The Role of Joseph Lieberman
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- 2/16 Lieberman signs books in West Hartford
and at Uconn
- Book review by Phil Marshall, 14 February 2000. Senator
Joseph Lieberman, a staunch supporter of the sanctions
which starve thousands of Iraqi civilians each month and a
vocal advocate of
morality
will be holding book
signing ceremonies this Wednesday. Lieberman discusses in
a rather shallow manner some of the pressing issues of
today. We are all in jeopardy abroad for a wild west
approach to foreign affairs. He admittedly chose to run
for the U.S. Senate and then proceeded to learn the
issues.
- Americans United calls on Lieberman to step
down as chairman of Center for Jewish and Christian values
- Americans United for Separation of Church and State
press release, 20 August 2000. Lieberman serves as
honorary chairman of the Fellowship's Center for
Jewish and Christian Values, a right-wing fundamentalist
organization that would impose rigid orthodoxy on all
Americans.
- Lieberman Waxes Nostalgic for Good Old Days
of Broadcasting
- By Dana Calvo, The Los Angeles Times, 20
September 2000. Lieberman's Catskills humor plays well
to crowds on the campaign trail, but his moralistic
scoldings have made Hollywood uneasy. It is ironic in that
television was the basis of his education and the axis of
his life.
- Lieberman Votes for
HimselfTwice
- By Brigitte Greenberg, AP, 7 November 2000. Lieberman,
the Democratic vice presidential candidate, ran
simultaneously for a third term to the Senate, a position
he could not hold as vice president. Surveys suggest his
personal religious faith not a factor. Nevertheless,
Lieberman readily admits being superstitions.
- Lieberman praises
New Spiritual
Awakening,
reaffirms support for faith-based
legislation
- American Atheists, 2 March 2001. Possible
2004 Prez Candidate Says Nation of Islam, Moonies Should
Be Eligible For Taxpayer Funding Of Religion-Tainted
Social Programs.
- Lieberman crafting revised faith-based
funding bill: A coming liberal setout on the religion tax in
America?
- American Atheist, 23 July 2001. Lieberman
is crafting new legislation to increase federal funds for
religion-based charitable groups.
I've always
believed that religion is a source of unity in America,
not division.
Lieberman chases the God issue
in
hopes of breaking the Republican monopoly on values
as a campaign issue.
- Lieberman faith-based bill may be
Bush's
best hope
- American Atheists, 4 September 2001. The
fate of President Bush's plan to subsidize religious
groups operating social programs may rest with Senator
Joseph Lieberman. Critics worry that religion will be used
by churches as a criteria in hiring and other practices,
which is tantamount to government-funded
discrimination. Lieberman working on a version of the bill
that will evade the Constitutional challenges.
- Opportunist Dems Call for War on
Iraq
- The Village Voice, [23 November
2001]. Capitol Hill's loudest voice for bombing Iraq
is Senator Joe Lieberman. He said that if we give Hussein
a chance and don't pre-emtively defeat him, he will
truly attack us before long.
- An Organization on the Lookout for
Patriotic Incorrectness
- By Emily Eakin, 25 November 2001. Extracts from its
website shows the American Council of Trustees and Alumni
(ACTA) was co-founded by Joseph Lieberman, who currently
serves on its National Council. An article shows that ACTA
is a right wing organization that attacks academic freedom
and promotes a jingoistic curriculum, using McCarthy-like
tactics.
- Lieberman—All should pay for repairs,
upkeep of ‘historic’ churches—program could
cost millions
- American Atheists, 19 December
2001. Historic preservation a front for Libermanm's
scheme to privatize public services. This despite the
First Admendment to the Constitution which would forbid
this ploy.
- Joe ‘McCarthy’
Lieberman?
- The Hartford Advocate, 20 December
2001. Lieberman, who sits on the advistory board of the
American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), which
released a report that criticizes universities for
evidence of anti-Americanism during the current war in
Afghanistan, may be remembered as the Censorship
King.
- Lieberman Wades Into Florida's
Discontent: Sting of 2000 Election Could Help Him In
2004
- By David Lightman, The Hartford Courant, 22
January 2002. Lieberman opportunistically appeals to
Black frustrations in order to shore up a possible
presidential bid in 2004. When asked about his
controversial 1995 view questioning affirmative action, he
claimed he is only against quotas. Protest signs saying
that Martin Luther King would not have approved of
Lieberman's eagerness to use the military with its
disproportionately black ranks.
- Compromise reached on faith-based funding
scheme—Sandorum, Lieberman run point for public subsidies
for religion
- American Atheists, 7 February
2002. Lieberman helped forge a compromise that would
privatize governement services, but avoid violating the
Constitution. It relies on back-door funding by giving
public monies to for-profit corporations instead. This
CARE bill is littered with objectionable and
unconstitutional provisions.
- Above the Patriotic Din
- By Ruth Conniff, The Progressive, February
2002. Leading the pack of Bush supporters in Congress is
Senator Joe Lieberman. Lieberman is leading a hostile
campaign against some Arab countries. Among Democrats he
is the biggest hawk on the block.
- Taking Issue With Lieberman's Mideast
Stand
- Letter to the The Hartford Courant, from
David L. Silk, Stonington, 18 April 2002. Lieberman
blasted President Bush for demanding Israeli Prime
Minister Sharon pull back his troops. While passionately
condemning the Palestinians and leading the call for
another U.S. invasion of Iraq, Sen. Lieberman doesn't
criticize Israel or the accused war criminal now leading
that country. Can anyone imagine President Lieberman
mediating impartially in the Middle East?
- Taking Issue With Lieberman's Mideast
Stand
- Letter to the Hartford Courant, from
Justine McCabe, 18 April 2002. If the Lieberman standard
were to prevail in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, even
more of my hard-earned tax money would be spent by an
American-armed and aid-dependent Israel to massacre more
innocent Palestinian civilians, to demolish more of their
homes and civil society, and to commit more violations of
the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the protection of
civilian persons in time of war.
- Senate Unlikely To Pass Pro-Israel
Gesture
- By David Lightman, The Hartford Courant, 19
April 2002. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., has been
pushing a resolution or some tougher measure that would
put the Senate on record in support of Israel. Three main
reasons for senatorial reluctance to make such a view
official. He sharply criticized the White House's
demand that Israel withdraw its troops from the West
Bank.
- Helms and Lieberman—brothers under
the sun in behalf of imperialism, racism and reaction
- By Dave Silver, May 2002. One of the most virulently
reactionary and racist US Senators, Jesse Helms, has
joined forces with Senator Joe Lieberman to co-sponsor
legislation that would subvert Cuba from within. Both
Senators are close to the Christian Right, both are for
increased military spending, both supported the Gulf War
Resolution co-sponsored by Lieberman, both advocate
support for Taiwan and both want to see social services
slashed. Both support the draconian and Democratic
orchestrated
Anti-terrorist and Effective Death Penalty
Act
which denies habeas corpus rights to defendants
and serves to increase the profits of the expanding
Prison-Industrial Complex.
- Security Agency, Yes, but Whose
Version?
- By David Firestone, The New York Times, 4
August 2002. In pushing for the Homeland Security Bill,
Lieberman finds himself caught between Bush's fascist
program and Democratic objections to it. When it comes to
the attack on labor, Mr. Lieberman and other Democrats
loyal to labor will have to decide how high a price to pay
to recoup their investment in a reorganized
government.
- Lieberman Says He Supports Bush on Iraq:
Warns of threat posed by Iraq's ‘rogue
regime’
- U.S. Embassy, Pubic Affairs section, Brussels, 16
September 2002. Lieberman's role in the pushing for
war, and unquestioning support for Bush's attempt to
justify a war against Iraq. U.S. should launch a
preemptive strike despite the U.N. He brags that in 1997
and 1998 he supported the the plan to interfere in
Iraq's internal affairs. He is
grateful
for
Bush' propaganda campaign.
- Carte Blanche: Congress capitulates to
Bush's call for war
- By Doug Ireland, In These Times, 11 October
2002. Lieberman raced to the White House to stand by Dubya
to announce their co-sponsorship of the blank check for
Dubya to declare war on Iraq whenever he felt like
it. This deal with Bush guaranteed that Iraq will continue
to dominate the news right through Election Day and suck
the oxygen out of the bread-and-butter issues favored by
Democrats.
- Of Rising And Stalling Careers
- By Stan Simpson, The Hartford Courant, 18
November 2002. Lieberman's presidential ambitions and
his sliding popularity. Roland as potential opponent.
- ‘Democrat’ Isn't A Dirty
Word
- By Denis Horgan, The Hartford Courant, 15
January 2003.
Democrat
isn't a word Lieberman
uses much about himself. The Democratic tradition has been
pretty good for those who need help and cannot fight
alone. Joe Lieberman has done well as a Democrat, and
people have done well with him as a Democrat. It has been
a good mix and it is puzzling that he doesn't claim it
as a true and enduring virtue.
- Lieberman Moves to Reassure Jewish
Leaders
- By Dan Balz and Alan Cooperman, Washington
Post, Thursday 16 January 2003. Lieberman reassures
American Jewish leaders that his trip to the Near East to
improve his credibility in foreign affairs as presidential
candidate was not a slackening in his support for a strong
pro-Israel policy. He brags of being rude to Arafat. His
unquestioning support for Bush. The Jewish community's
discomfort with Lieberman's religiosity.
- Big Business's Favorite Senator East of
the Mississippi: Lieberman and the Secret Chamber
- By Ralph Nader, Counterpunch, 4 August
2006. In supporting Senator Lieberman, the Chamber of
Commerce wrote that “his cumulative voting score
with the Chamber is the highest of any Democratic Senator
in the Northeast.”
- The Ghosts of Lieberman's Past
- By Ralph Nader, Counterpoint, 5–6
August 2006. Unyielding support for Bush and the war is
the albatross around Mr. Lieberman's
neck. Lieberman's refusal to resign his Senate seat
when he was nominated to be Gore's vice-president and
allow a Connecticut Senate election which Democrat
Attorney General Michael Blumenthal would have easily
won. Lieberman has done little more than lift a finger for
other Democrats challenging Republican incumbents.