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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

War Lieberman Wants to Use Social Security and Medicare to Pay for the War on Terror

Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:55 PM

This past April, right-wing war hawk John Bolton suggested during an interview on Fox News that the United States should cut Social Security and Medicare to finance the defense budget.

During debate over the debt deal today on the Senate floor, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) appeared to endorse this call. Lieberman explained that he is working with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) on a Social Security spending reduction plan and that “we can’t protect these entitlements and also have the national defense…to protect us…with Islamist extremists”

I'm sure Anders Behring Breivik would agree with you on this one. And I'm sure the kids he shot and killed would not, because, as Pam Geller recently pointed out, they were being trained to be anti-Israel and the “future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole.” Also, your plan is assured success because the current president is looking for more and more "comprises." As one columnist put it: This president does not want to lead, he wants to be loved.

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Lieberman should just start wearing the Emperor's robes to senate already.

Posted by rejemy on August 2, 2011 at 1:15 PM

The military industrial complex won't stop till it has every, single last dime. Eisenhower must have turned in his grave.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBR…

Posted by biffp on August 2, 2011 at 1:19 PM

Hey Charles,

Liberman's plan is idiotic (The US needs to cut all spending, including defence) but WTF does it have to do with the Norway shooting?

Nothing?

Are you just using a tragedy for your own purposes?

Come on Charles you can tell us the truth.

Posted by Cerne on August 2, 2011 at 1:22 PM

@3, not nothing. geller nuts. lieberman nuts. Breivik nuts.

Posted by Charles Mudede on August 2, 2011 at 1:29 PM

@3: "WTF does it have to do with the Norway shooting?"

Mudede haters need to learn how to read, really. I'm not even a huge fan but your arguments against him all indicate you skim his post and respond immediately.

Posted by undead ayn rand on August 2, 2011 at 1:37 PM

Mudede nuts.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on August 2, 2011 at 1:39 PM

Defense spending is a monster that, unchecked, will subsume all other priorities. Even the Tea Party people think defense spending is sacrosanct; they like to use their made-up "original intent" arguments ("I can read James Madison's mind, and he was an all-knowing, all-seeing god!") to explain why defense and law enforcement are the only things the federal government should be doing.

They see no irony in calling for smaller, less-intrusive federal government that rules through a militarized police state.

Posted by Proteus on August 2, 2011 at 1:44 PM

Charles: Obama is leading. Very much so. He's just not leading in the manner and direction you wish he would.

Posted by schmacky on August 2, 2011 at 1:47 PM

Lieberman should know better.

National strength includes the credibility of our system in the eyes of our own people as well as the credibility of our deterrent in the eyes of others abroad.

National security includes schools for our children as well as silos for our missiles.

It includes the health of our families as much as the size of our bombs, the safety of our streets, and the condition of our cities, and not just the engines of war.

If we some day choke on the pollution of our own air, there will be little consolation in leaving behind a dying continent ringed with steel.

So while protecting ourselves abroad, let us form a more perfect union here at home. And this is the time for that task.

Sen. George McGovern, nomination acceptance speech, 1972.

Posted by Laurence Ballard

on August 2, 2011 at 1:50 PM

Well it's not like Lieberman gets elected with Social Security PAC money, he gets elected with military contractor money, just look at his biggest donors. If only the poor could afford to buy senators, how different things would be.

Posted by OuterCow on August 2, 2011 at 1:58 PM

This country is losing it's collective mind. Leading the parade is the right wing Tea Bagging shit bags.

Posted by Vince on August 2, 2011 at 1:58 PM

I can't believe this tool was almost our Vice President. When will he go away?

Posted by Mattini on August 2, 2011 at 2:06 PM

Who wants to bet LIEberdouche will be hired as a fox news "commentator" or "analyst" upon his retirement from the senate a year and a half from now? Or will he head up some center-right circle jerk tank?

Posted by Vadt on August 2, 2011 at 2:15 PM

more than the rest of the planet combined isn't enough to fight off jihadis? THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA.

Posted by Max Solomon on August 2, 2011 at 2:16 PM

Oh, and this shows Lieberman is desperate to save Israel from internal collapse. He has no allegiance to this country and he would gladly steal from the elderly Americans to finance Israeli wars of stupidity.

Posted by Vince on August 2, 2011 at 2:34 PM

@13 You can't get odds on that bet. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (J-IS) will be the token Fox News 'liberal', giving them that 'fair & balance' thing they always talk about. They probably already have a show planned for him, with AIPAC as the primary, but silent, sponsor.
.....And then he'll sell them out.

Posted by Sir Vic on August 2, 2011 at 2:38 PM

These quotes should be plastered in billboards/posters/flyers/etc all over the country and in direct line of sight of people who rely/will rely on Social Security and Medicare.

Posted by Simone on August 2, 2011 at 6:53 PM