Greenwich DTC Votes to Censure and Repudiate Joe Lieberman

by: thomashooker

Fri Nov 21, 2008 at 15:39:45 PM EST

"publicly censure and repudiate the words and actions of Joe Lieberman and to ask that he resign from the Democratic Party of the state of Connecticut."  

This writer urged members to remember that it is sometimes up to the grass roots to guide our leaders, rather than the other way around.  And I urged the members to remember that it was Greenwich's own Ned Lamont who sparked the Democratic Party's revival in 2006 that culminated in Barack Obama's victory and the booting out of Fairfield County's faux-moderate Republican Chris Shays.  And I reminded members that Lieberman not only refused to endorse Greenwich's Jim Himes, but actually praised Shays.  Debunking Lieberman's own spin that he was guilty only of making some statements "in the heat of the campaign" that he regretted, some recalled that Lieberman ran for both vice-president and senate in 2000, which, winning the former, would have resulted in the Republican governor's naming a Republican to his seat.  

Jim Amman, who supported Lieberman even during the general election, sat quietly in the front row as we raked Lieberman over the coals.

Frankly, President-elect Obama is making a mistake in extending an olive branch to Lieberman.  Someone like Lieberman will never do the right thing, he can never be trusted, and restoring him to a leadership position is asking for trouble.  

I urge every other Connecticut DTC to stand up against Lieberman, pass the petition to censure Lieberman and demand that he resigns from the party.  Harry Reid and his fellow Senate Democrats were just plain wrong to pander once again to Lieberman.  We Nutmeggers do not have to knuckle under like that.  We know Lieberman only too well, and we know that it is time to call him the disgrace that he is, not to reward him for his dishonesty and disloyalty.