Brown-eyed Lieberman

What a disgrace.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, the only Democrat to endorse President Bush’s new plan for Iraq, has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.

I could quote at length, but follow the link for the full horror.

All it takes is one quick reach-around from preznit this week and he's more than satisfied with his subservient role. Trouble is, he's not the one really getting fucked.

Lieberman blamed the government's failure with Katrina on long-term neglect of duties by officials, lack of realization that Katrina was a catastrophe before it hit, poor decisions and absence of effective leadership.

"These failures of leadership and government cost lives and multiplied the anguish of the storm's survivors," Lieberman said.

He should know from failures of leadership and government.

Oh, and by the way, check out Harry Reid's response on NPR last night regarding Bush's call for a Lieberman-led "bipartisan working group that will help us come together across party lines to win the war on terror."

That is so — pick a word that isn't too argumentative — we have bipartisan organizations looking at this right now. The hearing that you're talking about, chaired by Biden and [Richard] Luger [(R-IN)], good friends, they work together, one a Democrat and one a Republican. That's a bipartisan committee, it's called the Foreign Relations Committee. Standing by is the Armed Forces Committee, another bipartisan committee, chaired by [Carl] Levin [(D-MI)], and the ranking member on that is [John] McCain [(R-AZ)]. That's about as bipartisan as you can get. What is the president trying to do? What is this all about? I mean, we had a bipartisan group called the Iraq Study Group. They told the president what they thought should be done; he's ignored every provision they've made. Every one. So why does he need something… now he's asking for the legislative branch of government, a separate branch of government from his executive branch of government, to give him some other direction. He has all the directions that he needs. He just refuses to listen to what people are telling him.

Give 'em hell, Harry. And dump Lieberman from his leadership position on Homeland Security, while you're at it.