Bipartisanship joementum Style: Bush Supports Lieberman

So Bush supports Lieberman:

Bush fixin' to support Lieberman? More shortly.

In this morning's press briefing, Tony Snow said President Bush would not endorse Alan Schlesinger (R-CT) the Republican nominee in the race.

Let's see, the official Republican nominee is out (and so are Sonja Henie and Danny Noonan, Caddyshack reference), so I guess Bush will take Joe Mentum. As well he should. Lieberman has been there for Bush in all the tough spots. Now that Joe is in a tough spot, "bipartisanship" demands Bush return the favor. More.

Speaking of bipartisanship, there was a howler of an article from Dan Balz yesterday. Get this:

Will Lieberman's campaign prove to be a forerunner for a message of civility and bipartisanship that emerges nationally in 2008, or simply be remembered as an obsolete refrain from a politician living in an idealized past and that serves only to deepen partisan divisions?

Bwahahahahahahahahaha. Even Balz couldn't sustain that one. 5 grafs later he writes:

Beyond that, the opening stage of his campaign has delivered a decidedly mixed message. Lieberman's first post-primary television ad promises an era of "unity and purpose." His first post-primary campaign appearance featured a slashing attack on Lamont in which he claimed that success by his rival in November would be "taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England."

But Balz could not escape the GroupThink. Back to buying the "civil Joe" bullshit:

Lieberman long has preached the politics of civility and calm rhetoric, but he appears to be ready to set that history aside to defeat Lamont in November. It was his willingness to work with and support Bush on the Iraq war that helped bring about his loss in the primary to a political neophyte who ran as an opponent of the war and a critic of Lieberman's repeated support for the president.

What history? The only people Joe is civil to are George Bush, Dick Cheney, Sean Hannity and other  extreme Republicans. Insults and the New McCarthyism is all Joe has ever offered Democrats:

It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril.

And Joe and his campaign have been race baiting. John Conyers noticed:

I am already concerned that Senator Lieberman's independent bid seems destined to divide Democrats in the most insidious ways. His supporters have called Ned Lamont an "Al Sharpton Democrat" and this morning Lieberman stated on the Today Show that he was committed "to bringing the Democratic Party back from the extreme, back from Ned Lamont and Maxine Waters." It is not lost on me that both of these appeals seem designed to peel off support for Mr. Lamont by highlighting his support from prominent African Americans. This type of rhetoric degrades the political process and should not be tolerated.

I guess Dan Balz missed that one. And this smear from his closest advisor Dan Gerstein:

Mr. Lieberman's supporters have come to suggest that much of the burgeoning liberal opposition to his candidacy is motivated by anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment. Mr. Gerstein says he has detected what he calls a "growing strain of anti-Semitism on the far left," which he believes is in part fueling the strident opposition to Mr. Lieberman.

Unlike Mr. Balz and the Beltway Gasbags, I can say what Joe Lieberman  is and always has been - an unscrupulous, disloyal, bootlicking, craven, two faced, unprincipled skunk. I remember what he has said. I remember what he has done.

Civil? My ass. Bipartisan? If enabling Republicans at every turn is bipartisan, then sure. That is what it means in DC I know.

But out in the actual country, we know better. The gig is up. For Lieberman AND for the DC Gasbags. They better wake up.