WHITE HOUSE AND SOURCES WHO ARE IN THE KNOW ON THIS, THERE'S A
GOOD CHANCE IT WILL BE JOSEPH LIEBERMAN.
I SERIOUSLY THOUGHT
WE WERE DONE WITH HIM AS A COUNTRY.
FORMER SENATOR, IF YOU
AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH HIM I WILL CATCH YOU UP A LITTLE BIT, BACK
WHEN HE WAS A SENATOR A LOT OF DEMOCRATS DIDN'T LIKE HIM, STILL
DON'T, THERE ARE SOME GOOD REASONS.
HE SUPPORTED THE IRAQ
WAR PERHAPS EVEN MORE HEAVILY THAN GEORGE W. BUSH DID, THAT'S
ONE REASON HE WAS PRIMARIED IN 2006 AND LOST TO NED LAMONT, WHO
WAS AN ANTIWAR CANDIDATE, THEN AGAINST THE DNC'S WISHES HE
FOUGHT IN THE GENERAL ELECTION IN THE CONNECTICUT FOR LIEBERMAN
PARTY AND WON AGAIN, HE INTRODUCED A BILL TO ALLOW
MEMBERS OF WIKILEAKS AND OTHERS TO BE PROSECUTED UNDER THE
ESPIONAGE ACT, VOTED TO INCREASE THE MYSTIC SURVEILLANCE -- I
WONDER IF BEING HEAD OF THE FBI WILL BE IN LINE WITH THOSE VIEWS
-- THREATENED TO FILIBUSTER TO STOP THE PUBLIC OPTION IN 2009
FROM BEING A PART OF THE HEALTHCARE BILL, AND HE'S
BELIEVED TO BE PART OF THE AGREEMENT THAT STRIPPED IT OUT,
HE INTRODUCED A BILL TO GRANT THE PRESIDENT A KILL SWITCH ON
THE INTERNET.
HE WILL BE HEAD OF THE FBI, THEORETICALLY.
THIS IS
THE SHORTLIST I PUT TOGETHER MOSTLY FROM MEMORY, WE CAN FILL
IT IN SOME MORE.
HE NOT ONLY HAS NO QUALIFICATIONS WHATSOEVER IN
TERMS OF A LAW ENFORCEMENT BACKGROUND OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT
-- HE'S A POLITICIAN, OBVIOUSLY, ONE WHO IS HATED VERY BROADLY.
SOME PEOPLE LIKE HIM, TO BE FAIR.
SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS
CALLED HIM A PERSON OF UNQUESTIONED INTEGRITY, LINDSEY
GRAHAM SAID IF THE PRESIDENT PICKED JOE LIEBERMAN HE WOULD BE
DOING THE COUNTRY A GOOD SERVICE, AND I THINK THE FBI A
GOOD SERVICE.
BUT DEMOCRATS AREN'T HAPPY ABOUT IT, SENATOR
SHERROD BROWN SAYS --
WE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD MEDICARE FOR ALL, BUT WE WOULD HAVE HAD
MEDICARE FOR MORE, IF NOT FOR JOE LIEBERMAN.
DICK DURBIN SAID
--
EVEN JOE MANCHIN SAID --
BUT NOT HERE.
EVEN JOE MANCHIN WAS NOT HAVING IT.
EVERYONE WHO SAID NICE THINGS ABOUT HIM WAS REPUBLICAN, TO BE
CLEAR.
THE ESTABLISHMENT SAID PRIMARIES ARE BAD, AND IF YOU
RUN AN INDEPENDENT CAMPAIGN IN THE GENERAL ELECTION THAT IS THE
WORST OF THE WORST, LIKE JILL STEIN, ETC.
BUT FUNNY ENOUGH
WHEN JOE LIEBERMAN RAN AS AN INDEPENDENT AND ENDANGERED THE
CHANCES OF THE DEMOCRATS WINNING A SEAT IN CONNECTICUT, WHICH
THEY SHOULD HAVE LOCKED UP -- YES, HOWARD DEAN WAS AGAINST IT,
BUT THE REST OF THE ESTABLISHMENT WAS LIKE, JOE IS
SO BRAVE AND PERSISTENT.
APPARENTLY HILLARY CLINTON SPOKE OUT AGAINST IT,
SHOCKINGLY.
A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT, DEPENDING ON WHO THE CANDIDATE
IS, WHETHER THEY ARE PROGRESSIVE OR NOT. AND THAT MEDICARE AT 55,
TENS OF MILLIONS COULD HAVE BEEN AFFECTED IF WE HAD GIVEN PEOPLE
MEDICARE AT 55, WE JUST NEED ONE MORE VOTE AND LIEBERMAN WAS
THEORETICALLY CAUCUSING WITH THE DEMOCRATS, AND BY THE WAY HE WAS
BARACK OBAMA'S MENTOR IN THE SENATE.
AND I DON'T KNOW WHETHER
OBAMA AGREED WITH HIM OR NOT, HE APPEARED TO NOT, BUT HE TURNED
AROUND AND SCREWED OVER ALL THE DEMOCRATS AND SAID WE AREN'T
GOING TO DO MEDICARE FOR 55 BECAUSE THAT WOULD HURT MY
DONORS WHO ARE THE INSURANCE LOBBYISTS.
HE IS THE WORST.
THAT OBVIOUSLY SCREWED OVER TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS
BUT IT ALSO SET A PRECEDENT WHEREBY APPARENTLY FROM TIME TO
TIME WE LOWER THAT AGE.
SO IF YOU LOWERED IT DOWN TO 55,
THEORETICALLY YOU COULD LOWER TO 50, AND LOWER IT SOME MORE.
BUT
WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT IN LARGE PART BECAUSE OF JOE LIEBERMAN.
SO LITERALLY FOR MONEY HE'S DENYING HEALTH CARE TO POOR
PEOPLE.
SO IS HE BETTER OR WORSE THAN JUST A REGULAR CRIMINAL?
IS
HE BETTER OR WORSE THAN SOMEONE WHO ROBS A BANK?
HE IS HURTING
MORE PEOPLE THAN A GUY WHO ROBS A BANK, HURTING MORE PEOPLE THAN
SOMEONE WHO STABS SOMEONE AND RUBS THEIR WALLET.
HE'S HURTING
MORE PEOPLE THAN A RAPIST.
HE'S WORSE THAN ALL THOSE PEOPLE AND
IS DOING IT FOR FUCKING MONEY AND SOMEONE HAS TO SAY SOMETHING
IN PUBLIC LIFE THAT YOU CAN'T SCREW OVER YOUR OWN COUNTRY FOR
MONEY AND THEN GET ACCEPTED IN POLITE SOCIETY.
HE'S A PIECE OF
GARBAGE FOR WHAT HE DID, IT'S NOT OKAY.
WHAT'S IRONIC IS THAT FOR SAYING THAT, YOU WOULD BE
OSTRACIZED FROM WASHINGTON 1000 TIMES MORE THAN HE WOULD.
BECAUSE THE EFFECT OF HIS POLICIES -- THEY THINK IT'S ALL
A GAME.
THAT'S WHY I GET MAD AT THE BREITBARTS AND ANN COULTERS
AND ALL THAT, IT'S NOT A GAME.
SO MANY PEOPLE DIDN'T GET
HEALTHCARE BECAUSE JOE LIEBERMAN WAS THE VOTE THAT BLOCK THAT
BILL.
IF HE HAD VOTED THE RIGHT WAY, ALMOST PEOPLE COULD'VE
GOTTEN HEALTHCARE, IT WOULD'VE BEEN MORE AFFORDABLE, AND BY THE
WAY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WOULD'VE SAVED ALL THIS MONEY.
BUT HE DOES THAT AND THEY SAY, THAT'S THE HONORABLE GENTLEMAN
FROM CONNECTICUT.
IF JIMMY SAYS WHAT HE JUST SAYS, HOW DARE YOU
TALK ABOUT JOE LIEBERMAN THAT WAY?
AND WHY?
BECAUSE THEY KNOW
JOE LIEBERMAN, THEY KNOW HIM, AND IF YOU OFFEND HIM, THEY FEEL
LIKE THAT'S A CRIME.
THOSE OTHER PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T GET INSURANCE
BECAUSE OF JOE LIEBERMAN, ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THE
IRAQ WAR, THEY DON'T KNOW THEM.
JOE LIEBERMAN HELPED TO PUT ALL
THAT INTO EFFECT AND DID IT FOR HIS OWN FINANCIAL GAIN, THEY ARE
LIKE, THAT'S HOW WASHINGTON IS.
JIMMY, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS A
MONSTER FOR CRITICIZING, IN THE TERMS HE DOES, THE PEOPLE WHO
MAKE THOSE DECISIONS.
HOW DARE YOU?
THAT'S THE GAME WE'RE ALL PLAYING.
THAT'S PROBABLY THE WORST THING HE DID, BUT I CITED
SPECIFIC AREAS WHERE HE HAS SUPPORTED MASSIVE EXPANSIONS OF
EXECUTIVE POWER, THE ABILITY TO TAKE AWAY ANY SENSE OF PRIVACY
YOU HAVE IN TERMS OF ELECTRONICS, PHONE CALLS, ALL
THAT, HE'S BEEN CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER IN FAVOR
OF GIVING GROUPS LIKE THE FBI OR THE PRESIDENT REGARDLESS OF
PARTY THE ABILITY TO SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET, TO SPY INTO WHAT
YOU SAY AND DO, IF PEOPLE LEAK INFORMATION HE WANTS THEM LOCKED
UP, HE HAS LITTLE RESPECT FOR JOURNALISTS OR WHISTLEBLOWERS,
AND THOSE ARE AREAS SPECIFICALLY WHERE HE WAS HEAD OF THE FBI HE
WOULD BE ABLE TO ENSHRINE THOSE DRACONIAN POLICIES INTO OUR
GOVERNMENT.
HE IS SPECIFICALLY UNQUALIFIED AND HORRIFIC FOR THE
POSITION HE'S BEING OFFERED.
BUT IT PALES IN COMPARISON TO THE REASON HE SHOULDN'T BE THE
HEAD OF THE FBI NOW -- HE IS WORKING AT THE LAW FIRM THAT
REPRESENTS TRUMP.
YOU CAN'T PUT YOUR OWN LAWYER AS THE HEAD OF
THE FBI.
WHY ARE WE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION?
THAT'S MENTAL.
IT'S MENTAL.
BUT IF YOU SAY NO, THEY SAY HOW DARE YOU?
DISCOVER WAS
ELECTED, HE COULD DO WHAT HE WANTS.
AND IT'S THE HONORABLE
JOE LIEBERMAN.
THIS ANSWERS THE QUESTION ABOUT WHEN HE FIRED
COMEY IF HE DID IT TO TAKE SOME HEAT OFF OF HIM, JUST WAIT
TO SEE WHO HE NOMINATES.
IF HE'S GOING TO HIRE HIS OWN LAWYER, GEE, I WONDER IF
HE'S GOING TO BE INDEPENDENT.