--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > >> If there is anyone who is a terrorist in the United States > >> then it has to be Joe Lieberman. > > > > Don't be silly. Joe Lieberman is an angry old man > > whose time passed him by long ago and who will now > > do anything he can to attract the attention he > > craves so desperately. He will even threaten a > > filibuster -- which, after all, is just talking > > because one can, to no one because no one is > > listening, for no other reason than to talk, talk, > > talk, and to keep others from saying anything more > > interesting or useful.
Think anyone will point out to Barry that the old Jimmy Stewart-style talk-till-you-drop kind of filibuster he's imagining for Lieberman hasn't been used in decades? It's a fossil. Sorta like Barry. ;-) In other words, he is the > > political counterpart of Judy Stein. :-) > > I don't know about silly but I was not original. No, you weren't. It's a common meme now on the left. The reference is to the thousands of people who are said to die every year because of how f*cked up our health care/insurance system is. Thom Hartmann called > Lieberman a terrorist yesterday and I think he picked it > up from other commentators. But no one here has pointed > out of the irony of it: Lieberman is Chairman and former > Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental > Affairs Committee, I think everyone's aware of this, Bhairitu. It's why the "terrorist" meme has caught on so fast.
