In case you were wondering (and you probably weren’t) what Joe Lieberman is doing these days, here’s an update courtesy of Down With Tyranny:
Wall Street banksters fund No Labels to destroy Social Security, Medicare and other social services and they have decided on Lieberman and Huntsman as their new frontmen. Reactionary politics is the name of their game and the two of them have been spotted recently lurking around Capitol Hill, shopping their ideas to lawmakers– primarily Republicans and New Dems– and to their natural allies on K Street, the corporate lobbyists. The organization founded by Eric Kingson, Social Security Works is sounding the alarm and demanding that Lieberman and Huntsman stand down. Social Security Works points out that that in the midst of a $7.7 trillion retirement security crisis and with two-thirds of retirees relying on Social Security for the majority of their income, now is not the time to be cutting Americans’ hard earned benefits. Instead, as Kingson, a congressional candidate in Syracuse, and other progressives explain as part of their campaigns, we should be expanding Social Security benefits for millions of Americans. Social Security Works:
The American people are united in our support of protecting and expanding Social Security– the most successful social insurance program in our country’s history. And right now, a majority of Democrats in Congress support our efforts. We cannot allow Lieberman and Huntsman to successfully flip Congressional Democrats– and worse yet, the next president– on the future of Social Security.
All we need in order to strengthen Social Security is to finally ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share. Right now, individuals pay into Social Security on the first $118,500 of their income. But if wealthier individuals pay in on ALL of their income, we will be able to expand the benefits of millions of Americans and have enough left to extend the lifespan of the Social Security trust fund.
“No Labels” is Lieberman’s faux “bi-partisan” propaganda outfit, dedicating to comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted. It’s his way of cashing in on his former office by soaking money from rich people to advance their “bi-partisan” destroy the middle class agenda. It is truly amazing how much rich people will spend to further impoverish the rest of us, even when they pay almost nothing toward the benefit in question. Further proof that their overriding belief is that it is not enough that they succeed, everyone else must fail.
We here in Connecticut are well rid of Lieberman. Would that there were some legal method that could be used to remove rejected politicians from the political process entirely. One of the things I am most proud of having done in my life is cast a vote at the 2006 Connecticut State Convention for Ned Lamont. That began the process of cleansing Lieberman from our party. Unfortunately, there are many more Liebermans in the party, and more being recruited all the time. In that vein, I recommend Down with Tyranny as a great place to keep tabs on the machinations of that portion of our party that are trying to remake the party in Lieberman’s image.
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