Note to Senator Byrd and Senator Rockefeller

Should I wait until I get my inauguration tickets out of Jay's office? (4.00 / 4)

Back in October, unbeknown to regular people, the Secret Service warned the Obama family that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the future First Family. At the time I was on Rep. Lewis' wavelength.

I thought back to the Israeli-Palestinian Peace talks in Shepherdstown. Why the breakdown? There was a lack of trust from years of hateful speech on the radio and in the streets, let alone the situation of the ground. Prime Minister Rabin of Israel was assassinated by his own countryman, one of his own faith even. How did the Israelis get there?

Maybe after Temple, Rahm will cover all nine talking points, and Joe can go through why he would not have disappointed Leah Rabin. This is after Sen. LIEberSchmuck (Party of One-Conn.) told Mrs. Greenspan that "Lord knows, I have a lot to repent for" as the High Holy Days were starting?

DKos is talking about the Steering and Outreach Committee, of which Sen. Byrd is a member. During the campaign I was rebuffed by his office once, so I rephrased by letter and submitted it again. Now that the election is over, a consideration may be different. Sen. Dodd will prove loyal to Connecticut. President-elect Obama should be left tout of this Article I musical chairs.

NFTT: Support My Team or I Will Dance

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 18:08:31 PM UTC

Read you some Kagro X, do some deep breathing (4.00 / 3)

Bobby stepped down for a reason. Let's give Joe a million. Then call Jay. And remember, the staff person is someone's child. They could be a future Anne Barth, so be nice, after you read this and rember the video.

Joe Must Go. Call your Dem Senators.

Because if you ask me -- and if you've read this far, it's too late not to pretend you weren't going to -- the past few years have seen us forced to eat shitscat on torture, forced to eat shitscat on FISA, forced to eat shitscat on drilling, forced to eat shitscat on telecom immunity, forced to eat shitscat on subpoenas, and forced to eat shitscat on multiple Iraq supplementals.

And each individual serving of shitscat was swallowed with a smile and the promise that it was all worth it in order to win back the White House.

Remind me again where Mr. "With Us on Everything But the War" was on that score?

We all chewed broken glass for two years to get this job done, and Joe
Lieberman slashed our tires, poured sugar in our gas tanks, and
generally took every opportunity he could to fart in the Big Tent he
now prays will shelter him.

Woe fucking betide any Senator who votes to save this saboteur.

But hey, that's just me, gettin' my Rahm on. All the cool kids are doing it.

Sen. Dorgan is head of the Democratic Policy Committe. He was the lone wolf baying in the distance when the Dems were the minority. He hated the offshore companies getting DHS and DOD contracts. Mr. CA's brother-in-law used to work for him, so maybe I am prejudiced. Maybe we could make headway with him also.  
Phone  (202) 224-2551
Fax (202) 224-1193

Senator Robert C. Byrd is on the Democratic Steering Committee. Email Sen. Byrd. He has a category called "Congress". As a constituent this will get read.
Senate Office - (202) 224-3954
Charleston - (304) 342-5855
Martinsburg - (304) 264-4626

Here are the rest (VP-Elect Biden was on this):

Jeff Bingaman (New Mexico) - 202-224-5521
Barbara Boxer (California) - 202-224-3553
Daniel Inouye (Hawaii) - 202-224-3934
Tom Harkin (Iowa) - 202-224-3254
John Kerry (Massachusetts) - (202) 224-2742
Ted Kennedy (Massachusetts) - 202-224-4543
Debbie Stabenow (Michigan)  - (202) 224-4822
Carl Levin (Michigan) - 202-224-6221
Max Baucus (Montana) - (202) 224-2651
Harry Reid (Nevada) - 202-224-3542
Hillary Clinton (New York) - 202-224-4451
Kent Conrad (North Dakota) - 202-224-2043
Ron Wyden (Oregon) - 202-224-5244
Patrick Leahy (Vermont) - 202-224-4242
Herb Kohl (Wisconsin) - 202-224-5653

NFTT: Support My Team or I Will Dance

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 21:16:58 PM UTC

Thanks for getting the word out (4.00 / 2)

I've sent off my email to Sen. Byrd's office already.

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by: Clem Guttata @ Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 23:00:31 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

Why did I use bold on Clinton? (4.00 / 3)

At TMP:

A high-level senate Democratic source tells me former President Clinton is making calls on Sen. Lieberman's behalf.

Are Mr. CA Pisces Powers dropping magic scales? Can I borrow the magic unicorn again?

NFTT: Support My Team or I Will Dance

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 22:22:31 PM UTC

Well, evidently not but (0.00 / 0)

the Senior Senator from New York is calling Joe out.
And so is the Senior Senator from Illinois.

Secret Ballot?

NFTT: Support My Team or I Will Dance

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Wed Nov 12, 2008 at 00:03:05 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Hidden story of the 2008 election (4.00 / 1)

"Kissyface runs all around the country talking up McCain and trashing Obama, and Obama's share of the Jewish vote goes up? Maybe the real hidden story of the 2008 election is this: Even Jews are sick of Lieberman's shtick by now."
   -- Mike Madden, on Obama winning 78 percent of the Jewish vote  source

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by: One Citizen @ Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 15:25:31 PM UTC

NEWSWEEK - Bush's Best Democratic Buddy - Joe Lieberman gives the president a pass on Katrina. (4.00 / 1)

On Jan 11, 2007 Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball of Newsweek reported...

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. ..... On Wednesday night, Bush conspicuously cited Lieberman's advice as being the inspiration for creating a new "bipartisan working group" on Capitol Hill that he said will "help us come together across party lines to win the war on terror."

But the decision by Lieberman, the new chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to back away from the committee's Katrina probe is already dismaying public-interest groups and others who hoped the Democratic victory in November would lead to more aggressive investigations of one of the White House's most spectacular foul-ups.

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. SOURCE  

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by: One Citizen @ Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 22:56:11 PM UTC