Joe Lieberman: Bipartisan or Partisan?

"I think it's time for somebody to break through and say, 'Hey, let's cut out the partisan nonsense'," says Joe Lieberman.

Yes, my fellow Americans, Joe "partisan behavior is bad" Lieberman wants to be a senator for another six years so he can help bring our country together. After all, our nation is being pulled apart by partisan politicians everywhere. Politicians who only know how to demonize each other are bad for our country. They distort reality and prevent anything constructive from getting done.

Joe Lieberman knows that. And Joe Lieberman isn't one of them.

Oh???

At Lieberman's first public event since losing Tuesday's primary, the AP reports that Joe seized on the terror plot in Britain to criticize Lamont's opposition to the war in Iraq.

''I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -- more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet Communists we fought during the long Cold War,'' Lieberman said.

''If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England. It will strengthen them and they will strike again.''

Wow, Joe. You mean if Ned Lamont is elected that will "strengthen...the enemy that faces us...and they will strike us again"?

Why that's exactly the line of attack the Bush administration rolled out today!

You say you want to stop the "partisan nonsense", Joe. But then the first chance you get you engage in the most partisan form of politics there is: the Politics of Fear. The Politics of Claiming Your Opponent Will Harm America. Shame on you, Joe Lieberman!

You say you're bipartisan. But you're really as partisan as the Bush administration: possibly the most partisan administration in our nation's history. You act like you're a builder. But you're really a destroyer.

But here's the silver lining in the behavior you exhibited today. By once again aligning yourself with the Bush administration's actions, you've shown us what you should really do between now and November.

You, Joe Lieberman, should run as the Republican candidate against Democrat Ned Lamont.

This would be an honest campaign. Mano a mano. True colors against true colors.

But first, be honest with us, Joe...and with yourself. Stop saying your against partisan politics, when we all know you're really for it...except that you're against it when you're not the one being partisan.

Hmm...you're against it except when you're for it. Where have I heard words like that before?

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