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You are here: Home / Balloon Juice / Commentary / Don't Mourn, Organize! / Joememtum is over

Joememtum is over

by David Anderson|  March 27, 20246:09 pm| 140 Comments

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Former Democratic vice presidential nominee and Sen. Joe Lieberman has died at 82, according to a statement from his family.

The 2 game fees I donated to Ned Lamont in July 2006 was some of the most satisfying political money I’ve spent in my life.

 

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    1. 1.

      Princess

      March 27, 2024 at 6:11 pm

      Oh no. Whatever will No Labels do without him.

      Reply
    2. 2.

      Jeffro

      March 27, 2024 at 6:12 pm

      @Princess: lol

      karma is really having a year this year!

      Reply
    3. 3.

      Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)

      March 27, 2024 at 6:13 pm

      Can’t say I give a blue fuck. While it sucks for his family, the country is better off.

      Reply
    4. 4.

      Spanky

      March 27, 2024 at 6:14 pm

      Now there’s an obituary I’ll enjoy reading.

      Reply
    5. 5.

      kindness

      March 27, 2024 at 6:14 pm

      Sooo hard not to say what I’d like to, but my folks raised me better.  Well, tried to at least.

      Reply
    6. 6.

      Trollhattan

      March 27, 2024 at 6:15 pm

      This is good news for John McCain.

      Reply
    7. 7.

      debit

      March 27, 2024 at 6:16 pm

      I am sure his family will miss him.

      Reply
    8. 8.

      Tony Jay

      March 27, 2024 at 6:16 pm

      Joe Lieberman has died

      Okay.

      Reply
    9. 9.

      Tom Levenson

      March 27, 2024 at 6:16 pm

      Nil nisi bonum and all that, so I’ll just say the one good thing I can think of about Sen. Lieberman.

      He’s dead.*

      *Stolen, of course, from the possibly apocryphal story of the eulogist at Louis B. Meyer’s funeral asking Meyer’s associates for something, anything positive about the man.

      Reply
    10. 10.

      Baud

      March 27, 2024 at 6:16 pm

      The Lamont thing was such a disaster. Although I guess it could be seen as a first step.

      Reply
    11. 11.

      Spanky

      March 27, 2024 at 6:17 pm

      Does this mean Manchin is free to claim the “Joementum” slogan? I would not be surprised to see it.

      Reply
    12. 12.

      Ken B

      March 27, 2024 at 6:17 pm

      @debit:

      Maybe.

      Maybe not.

      I sure as hell won’t.

      Reply
    13. 13.

      JaySinWA

      March 27, 2024 at 6:17 pm

      Was Joe the designated fall guy for No Labels after all?

      Reply
    14. 14.

      Baud

      March 27, 2024 at 6:19 pm

      Does anyone have any details on the fall?

      Reply
    15. 15.

      Spanky

      March 27, 2024 at 6:19 pm

      Which of our msm betters will be first to reach out to ol’ Joe’s bff, dubya, to get his teary take?

      Reply
    16. 16.

      Ohio Mom

      March 27, 2024 at 6:19 pm

      Eighty-two is on the young side for someone in Lieberman’s socio-economic group. On the other hand, for my tastes, not a moment too soon.

      Reply
    17. 17.

      Rusty

      March 27, 2024 at 6:19 pm

      One of the rare times I voted for someone while holding my nose.  When I lived in Connecticut andhe ran for the senate, even then he was a self centered prima Donna who would have happily sold his grandmother’s bones for an extra sixty seconds in front of the camera.  When I heard AL Gore picked him for VP I yelled at the tv!!

      Reply
    18. 18.

      Baud

      March 27, 2024 at 6:20 pm

      He did give us the -memtum meme.

      Reply
    19. 19.

      CaseyL

      March 27, 2024 at 6:20 pm

      Nil nisi bon – nah, never mind.

      He was a petty PITA, a failure (if not an outright saboteur) as the VP candidate in 2000, a thorn in the side of the Democratic Senate caucus, and all round putz.

      My most indelible visual memory of him is one of the (many) times he voted with the GOP in the Senate during the Obama Administration – and then scurried over to the GOP side of the chamber to stand with his GOP buddies, and looked back at the Democratic caucus to see their reaction.

      Pharma lobbyists loved him for helping kill “Medicare for everyone over 55.”  Presumably his family loved him.

      Reply
    20. 20.

      piratedan

      March 27, 2024 at 6:20 pm

      He had a long battle with IA (Instant Asshole, just add power) that he failed to overcome.

      Reply
    21. 21.

      raven

      March 27, 2024 at 6:21 pm

      Xin Loi mofo

      Reply
    22. 22.

      debit

      March 27, 2024 at 6:21 pm

      @Ken B: It was the only nice thing I could think of.

      Reply
    23. 23.

      cain

      March 27, 2024 at 6:22 pm

      Eh.. I’m over this Joe, can we talk about the other Joe? The joe that’s president? That’s a good joe. The best Joe. Yo Joe!

      Reply
    24. 24.

      Spanky

      March 27, 2024 at 6:23 pm

      @Baud: Just “complications from a fall”, per the WaPo, which has put up a long and exhaustive obit. I guess they’ve been sitting on that forever.

      Reply
    25. 25.

      piratedan

      March 27, 2024 at 6:23 pm

      thot this was appropriate:

       

      Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social
      ·
      now

      The family of Joe Lieberman request that in lieu of healthcare, please send flowers.

      Reply
    26. 26.

      geg6

      March 27, 2024 at 6:24 pm

      Good fucking riddance.  If there is an afterlife, may he get the one he deserves.

      Reply
    27. 27.

      Baud

      March 27, 2024 at 6:24 pm

      @cain:

      The nice thing about the good Joe is that he’s not up in our brains 24/7 like the last guy. That’s what I’m voting for this November.

      Reply
    28. 28.

      Michael Bersin

      March 27, 2024 at 6:24 pm

      Hagiography

      Reply
    29. 29.

      Baud

      March 27, 2024 at 6:25 pm

      @Spanky:

      Yeah they all prepare obits in advance.

      Reply
    30. 30.

      Betty

      March 27, 2024 at 6:26 pm

      I was taken aback on hearing about his passing during the Nicole Wallace program when she, Matt Dowd, Rick Stengel and Marc Elias agreed that Joe was one of the kindest, most gentle men they’d known. Nothing but praise from all of them. No recollection of his vendetta against the Democrats or his efforts to prevent a second Biden win.

      Eta: I forgot to mention his integrity. Yeah, that too.

      Reply
    31. 31.

      RandomMonster

      March 27, 2024 at 6:26 pm

      As someone else said somewhere, I’m sure he had the best care that he fought so hard to deny others.

      So, ‘No Labels’ now includes ‘Alive’.

      Reply
    32. 32.

      Spanky

      March 27, 2024 at 6:26 pm

      @Spanky: According to the WaPo obit, he was a lion of the Senate, of high mortality, religious, etc, etc.

      In short, I retract what I said at #4.

      Reply
    33. 33.

      Almost Retired

      March 27, 2024 at 6:26 pm

      I hadn’t thought of him in years.  Those were good years.

      Reply
    34. 34.

      Elizabelle

      March 27, 2024 at 6:27 pm

      Joebituary.

      (Not an original quip;  I think Slate used that in 2000 to describe his presidential campaign’s primary results.)

      One less snake in the grass.  Good.

      Reply
    35. 35.

      Layer8Problem

      March 27, 2024 at 6:27 pm

      @Betty:  Did the words “public option” get brought up amidst the happy memories?

      Reply
    36. 36.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      March 27, 2024 at 6:27 pm

      Like above, hadn’t thought about him in years…which was a good thing.

      Another plus: he didn’t live as long as Kissinger.

      Reply
    37. 37.

      Elizabelle

      March 27, 2024 at 6:27 pm

      @Spanky:   High mortality.

      For sure.  LOL.

      ETA:  I am sure we are all far more saddened by the loss of the bridge workers, and anyone else caught on the collapsing Baltimore bridge.

      Reply
    38. 38.

      Scout211

      March 27, 2024 at 6:27 pm

      As I commented downstairs, Gore and his advisers made a very bad choice for Veep in Joe Lieberman.

      But times, they are a-changing.  Joe Biden made a very good choice!

      I’m younger than Lieberman but I do worry about falls.  It’s scary how hard it is as an old to catch your balance.  You just go straight down.

      Reply
    39. 39.

      Spanky

      March 27, 2024 at 6:28 pm

      @Elizabelle:

      Joebituary

      I can’t stop laughing.

      Reply
    40. 40.

      The Pale Scot

      March 27, 2024 at 6:28 pm

      Oh Dear, How Sad, Never Mind

      Reply
    41. 41.

      Michael Bersin

      March 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm

      @Betty:

      Yep. They value the appearance of comity more than achieving any progress toward a just world.

      Reply
    42. 42.

      Betty

      March 27, 2024 at 6:30 pm

      @Layer8Problem: Among his other betrayals? No.

      Reply
    43. 43.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      March 27, 2024 at 6:30 pm

      @piratedan:

      I saw that on Frank’s twitter feed.

      Frank’s a hoot and a great follow on twitter.

      Reply
    44. 44.

      Cacti

      March 27, 2024 at 6:30 pm

      Well, bye.

      Reply
    45. 45.

      JaySinWA

      March 27, 2024 at 6:30 pm

      Since this is David’s post my fall of man statistic comment from the prior post may be more relevant here:

      @MazeDancer: It is established fact that when they fall and break something, like a hip, older men die.

      I was surprised at that assertion, but it checks out (not as an absolute but significantly higher death rates between men and women).

      https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7235a1.htm#:~:text=The%20fall%2Drelated%20death%20rate%20was%20higher%20among%20men%20(91.4,other%20racial%20and%20ethnic%20groups.

      The fall-related death rate was higher among men (91.4 per 100,000) than among women (68.3). Death rates were higher among non-Hispanic White and non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native persons than among other racial and ethnic groups.

      Perhaps because men get up on and fall from ladders more often than women. I’ve heard that anecdotally from medical people. But the “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” commercial keeps playing in my head, along with personal knowledge of fall injuries (few resulting in death) that seem to tilt more toward women than men.

      ETA

      It’s like they can’t deal with being incapacitated, and they just leave.

      We may be less likely to follow medical advice after a fall related injury than a woman might as well.

      Reply
    46. 46.

      Spanky

      March 27, 2024 at 6:30 pm

      @Elizabelle: Oops.

      And fwiw, they recovered 2 of those guys today.

      Reply
    47. 47.

      JML

      March 27, 2024 at 6:30 pm

      I’m trying to think of anyone who betrayed their party more thoroughly and completely while sanctimoniously blaming others for the destruction he created and pretending he didn’t turn on everything he supposedly believed.

      Did the bright lights of a presidential campaign drive him into that madness, or was it just the catalyst he needed to bring out the arrogant prick that was always there?

      Reply
    48. 48.

      Jackie

      March 27, 2024 at 6:31 pm

      @Spanky: I read that. It was loooong… Makes one wonder if Lieberman wrote the bulk of it himself, leaving others to fill in the when and how.

      Reply
    49. 49.

      Melancholy Jaques

      March 27, 2024 at 6:31 pm

      Fuck that guy. He was not a very good Democrat to begin with and he lost a senate primary, even though he was the incumbent, because he did not give a shit what the people of this state wanted. After that, he spent the rest of his life attacking the Democratic Party and its candidates. Fuck him. I’m happy he is dead so he won’t be explaining why we should all get behind Trump or RFK Jr or whatever.

      Reply
    50. 50.

      stacib

      March 27, 2024 at 6:31 pm

      @Betty: I heard that on my drive home, and the look of puzzlement on my face could probably be sent across three lanes of traffic.  What I remember is the ratfucking he did from the time Obama was elected, not that guy they were eulogizing.

      Reply
    51. 51.

      Baud

      March 27, 2024 at 6:32 pm

      @JML: I think he was a dinosaur in a rapidly changing political party.  Unlike a Biden, he couldn’t adjust to the new reality.

      Reply
    52. 52.

      Elizabelle

      March 27, 2024 at 6:33 pm

      I will be interested in what Al Gore and either Clinton might have to say about the late and unlamented Mr. Lieberman.

      Reply
    53. 53.

      Citizen Alan

      March 27, 2024 at 6:34 pm

      @Rusty:  I still blame him for Al Gore’s loss as much as anyone else. Gore would have won with Bob Graham. But no, he had to pick America’s most obnoxious stick-up-his-ass scold. Because we needed to pick up Connecticut, I suppose.

      Reply
    54. 54.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      March 27, 2024 at 6:34 pm

      @Elizabelle:

      I will be interested in what Al Gore and either Clinton might have to say about the late and unlamented Mr. Lieberman.

      Inside words or outside words?  They’ll probably be very different.

      Reply
    55. 55.

      Baud

      March 27, 2024 at 6:35 pm

      @Elizabelle:

      True. I’m sure they’ll be diplomatic.

      Reply
    56. 56.

      Michael Bersin

      March 27, 2024 at 6:35 pm

      @stacib:

      Gaslighting. It’s in their nature.

      Reply
    57. 57.

      Fair Economist

      March 27, 2024 at 6:35 pm

      My husband knew *two* late middle aged men from his workplace (with a few hundred people) who died from falls – one in the shower and one from a ladder. He is very paranoid about ladders now.

      Reply
    58. 58.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 27, 2024 at 6:36 pm

      I would’ve titled this post “Joe Lieberman Is Finally Fucking Dead!”

      Reply
    59. 59.

      Shalimar

      March 27, 2024 at 6:37 pm

      @Betty: Wallace was also good friends with Kavanaugh during the Bush administration and speaks highly of his character too.  It’s good that she has turned away from the dark side, but her weakness seems to be that she likes everyone personally.

      Reply
    60. 60.

      Elizabelle

      March 27, 2024 at 6:38 pm

      @Spanky:  Thank you for telling me.  Immigrants, hard workers, soccer fans, family men.

      I hope they recover everyone, and soon.  The only miracle was the accident happened after midnight.

      Reply
    61. 61.

      Captain C

      March 27, 2024 at 6:38 pm

      @JML: IIRC he was a moralistic prick about the Lewinsky affair. I don’t recall him having similar public opinions about the plethora of cheating Republicans who were going after Clinton at the time.

      Reply
    62. 62.

      Elizabelle

      March 27, 2024 at 6:39 pm

      @Baud:  We shall parse.

      Reply
    63. 63.

      Kristine

      March 27, 2024 at 6:39 pm

      This was posted over on Bluesky:

      If you’re too young to remember what Joe Lieberman was like just picture Kyrsten Sinema in a suit and tie.

      https://bsky.app/profile/thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social/post/3kopk54dmul2a

      Reply
    64. 64.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 27, 2024 at 6:40 pm

      @piratedan:

      Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social

      now

      The family of Joe Lieberman request that in lieu of healthcare, please send flowers.

      That’s so good.

      Reply
    65. 65.

      David Anderson

      March 27, 2024 at 6:41 pm

      @JaySinWA: My one epi-ish paper is on places of death and falls

      https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23337214221098897

       

      Most deaths occurred in hospitals, however, the proportion decreased from 66.4% (n = 9,095) to 50.7% (n = 15,817). The proportion occurring in nursing facilities decreased from 15.9% (n = 2175) to 15.3% (n = 4,778), while deaths at home and in hospice facilities increased. Male, Black, Native American, and married decedents had increased odds of hospital death.

      Piggybacking on other conversations; I’m terrified of falls. I destroyed ankle stability as a referee and I already go to the ground a few times a year.  I’ve told my wife that the reason why I’m deadlifiting and squatting several days a week for each exercise is not to feel good today (although that is a nice benefit) but to keep me out of the hospital when I’m 75.

      Reply
    66. 66.

      raven

      March 27, 2024 at 6:42 pm

      @JaySinWA: I participated in a “Fall Prevention” study a doc student was doing at UGA. Lot’s of testing and then strategizing ways to keep upright. We have a really cool Antique Salt Glazed Nelsonville Circle Brick  sidewalk but the crape myrtle is pushing the bricks up so we’re going to have it changed to concrete. The bricks are listed for 14.99 each on eBay so I hope maybe I can sell them.

      Reply
    67. 67.

      CaseyL

      March 27, 2024 at 6:43 pm

      @Kristine: Perfect!

      While I was writing my comment at #19, it occurred to me how similar they are.

      Reply
    68. 68.

      Layer8Problem

      March 27, 2024 at 6:43 pm

      Seeing as none other than William F. Buckley Jr. declared that since Lowell Weicker was quite simply the wrong kind of Republican Senator for Connecticut and had to be stopped, and that this Lieberman fellow might prove useful even though “Democrat”, maybe he was a GOP fellow traveler from the start.

      Reply
    69. 69.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 27, 2024 at 6:44 pm

      @Baud:

      The nice thing about the good Joe is that he’s not up in our brains 24/7 like the last guy. 

      Biden is also doing the job we elected him for.  And that’s great.

      This ad is so good – For You

      Reply
    70. 70.

      raven

      March 27, 2024 at 6:44 pm

      @David Anderson: You rang?

      Reply
    71. 71.

      Whimsical Pickles

      March 27, 2024 at 6:44 pm

      Bette Davis said you should never say bad things about the dead you should only say good. Joe Lieberman is dead. Good.

      Reply
    72. 72.

      Another Scott

      March 27, 2024 at 6:44 pm

      Imagine how different the world would be if Gore had chosen almost anyone else… :-/

      Comfort to those who loved him.

      In other news, Gov. Fuzzy Vest failed again. The new Caps/Wizards arena in Alexandria, VA is dead. The teams are staying in DC, where they belong.

      Gov. Fuzzy Vest is a failure, here, also too. Maybe the idea that GQP bazillionaires know how to do effective politics will die with his failure. We can hope!

      Cheers,
      Scott.

      Reply
    73. 73.

      Marcopolo

      March 27, 2024 at 6:46 pm

      Lamont for Senate!  Those were heady days.  DailyKos was still a new thing.  And, yes,, I too chipped into that losing cause as well.  Good to see him as CT’s Gov. Now.

      Also, if you don’t have anything good to say…

      Reply
    74. 74.

      dr. luba

      March 27, 2024 at 6:47 pm

      My next door neighbor died from a fall.  I found him.  He was working in his garage, I heard a clatter, went to check.  He fell for some reason and hit his head.  On anticoagulants.  Brain bleed. Nothing could be done.

      Nice guy.  He is missed.  Unlike Lieberman.

      Reply
    75. 75.

      Spanky

      March 27, 2024 at 6:49 pm

      @dr. luba: Since the WaPo obit called it “complications from a fall”, I instantly thought it would be brain bleed.

      Reply
    76. 76.

      Ohio Mom

      March 27, 2024 at 6:50 pm

      @JaySinWA: Once you hit your sixies, at your annual physical, the doctor starts squeezing your ankles (checking for congestive heart failure) and asking, “Have you fallen in the last three months?” Falling is a big deal.

      Reply
    77. 77.

      sab

      March 27, 2024 at 6:50 pm

      Wasn’t Lieberman the experienced older mentor that the Senate assigned to Obama?

      Reply
    78. 78.

      EarthWindFire

      March 27, 2024 at 6:51 pm

      I was taught to say nothing but good about the dead. Joe Lieberman’s dead. That’s good.

      ETA: I see Whimsical Pickles got there first. Ah, well.

      Reply
    79. 79.

      Kristine

      March 27, 2024 at 6:51 pm

      Then there’s this one:

      Presumably No Labels people are buried in unmarked graves.

      https://bsky.app/profile/kagrox.bsky.social/post/3kopjg2mvtk2h

      Reply
    80. 80.

      Trivia Man

      March 27, 2024 at 6:52 pm

      When i was running for office in 2000 i met him on a rope line. After he shook my hand he took my sleeve and rubbed it between his fingers. “Nice coat”, he said. He was right – high quality thrift store camel hair that fit perfectly.

      Reply
    81. 81.

      Gin & Tonic

      March 27, 2024 at 6:53 pm

      @David Anderson: Bad news; it won’t. Leg day three days a week for a year and I still tore my lateral meniscus.

      Reply
    82. 82.

      Scout211

      March 27, 2024 at 6:53 pm

      @dr. luba:  He fell for some reason and hit his head.  On anticoagulants.  Brain bleed. Nothing could be done.

      That is how my father died. But it took many days in the hospital before he died.

      Reply
    83. 83.

      zeecube

      March 27, 2024 at 6:54 pm

      @Betty: I heard on MSNBC too, but missed all that hagiography.   I was just setting down for a “power nap”, heard Nicole, then smiled and fell asleep.

      Reply
    84. 84.

      Baud

      March 27, 2024 at 6:54 pm

      This reminds me, I need to prepare my death notice for BJ.

      Reply
    85. 85.

      hells littlest angel

      March 27, 2024 at 6:55 pm

      Heh. The Washington Post enabled comments on his obituary. For a while. What were they thinking? They scrubbed about half of them before shutting it down.

      Reply
    86. 86.

      sab

      March 27, 2024 at 6:55 pm

      @Rusty: I held my nose voting for him too. I met my future husband in the voting line. He told me that yeah Lieberman was awful but Bush was the AntiChrist. I thought that was a bit strong, until the Iraq war.

      Reply
    87. 87.

      hueyplong

      March 27, 2024 at 6:55 pm

      @Baud: We’ll be a lot more broken up by your passing.

      Reply
    88. 88.

      Warblewarble

      March 27, 2024 at 6:55 pm

      Flush the turd.

      Reply
    89. 89.

      Baud

      March 27, 2024 at 6:56 pm

      @hueyplong:

      That’s only because you don’t know who I am IRL. But thank you.

      Reply
    90. 90.

      Trivia Man

      March 27, 2024 at 6:57 pm

      @Citizen Alan: and one who actively gave cover to the bush theft while acting like gore had definitely lost Florida. If he had just STFU or been passionate about WE WON…. Whst might have been.

      Reply
    91. 91.

      JaySinWA

      March 27, 2024 at 6:58 pm

      @Ohio Mom: Been there, have been asked that (on forms anyway).

      Reply
    92. 92.

      Tony Jay

      March 27, 2024 at 6:59 pm

      @Baud:

      “Don’t bother trying the doors, you’re all coming with me.”?

      Reply
    93. 93.

      Currants

      March 27, 2024 at 6:59 pm

      @Spanky:

        Especially Loomis’s over at LGM!

      Reply
    94. 94.

      Elizabelle

      March 27, 2024 at 7:00 pm

      LOL.  The WaPost had to close their reader comments on the Joebituary, about an hour after it went up.

      Top liked comment:

      We would have a public healthcare option right now if not for Joe.

      from other readers:

      ** “Lieberman viewed himself as a centrist Democrat.” Yeah, no.

      ** Lieberman was Joe Manchin before it was cool.

      ** On the wrong side of several major issues of our times. I disagree with those claiming he did what he thought was right. He did what the Connecticut health insurance industry told him to do.

      ** The Kyrsten Sinema of his time.

      ** Hopefully the barking yam joins him soon from natural causes

      ** Terrible obituary. There is no reason to adopt his self congratulatory self aggrandizing view of his career. He changed parties and supported the GOP as it trashed American politics. He decided that the Democrat who he could not support was Obama. He sabotaged the 2000 election by attacking Clinton. Just a bad American and accepting his distortions is unworthy of the Post.

      They didn’t get the memo from Nicolle Wallace, etc.

      Reply
    95. 95.

      Johannes

      March 27, 2024 at 7:01 pm

      @JML: As Mark Twain said in a very different context, “it seems a shame they allowed him to die a natural death.”

      Reply
    96. 96.

      Elizabelle

      March 27, 2024 at 7:03 pm

      @hells littlest angel:  I believe you that the WaPost scrubbed comments.

      Somehow, their readers …. have a more accurate view of the late Senator than their access journalamists and insider types.

      Reply
    97. 97.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      March 27, 2024 at 7:06 pm

      @Currants:

      Probably the only reason to go there.  I wish they had a list of all the obits they’ve done because despite my dislike of most of the front pagers and commentariat there, some of the obits are gems.

      Reply
    98. 98.

      laura

      March 27, 2024 at 7:11 pm

      This salty, petty bitch is heartened to hear that the sad, sagging scrotum that walked like a man has shrugged off his mortal coil and is probably still making excuses at the pearly gates trying to sneak in. Well f that and F that guy.

      Reply
    99. 99.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 27, 2024 at 7:12 pm

      @Baud: He was auditioning for a role in “The Fall Guy”

      Reply
    100. 100.

      Comrade Scrutinizer

      March 27, 2024 at 7:14 pm

      @raven:

      Xin Loi mofo

      Wow.  Haven’t heard that in a fuckton of years.

      Reply
    101. 101.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 27, 2024 at 7:20 pm

      I once compared him to Saddam Hussein on a different site in 2006 and Joe Crowley actually attacked me by name in The New Republic.   I was ecstatic.

      Who can forget the time he kissed Dubya at the SOTU.

      Reply
    102. 102.

      Jackie

      March 27, 2024 at 7:22 pm

      My dad was a very stalwart Democrat and always defended even the weakest of Democratic politicians. He wasn’t thrilled when Gore chose Lieberman as his VP candidate, but valiantly gave full support – telling me voters didn’t vote for the VP. When the Supremes gave Bush the White House, he finally quietly acknowledged that “Lieberman had probably been a mistake.” That’s the only time I ever heard him even mildly rebuke a Democrat. Later, when Lieberman got all pissy and rejected the Democratic Party after they rejected him first, dad called him a hypocrite – almost the worst name he could call someone.

      Reply
    103. 103.

      Tony Jay

      March 27, 2024 at 7:27 pm

      At its core Lieberman’s appeal to the Village was that he posed as a respected Centrist Democrat while consistently siding with the GOP to attack Democratic policies and politicians, even (especially) when it meant sabotaging a Presidential campaign he was part of.

      Now that he’s dead, they want to laud him for that without saying they’re lauding him for that. To which I say fuck’em.

      Reply
    104. 104.

      Odie Hugh Manatee

      March 27, 2024 at 7:28 pm

      Buh bye…

      Reply
    105. 105.

      tam1MI

      March 27, 2024 at 7:30 pm

      In other news, results in the Alabama race where a Democrat flipped a seat suggest that Republicans Have An Internal Polling Problem.

      As for Joe Lieberman, I’m sure his family will mourn him.  I certainly won’t.

      Reply
    106. 106.

      zhena gogolia

      March 27, 2024 at 7:33 pm

      Nil nisi bonum.

      Reply
    107. 107.

      zhena gogolia

      March 27, 2024 at 7:34 pm

      @Tony Jay: I’ll never forget him being the first to stab Bill Clinton in the back.

      Reply
    108. 108.

      David Anderson

      March 27, 2024 at 7:36 pm

      @Gin & Tonic: Not worried about connective tissue tears etc.   more worried about broken hips and femurs where muscle mass likely matters in decreasing injury odds

      Reply
    109. 109.

      hells littlest angel

      March 27, 2024 at 7:36 pm

      @Elizabelle: Oh, believe me, they did. They scrubbed mine, and all I said was that I hope there’s no Medicare in hell.

      Reply
    110. 110.

      Geminid

      March 27, 2024 at 7:38 pm

      @zhena gogolia:

      “Damn a man who doesn’t ride for the brand.”

      Reply
    111. 111.

      Tony Jay

      March 27, 2024 at 7:42 pm

      @zhena gogolia:

      Gleefully, and with venom.

      Most definately the kind of ‘Democrat’ the Party should be happy is gone.

      Reply
    112. 112.

      Dan B

      March 27, 2024 at 7:42 pm

      Lieberman voted against equal rights in the repeal of DADT.  He said that states should regulate abortion because, “After all it’s only a short ride.”  His nickname was Short Ride.  Voted for the Iraq War.  There are many more.

      I don’t believe he’ll amount to much in history.  His principles would be difficult to discern.

      Reply
    113. 113.

      Baud

      March 27, 2024 at 7:44 pm

      @Dan B:

      I thought he supported the repeal of DADT. But my memory is fuzzy.

      Reply
    114. 114.

      Ohio Mom

      March 27, 2024 at 7:45 pm

      @hells littlest angel: I took a quick look at the obituary’s comments, read a few of the funniest ones aloud to Ohio Dad, and came here. I’m sorry they are gone, I wanted to finish savoring them.

      Reply
    115. 115.

      WaterGirl

      March 27, 2024 at 7:50 pm

      @Ohio Mom: I wonder if someone who wasn’t a fan of Lieberman “forgot” to disable comments when the obituary went up.

      Reply
    116. 116.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 27, 2024 at 7:51 pm

      @Tom Levenson: He’s dead. Good.

      Reply
    117. 117.

      twbrandt

      March 27, 2024 at 7:54 pm

      I appreciate Joe Lieberman. He’s dead, and I appreciate it.

      Reply
    118. 118.

      hells littlest angel

      March 27, 2024 at 7:59 pm

      @WaterGirl: Usually they know better. No comments on Kissinger’s obit, for instance. But I think they sometimes don’t realize how despised some people are. This isn’t the first time they’ve scrubbed and closed comments.

      Reply
    119. 119.

      Steve in the ATL

      March 27, 2024 at 8:01 pm

      @debit:

      I am sure his family will miss him.

      Are there really families like this? Damn.

      Reply
    120. 120.

      karen marie

      March 27, 2024 at 8:15 pm

      @Spanky: I wouldn’t give that fuckwit one more second.  He’s wasted enough of everyone’s time.  Good riddance to bad rubbish.

      Reply
    121. 121.

      karen marie

      March 27, 2024 at 8:16 pm

      @Baud:  RFK Jr. who will now claim to be the founder of No Labels.

      Reply
    122. 122.

      Elizabelle

      March 27, 2024 at 8:16 pm

      @Ohio Mom:  You are right.  Bezos WaPost deleted the 800 plus comments.  Fuck ’em.

      Reply
    123. 123.

      sdhays

      March 27, 2024 at 8:40 pm

      @mrmoshpotato: I would have named it “Joe Lieberman Finds a Label That Suits Him”.

      Reply
    124. 124.

      Ohio Mom

      March 27, 2024 at 8:45 pm

      When my local paper, the Cincinnati Enquirer had comments, they were full of right wing nut jobs, endlessly repeating the same bumper sticker phrases (example: “We’re not a democracy, we’re a republic”).

      But the Times and Washington Post comment threads are full of smart people, continually calling the writers out on their skewed reporting and blind spots. It’s refreshing.

      Reply
    125. 125.

      Don K

      March 27, 2024 at 8:55 pm

      @kindness:

      Joe Lieberman is dead. Good.

      Reply
    126. 126.

      Tom Hamill

      March 27, 2024 at 9:15 pm

      ChatGPT, write me a Joe Leiberman obituary.  Make sure you look at both sides of the issue of his life and death, and assure me that the best outcome would be half alive, half dead.

      Reply
    127. 127.

      catclub

      March 27, 2024 at 9:25 pm

      @debit: I am sure his family will miss him.

       

      I miss my wife… but my aim is improving!

      Reply
    128. 128.

      Anonymous at Work

      March 27, 2024 at 9:27 pm

      *Looks downward*.

      He’s all yours.  Enjoy.

      Reply
    129. 129.

      Mousebumples

      March 27, 2024 at 10:29 pm

      @hells littlest angel: related… One of the best things I can say about Lieberman is that he’s better than Kissinger. But that’s a low bar to clear.

      Reply
    130. 130.

      SmallAxe

      March 27, 2024 at 11:04 pm

      He’ll make a good little dirt turnip, best I can do

      Reply
    131. 131.

      vigilhorn

      March 28, 2024 at 9:21 am

      Went out last night and fired off a bottle rocket after I heard the news. Second time this year…Kissinger was first.

      Reply
    132. 132.

      davek319

      March 28, 2024 at 10:31 am

      @Spanky: We can hope for the same karmic kiss, amirite?

      Reply
    133. 133.

      Big Fly

      March 28, 2024 at 11:01 am

      @Comrade Scrutinizer:

      I still use it occasionally — I smile slightly at the puzzled looks.

      Reply
    134. 134.

      Paul in KY

      March 28, 2024 at 11:34 am

      Mr. Lamont would have won for sure, if that scumbag hadn’t done his “Connecticut for Lieberman” crap.  I did give some money to Mr. Lamont and have never regretted it. Felt he should have gotten more help from national party.

      Reply
    135. 135.

      Paul in KY

      March 28, 2024 at 11:37 am

      @JML: I think he became more and more an ally of Likud Israel and they were generally GQP allies/buddies, so he decided to do their bidding as much as he could.

      Reply
    136. 136.

      Paul in KY

      March 28, 2024 at 11:38 am

      @Elizabelle: They will be polite.  In private, is what I would like to hear.

      Reply
    137. 137.

      Paul in KY

      March 28, 2024 at 11:39 am

      @Citizen Alan: Gotta blame VP Gore the most on that one.

      Reply
    138. 138.

      Paul in KY

      March 28, 2024 at 11:40 am

      @Kristine: And even more unctuous.

      Reply
    139. 139.

      Paul in KY

      March 28, 2024 at 11:41 am

      @Layer8Problem: When he ran against Mr. Lamont, you’ll notice that almost no one voted for the GQPer. Not many Democrats voted for Lieberman.

      Reply
    140. 140.

      Paul in KY

      March 28, 2024 at 11:44 am

      @sab: Your husband was/is a good judge of character.

      Reply

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