The Grand Master of Political Gamesmanship and Grandstanding

Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain

Re: Lieberman subpoenas Ft. Hood records – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room, By J. Taylor Rushing and Roxana Tiron – 04/19/10 08:27 PM ET

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Monday issued the first congressional subpoena of the Obama administration.

…He has accused the administration of stalling a congressional probe into the November shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, saying the departments of Defense and Justice have turned down four requests for documents over the course of five months.

Last week Lieberman said he would take the White House to court over the issue of whether to share information about the murders, allegedly committed by Maj. Nidal Hasan.

We tried to tell Obama and Reid right after the election to fire Lieberman because of his endorsement of McCain. They didn’t listen. Now he is in the news again. We all know that he is nothing but a ham and a glory hound, but during the health care reform debate he hurt many Americans with his right-wing opposition to the public option. Him and Olympia Snow are in cahoots to try to undermine the investigation and prosecution of Hasan by forcing the government and the Defense Department into handing over evidence before the investigation is finished. The question I have is why are these Republicans after this information? Since when has a Congressional probe shown enough weight to sway the Pentagon or the White House?

The answer is that the right wing freak show that is small in numbers but has dominated the news lately, is demanding that an investigation be made into Hasan’s ties to terrorism. This would normally be something the military investigators would naturally do, but Lieberman has to shore up his right-wing support by grandstanding the issue.

Hasan, a Muslim, has allegedly had contacts with Islam clerics. That’s it. That is the equivalent to a christian who is troubled wanting to talk to his preacher.

Lieberman has described the murders as a potential act of terrorism because Hasan had been in contact with Islamic clerics and may have acted out of opposition to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Islamophobia.

The right wing is demanding a Congressional probe because they hope that they will have another reason to hate Islam. There have been many folks act out opposition to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Actually it is wrong to call what we did in Iraq a “war”. That ended when the soldiers pulled down the statue back in 2003. From 2003 to the present we have illegally occupied a foreign country. It was an “occupation”, not a war. If he can be called a terrorist because he was pissed off at the occupation of Iraq, then there are many of us guilty of that. He shot those people because he went batshit crazy. The same thing happened with the guy who flew his plane into the IRS building in Texas. He went batshit crazy over having to pay  less taxes than ever before. We do, you know, pay less taxes. Is anyone calling that guy a domestic terrorist? HELL NO! He was Anglo-Saxon! He was an American white guy with a family. He couldn’t possibly be a terrorist.

I just hope that the good people of Connecticut can vote this idiot Leiberman out of office this time. They tried last time but Lieberman got tons of support from the right.

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