{"id":3891,"date":"2011-01-19T11:09:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T19:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2011-01-19T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T19:09:33","slug":"good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has to be the best news I\u2019ve heard this week.  I\u2019m sure you have already heard it from a lot of places already, but I cannot let the day pass without commenting on my absolute revulsion for Joe Lieberman and pleasure that he has announced his retirement, before voters retire him in 22 months.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"19Lieberman\"Connecticut U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2000, has decided not to seek reelection next year, Democratic officials said.<\/p>\n

Lieberman, 68, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, scheduled a news conference in Stamford, Conn., on Wednesday to make it official.<\/p>\n

He’s a former leader of the Democratic Party’s centrist wing and was Al Gore’s 2000 veep pick.<\/p>\n

He was forced out of the party in 2006 over his support for the Iraq war when Ned Lamont, an anti-war Democrat, beat him in a Senate primary.<\/p>\n

Lieberman pivoted and ran as an independent, beating Lamont in the general election.<\/p>\n

He drew the ire of many rank-and-file Democrats in 2008 by endorsing Republican John McCain’s presidential run over President Obama\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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For Harry Reid to support Lieberman to retain the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee was political opportunism that blew up in their faces.  Other that Max Baucus, Lieberman was the member of the Democratic caucus most responsible for the failure of the Public Option.  And for the chair of a major committee to campaign publicly for McCain and Palin thanked Reid for his support in a betrayal of Republican proportions.  He should not hold that post.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has to be the best news I\u2019ve heard this week.  I\u2019m sure you have already heard it from a lot of places already, but I cannot let the day pass without commenting on my absolute revulsion for Joe Lieberman and pleasure that he has announced his retirement, before voters retire him in 22 months. […]<\/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-3891","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\/3891","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=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}