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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Joementum: Lying about war=OK. Lying about sex=threat to the republic
Posted by Jill | 9:50 AM

Digby unearths Joe Lieberman's pious bloviatings on the floor of the Senate during the Clinton impeachment, and notes how Joementum has changed his tune now that he smells a job in the Bush Administration coming.

Joe chastised the 60% of Americans who don't like American kids being fed into a meat grinder of a war based on lies: "It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge he'll be commander-in-chief for three more years. We undermine the president's credibility at our nation's peril."

But when it comes to lies about something Joe Lieberman has probably never gotten from Hadassah, all bets are off:

After much reflection, my feelings of disappointment and anger have not dissipated, except now these feelings have gone beyond my personal dismay to a larger, graver sense of loss for our country, a reckoning of the damage that the president's conduct has done to the proud legacy of his presidency and, ultimately, an accounting of the impact of his actions on our democracy and its moral foundations.

The implications for our country are so serious that I feel a responsibility to my constituents in Connecticut, as well as to my conscience, to voice my concerns forthrightly and publicly. And I can think of no more appropriate place to do that than on this great Senate floor.

[snip]

As Teddy Roosevelt once explained, "My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have," Roosevelt said.

Sadly, with his deception, the president may have weakened the great power and strength that he possesses, of which President Roosevelt spoke.

I know this is a concern that may of my colleagues share, which is to say that the president has hurt his credibility and therefore perhaps his chances of moving his policy agenda forward.


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