What is MMFA supporting Lieberman for?  Campaigning last year, Lieberman pledged to bring the troops home as soon as possible.  Now he wants to send more troops. And MMFA puts faith in his pledge not to switch parties.  MMFA is losing its credibility.

Perhaps Mr. Lieberman belongs on the other side of the aisle. However I think he will try to play both ends against the middle just to stick it to those who he feels abandoned him last election.

On another note Col. Roy admits that a difference needed to be made in the way business has been handled for the last six years. As to the war escalation, that was a done deal before it was even announced to the public. Fait accompli is the only way this administration can get things done. 

Tailgunner Joe is pure scum. He has one of those unigue positions in life. He can make either party dance to his music. He is personifies the absolute worst in any politician that has ever run. He SAYS he will be with democrats but look at the votes he has made. He voted with the Thug party.

 I didn't believe the dems would change everything, I was just hoping they would be better than the Thug party. But so far they are not doing anything different. Democrats are cowards pure and simple.

The Thug party is pure thuggery and nothing else.

We have nothing with either party. They will simply vote the corporation line. Tailgunner Joe has so much power now that if he wanted to take Air Force One and try to make it do barrel rolls, he could get it.

Pure scum.

im sure you were singing a different tune in 2000

Col. BuzzJet...

You are the one with the tears of a clown. Your troops, the Cons, are being investigated in Congress by both R's and D's. Don't you worry about our side of the House and Senate, you guys are on a losing streak and I don't see anything changing,sorry, more talk of war is the chatter. Whenever, your sissy-crowd doesn't get their own way, they cry to mommy and then go pick on someone smaller than them. You were probably the same(see your first post). Cry Me a River Pvt. Roy because your TOY soldiers are going down. Especially with leaders like you. Such a shame, you had PROMISE...but that is one things you guys can't keep, a simple promise.

We will get the troops home with as few casualties as possible and then you can take your marauders into the Valley of Death and die like a real soldier. And you better not get shot in the back when running away.

Dong Ha, Quang Tri Province '70-71

So why haven't the orders to remove the troops been given? All the Congress has to do is command and the President must obey. What are they waiting for? Hell to freeze over? The Dems have all gone on campaign for the next presidential election and only Kucinich is saying "End the War".

Don't kid yourselves, 2/3rds of the Dems in power are gonna vote to keep this war crime GOING....AIPAC pays the big bucks to make it so. Refusal to impeach, refusal to put forward real binding resolutions...the Dems are REFUSING to stop this madness. Instead of stopping the war being #1 on their agenda, it was minimum wage. Tells you where their priorities lie.

And all we hear from Dem supporters is "You just wait! We have the power now! You just wait!" Well, we are waiting and they haven't shown much inclination to actually stop this. And in 2008, when we're all still waiting and Americans and Iraqis are still dying, you'll all be telling us how a Democrat president will stop all this...HAH!

No more lies from Republicans, no more fantasies from Democrats. If any of you want this war crime to end, find an anti-war third party and VOTE!

All these talking head shows should be forced to have a graphic onscreen at all times that says "this is not news, this is opinion"

*sigh*  I wish we could moderate user comments on media matters akin to the slashdot.org or k5 user moderation system.   This really gets annoying when fake soldiers quickly troll a story and 50 people respond.

Mea Culpa.  I replied to the fake soldier troll.  I nevertheless wonder why the Colonel, fake or otherwise, is wasting time online when he's got a war to fight.

It's okay, I know how it can be to resist that urge, sometimes it's absolutely necessary to respond.   My complaint is largely in response to how broken the user comment section is... no moderation, and the physical layout of the page itself.   It's very narrow and with only 20 responses per page it's very easy for the fake soldier and his gang of trolls to turn the first page of discussion into nothing but manure.   

Media Matters should do something about this..   but I'm sure they're quite busy already trying to keep up with the daily barrage of trolls in the mainstream media.

When is 52% a minority? When 52% of "dumb,easily misled" Conn.voters vote for antiwar Lamont over "mainstream"Lieberman. And what is Lamont's 'reward'? Being labelled "DIVISIVE" by the commie Pinko Lib-Press..Ugly George

If Lieberman wants to change parties, he should simply resign.  He lied to CT voters, he's lied to the nation and he may even be lying to himself.  There's a lot of Liber-haters posting on a similar thread at Firedoglake.  CT Bob even provided a link to his site with a great archive of posts on Old Droopy's flip flops.  Very funny posts, but Droopy's pathetic (someone noticed he, like Joe Klein, looks a lot like the cowardly lion).  

They did not mention it because the story wasn't that he promised to caucus with the Democrats, everyone already knew that. The stroy was about his recent comments. The two were mutually exclusive, get over yourselves.

good point.  MMFA does this ALL the time.  it isnt the media's job to say "hey look he said THIS back in 199x", in fact their job is to REPORT what is going on now, not to point out contradictions.

Let's see a campaign promise is broken.  The press reports the new position without reporting the original promise, and you say the two are mutually exclusive . . . .   

Attention Media Matters: Tim Russert just inaccurately stated in his interview with Carl Levin on Meet The Press that the Democrats would lose their chairmanships should "Holy" Joe Lieberman switch parties.

Just thought I'd give you an early heads-up report. 

What's the possibility that a few Republicans might jump ship? Their party is divided and careers are in jeopardy under the Bush regime and more than likely will suffer even more in the '08 general elections. This media inflation of the Liberman position will backfire on them for sure. The American people are just about fed up with the childish slander and back biting of politicians and media personalities that are out of touch with the reality that our society is sitting on a bubble and a rebellion is moments away. The ones that have the most to lose, the wealthy and corporations, seem willing to play Russian Roulet with two bullets. It's a losing proposition no matter how much power is in which corner.

 RM Merrill

Torrington, CT. USA

Has it occurred to you that the reason LIEberman's pledge not to switch over officially to the GOP is because most people know he's lying?  LIEberman has but one purpose, having won re-election with Republican money and votes: to force Senate Democrats to suck up to him and not go too far for his liking in their attempts to stop the Bush regime in its tracks.  I guarantee you that the moment it is deemed necessary, in order to protect the regime, LIEberman will caucus with the Republicans and throw control of the Senate to them.  MSNBC has him on video refusing to rule out a future switch.