Comments on: Joe’s Byline

By: Rhod

Rhod — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:32:36 +0000

Here in Connecticut we also had Lowell Weicker, Independent Jackass Senator.

By: Dick Stanley

Dick Stanley — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:58:49 +0000

JL explained it this way to Tim Russert, according to Nicole Stockdale at the Dallas Morning News:

MR. RUSSERT: So you’ll be Senator Joe Lieberman, I/D, Connecticut.

SEN. LIEBERMAN: Yeah, we checked with history and actually in the late 70s Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia listed himself as an Independent Democrat. You got to go back to the mid-19th century to find the last Independent Democrat.

Some of Stockdale’s commenters are not impressed:

http://nstockdale.blogspot.com/2006/11/lieberman-id-conn.html

By: WichitaBoy

WichitaBoy — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:33:47 +0000

Joe’s byline? I guess some people never learn.

By: Rhod

Rhod — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:29:58 +0000

Fine, but let’s hope we don’t have any Westmorelands at Brass Row. It’s beginning to look that way.

By: exmaple

exmaple — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:19:24 +0000

“In Baghdad and Ramadi, I found that it was the American colonels, even more than the generals, who were asking for more troops.”

Naturally, since the generals would be fired if they voiced that concern, as some did in 2003.

Rumsfeld’s policy even to the end, his farewell memo saying “go minimalist.”

By: Lem

Lem — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:03:31 +0000

Sending more troops will be as unpalatable as the Nixon pardon.
But in the long term, same as the pardon, sending the troops will turn out to the right call.