even Obama was reportedly in favor of it &#8212; which means a lot more to me than the usual gang of Democratic Senatorial Idiots favoring the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8230; bizarre.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/the_democrats_are_still_pussies_let_lieberman_off_with_a_slap_on_the_wrist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Les<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why the Senate Democrats have welcomed Joe back with open arms; I can only hope they&#8217;ve got&nbsp;secret photos to hang over his head to guarantee his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135363,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/even-republican-national-committee-backing-away-roy-moore.html","url_meta":{"origin":13540,"position":0},"title":"Even the Republican National Committee is backing away from Roy Moore","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Nov-17 8:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"They've stopped joint fund-raising events and pulled the people they sent to Alabama to help canvass for him. 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