“Sen. Lieberman and I have a very open and honest working relationship,” Reid wrote in his statement. “On issues ranging from foreign policy to health care, even when we disagree, he has always been straightforward with me.”
But that apparently didn’t go far enough for Lieberman, who, like every other member of the honor-bound Senate, understands the perils of being labeled untrustworthy in a closed 100-member club.
There is a simple way to stop being labeled as untrustworthy, and that is to stop being a two-faced backstabbing prick. I’m sorry you and that jackass Marshall Wittman can’t get it through your heads, but since you have come out and basically admitted the only reason you screwed Reid was because Weiner and the liberals liked the medicare expansion too much, you are just going to have to deal with the label of “untrustworthy.”
If “untrustworthy” bothers you too much, I know a couple thousand people on a certain website who could come up with a few more choice labels for you.
valdivia
John hope the pain is not killing you and that you are resting and feeling as comfortable as you can given your injury. Is Tunch trained yet to get you some tea from the kitchen?
CDT
Dibs on “goat-fucking douchebag.”
TR
I’d like to put a claim on “preening egomaniacal assclown.”
beltane
Reid should have just gone along with common custom and called him Lieberdouche. That is his name, isn’t it?
El Cid
‘I like being untrustworthy, but I really dislike being viewed as untrustworthy. Plus, it makes it that much harder to dupe people with my untrustworthiness.’
ItAintEazy
“Bleeding, gaping asshole that shits in the milk of decency.”
bob h
Just guessing that a Brown victory in Mass. would give Joe and Ben Nelson an excuse to back away from HCR.
low-tech cyclist
I’m going with “worthless fucknugget.”
Joey Maloney
Perhaps we could compile a list and deliver it to the Senator’s office? I’m sure he’d appreciate the help.
Robin G.
@El Cid: This.
And I call “sadsack prima donna.”
scav
I’ll go long: Preening, self-indulgent, self-motivated, two-faced, whiney wind-sock.
asiangrrlMN
Last night, my best friend and I were compiling a list of people we would take out if we ever got batshitcrazy insane enough to want to kill ourselves (and take people with us. Standard disclaimer: NOT GONNA HAPPEN). Joe Lieberman is on the list. ‘Nuff said, though, I do like Droopy Dog.
kommrade reproductive vigor
I’d go with Gene Weingarten’s classic: Crap Weasel.
Napoleon
I love the Politico story. Basically Reid refuses to say the NY Times story was wrong, so what does Lieberman do, he proves to Reid again that he is a back stabbing liar by telling the Politico that Reid has told him privately the NY Times story was wrong even though there is no apparent reason he wouldn’t say that publicly if in fact it was true.
capt
“There is a simple way to stop being labeled as untrustworthy, and that is to stop being a two-faced backstabbing prick. “
That has always worked for me (when I am able) !
DanF
Senator Preenal Gland (L – Fucktardia)
horatius
Wait. This is a post about calling Lieberprick names. And you have 16 comments?
You are going out of business Mr. Cole.
BongCrosby
Jon Stewart’s “Droopy” tag works for me.
SGEW
“Mendacious Asshole” covers the bases for me.
danimal
At least George W Bush had family and economic reasons for many of his repulsive policies. Because Senator
PalpatineLieberman knows better, Joe Lieberman = Worse than Bush.Redshirt
The old classic “Loserman”
Trinity
I’m going with the tried and true ‘Lieberdouche’.
Senyordave
I have to ask:
Has anyone ever seen Joe Lieberman and the character “Willie” from Alf in the same room?
if there is karma, in his next life Joe Lieberman will be a guy who loses his job, gets very sick, and loses everything he owns because he has no insurance. And he won’t have a wife pimping for insurance companies to save his ass.
Trinity
Wait…I know it’s a tad generic but I think ‘assclown’ fits him quite well.
Lieberdouche the Amazing Assclown!
canuckistani
I’ll take “Ignorant Corrupt Pigfucker”, please.
Calming Influence
I’d go with “deceitful dick-head” in polite company, and “shifty fuck-wad” where I usually hang out.
Rick Taylor
Joe Lieberman is such an honorable principled man, he has to stab his colleagues in the back, especially those who’ve come to his aid when he’s needed it. A lesser man might put gratitude above principal, but he never can. He always feels bad afterwards though.
Chad N Freude
All of the preceding suggestions are incomplete — they omit “vindictive”.
inkadu
I wonder if Sunday’s article will bother to make a judgement on if Lieberman did renege on the deal. I doubt it.
When Lieberman ran as an independent against Democrat Ned Lamont in the 2006 Connecticut Senate primary, top Washington Democrats took to the stump to boot Lieberman from office.
Can you all remember any? Edwards is the only one I know of. The rest of the Democratic establishment voted for their good friend Joe Lieberman, including, if I’m not mistaken, the big dog himself.
Paul in KY
How bout: Santorum-sucking zioclown asswipe piece of shit traitor.
Bobby Thomson
Lying sack of shit has always worked for me.
In instances where greater precision is required, there’s always Senator Palpatine.
scarshapedstar
Wrinkled, purulent, smegma-encrusted human foreskin?
cleek
preening petulant passive-aggressive putz.
Hiram Taine
Eh, scrofulous, maggot-gagging two faced shitbird works for me..
Not to disparage any *actual* scrofulous, maggot-gagging two faced shitbirds.
And let’s not forget, he was Al Gore’s carefully chosen Vice Presidential candidate.
zeph
According to Haaretz, the Netanyahu administration was publicly hoping that health care reform would fail and deal Obama’s administration a blow before it could restart mideast “peace negotiations.” For Lieberman, attempting to screw up health care was just a party-line vote.
AxelFoley
@Trinity:
That tag works for me–Lieberdouche.
Mark
@Bobby Thomson – when I send him emails, I always call him a ‘sack of shit.’
Also, ‘Sy Ableman’ would be a worthy moniker. Sy, for those of you who don’t know, fucks your wife, tells you he’s moving in to your house and you have to move out, and then everybody acts like he’s such a great guy.
Roger Moore
I always thought that “Senator Joe Palpatine (S – Naboo)” was a good one.
debbie
Pencil dick.
bobbo
Sanctimonious prick.
West of the Cascades
Liebermoran
Cris
For some reason I read that as “a two-backed facestabbing prick,” which I like even better.
Midnight Marauder
Future AETNA Lobbyist.
Mike G
After Lieberman gunned down five Democratic senators on the floor of the chamber during a debate, Reid insisted there was “no discussion” of removing Lieberman from his committee chairmanships or expelling him from the Democratic caucus.
“Sen. Lieberman and I have a very open and honest working relationship,” Reid wrote in his statement. “On issues ranging from foreign policy to health care, even when we disagree, he has always been straightforward with me.”
“He’s with us on everything except the Iraq war and the murder of Democratic senators,” Reid added.
Cheryl from Maryland
Vindictive goat pimple
Cf Dirty Jobs to see how disgusting a goat pimple can be
fraught
“Pants on the ground”
Thadeus Horne
Aetna’s assboy.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
“A Republican”
Ruckus
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
You know, sometimes the simple straightforward truth is the best.
Ruckus
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
You know, sometimes the simple straightforward truth is the best.
mclaren
In classic Watergate parlance, the only possible comment here is [expletive deleted].