{"id":3493,"date":"2010-11-30T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2010-11-30T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T11:00:08","slug":"lieberman-proves-unfitness-for-committee-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/lieberman-proves-unfitness-for-committee-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"LIEberman Proves Unfitness for Committee Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seldom has America seen a more duplicitous politician than Joe LIEberman.  He may claims to be an Independent.  He caucuses with Democrats.  But he is worthy of the worst insult imaginable.  Joe LIEberman is a Republican.  Ever since he returned to the Senate, having defeated Ned Lamont with Republican money and support, I have opposed his assignment to the Homeland Security Chair.  He campaigned for the Republicans.  He killed the public option.  He is a war monger.  But yesterday he proved unequivocally that he is unfit to occupy that chair and must be replaced with a Democrat or my favorite Independent.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"30Lieberman\"<\/font><\/p>\n

This morning, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) took to Don Imus\u2019s radio show to discuss the Wikileaks story. Lieberman did little to dissuade his critics on the left when he declared that his favorite television channels are \u201cFox Business\u201d and \u201cFox generally, anything Rupert Murdoch owns\u201d<\/font><\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Chair of Homeland Security must be equipped with reliable information about the issues that effect our safety and security.  Only a fool would depend on Rupert Murdoch and the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, where lies are tantamount and facts are few and far between, for news.<\/font><\/p>\n

Tell your Senator to remove Lieberman from the Homeland Security Chair<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seldom has America seen a more duplicitous politician than Joe LIEberman.  He may claims to be an Independent.  He caucuses with Democrats.  But he is worthy of the worst insult imaginable.  Joe LIEberman is a Republican.  Ever since he returned to the Senate, having defeated Ned Lamont with Republican money and support, I have opposed […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}