Lieberman Tries To Undo The Political Damage

Joe Lieberman spent the week after the August 8 primary doing his best Dick Cheney imitation:

Stephanopoulos: "Senator Lieberman thinks that your [Feingold's] approach will strengthen the terrorists and it's a victory for terrorists. . . .

The GOP appreciated it:

"It would be far better for Republicans if Joe Lieberman won than Lamont," Mr. [Ari] Fleischer continued. . . .  [W]hat kind of message would it send if a strong defense, pro-Iraq senator won in this environment? It would prove you can be for what George W. Bush is doing in Iraq and still win, even in the Northeast."

Apparently Joe is discovering that he may not have made the wisest political moves that week. He is now trying to walk it back. More.

Here comes Flip-Flopper Joe:

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, facing continued criticism from many in the Democratic Party because of his support for the war in Iraq, leveled his most pointed criticism yet at the Pentagon during a television interview on Sunday, calling for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

. . . "I think it's still time for new leadership at the Pentagon," Mr. Lieberman said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "With all respect to Don Rumsfeld, who has done a grueling job for six years, we would benefit from new leadership to work with our military in Iraq."

. . . Mr. Lieberman has repeatedly criticized calls by Mr. Lamont and other Democrats for a timeline for troop withdrawal. On Sunday, he said that the situation in Iraq had worsened in the past six months but that setting a deadline would be a "disaster."

. . . While he stands by his vote to authorize the war in Iraq, in recent weeks he has sought to clarify his views, saying he has been critical all along of the Bush administration's handling of the war.

Riiight Joe. "Critical all along?" Liar:

[LIEBERMAN, 12/05]: Does America have a good plan for doing this, a strategy for victory in Iraq? Yes we do. And it is important to make it clear to the American people that the plan has not remained stubbornly still but has changed over the years. Mistakes, some of them big, were made after Saddam was removed, and no one who supports the war should hesitate to admit that; but we have learned from those mistakes and, in characteristic American fashion, from what has worked and not worked on the ground. The administration's recent use of the banner "clear, hold and build" accurately describes the strategy as I saw it being implemented last week.

Not only is Joe a craven Bush bootlicker, he is a two faced, lying cowardly Bush bootlicker.

Run to Karl Joe and see what he can think of for you - we ain't buying your bullshit.