It is perfectly fine to speak ill of the dead if the dead were assholes. Go hog wild. Fuck knows we've got enough bullshit to deal with in re living assholes working relentlessly to make life shitty for as many people as possible, we fucking well get to celebrate when there's one less of them.
The Daily Beast, Paul Begala 2009: "Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is identified as (I-CT). But the 'I' does not stand for 'Independent.' It stands for 'Insurance Industry.'
Begala says Lieberman opposed reform in 1993 and 1994 for the same reasons he opposes it now: he receives significant support from the insurance companies.
Ex-US-Senator Lieberman im Alter von 82 Jahren gestorben
Joe Lieberman war der erste jüdische Kandidat für den Posten des US-Vizepräsidenten. Nun ist der Demokrat im Alter von 82 Jahren gestorben. Er galt als außenpolitischer Hardliner, vertrat aber gleichzeitig liberal-soziale Ansichten.
#JoeLieberman singlehandedly blocked Obama’s paltry effort to add a “public option” to the already watered-down and insurance-co-friendly ACA (Obamacare) at the behest of his donors from the Great State of Cigna (Connecticut).
Then when he was successfully primaried by a popular Democrat (Ned Lamont) he ran as an independent and kept his Senate seat with Republicans’ help.
He was the Joe Manchin of his day. A smug quisling “centrist” corpocratic asshole.
#JosephLieberman, the doggedly independent 4-term #US#senator from #Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for VP in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died March 27 in NYC. He was 82.
The cause was complications from a fall, his family said in a statement.
His full-throated support of the 2003 invasion of #Iraq & the increasingly unpopular #war that followed doomed #JoeLieberman’s bid for the Democratic presidential nom in 2004 & led to his rejection by #Connecticut#Democrats when he sought his 4th #Senate term in 2006. He kept his seat by running that Nov as an #independent candidate & attracting substantial support from #Republican & unaffiliated voters.
“I have not always fit comfortably into conventional political boxes,” #JoeLieberman said near the end of his #Senate career, an understatement that tiptoed around the anger his maverick ways stoked among many liberals.
His transition from #AlGore’s running mate in 2000 on the Democratic ticket to high-profile cheerleader for #JohnMcCain 8 yrs later was a turnaround unmatched in recent American politics.
…In Washington, #JoeLieberman became known as a serious-minded legislator adept at working w/colleagues on both sides of the aisle. One of his earliest achievements was having a leadership role in the bipartisan amendment in 1990 of the #CleanAirAct, beefing up federal #regulation of #pollutants.
He was also proud of bipartisan govt changes he helped enact after the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, most prominently the creation of the #DHS & the restructuring of the #intelligence community.
#JoeLieberman generally voted w/his party (#Democrats), but he sided w/ #Republicans on cutting the capital gains tax, vouchers for parents to send their children to private schools, & placing restrictions on consumer lawsuits against corps, the latter of special interest to #Connecticut’s large #insurance companies.
His willingness to buck his party put him at odds w/teachers, trial lawyers & other powerful Dem constituencies. But it gave him influence w/in the increasingly #polarized#Senate….
…in #JoeLieberman’s 2012 farewell #Senate speech. “The greatest obstacle I see standing between us & the brighter American future we all want is right here in Washington,” he told colleagues. “It is the #partisan#polarization of our #politics which prevents us from making the principled compromises on which #progress in a #democracy depends.”
[just take a look at the House of Representatives for confirmation. Not that I’d go along w/any of House Republicans inane performative policies.]