Nancy Pelosi is Pissed at Joe Lieberman

Here is what Nancy Pelosi recently said about Joe Lieberman:

You are right. Joe Lieberman has said things that are totally irresponsible when it comes to Barack Obama

Evidently she considers a man who is standing up for his beliefs instead of putting partisan politics first is acting irresponsible. ( I understand that technically Lieberman is an Independent but we all know he is a IINO. He is a democrat, that’s what McCain likes about him.)

President Obama is the candidate of change, the man who will bring us all together, the man who will work in a bi-partisan manner to save Americans from themselves. Yet how can the man who claims he will unite the country actually achieve this if his own party feels it is irresponsible for a party member to not put partisan politics ahead of his own beliefs?

The liberal rhetoric and hypocrisy is on full display here. The rhetoric of working in a bi-partisan manner is shown to be untrue by the speaker herself. Is not what Lieberman doing in his support of John McCain showing bi-partisanship? The Democrats publicly say that they want to work with Republicans yet that is exactly what Lieberman is doing and he is being shunned by Pelosi and other Democrats who are poised to punish Lieberman after the election for his indiscretion of working with a Republican in just the manner Democrats claim that they want to do.

“it will be interesting to see what the leadership in the Senate, the Democratic leadership in the Senate, does (after the election) in terms of Joe Lieberman’s chairmanship of his committee.”

There has been speculation that if Democrats bolster their Senate majority this fall, they could seek payback by stripping Lieberman of the chairmanship.

In truth what the Democrats mean when they talk about bi-partisanship is that they expect Republicans to capitulate to their every whim. That is not bi-partisanship, did the Democrats capitulate to the Republicans when the Republicans extended their majority in 2004? No, they talked about the rights of the minority and fought Republicans every step of the way. There has been no talk of the rights of the majority since the Republicans have been in the majority.

The ironic part of this is the fact that one presidential candidate has worked in a bi-partisan manner in his time in the senate and one has not worked in a bi-partisan manner in his 400 or so days in the senate. President Obama claims that he wants to work with Republicans as president but nothing in his record indicates a willingness to do so. He never has worked with them in the past. Yet John McCain has shown that not only has he worked in a bi-partisan manner, he actually prefers to work with Democrats than Republicans. (Much to my chagrin.)

Nancy Pelosi has shown us that she is more interested in the good of the party than the rhetoric that President Obama has been spewing. Joe Lieberman has been practicing the politics that President Obama has been touting and he is in danger of losing his committee chairmanship because the Democrats have shown us that while they talk a good game they have no intention of backing up their promises.