Friday, January 22, 2010

A note on Lieberman, call me anti-semetic, like calling me gay, I am not, so I don't care.

A lot has been made of Lieberman being the Aetna Senator and why not, he surely knows where his toast is buttered. But above all Lieberman is all about Lieberman or the Likud Party in Israel which one takes precedence I cannot tell. I would argue he is more a member of Likud than the US senate.

Last year President Obama demanded that the Israeli government cease all settlements in the West Bank so that a permanent peace agreement would be possible. Wow, now that was a departure from our non ending appeasement to Israeli demands and maybe a final breakthrough that would lead to a peace deal. At the time I thought if he could actually make his demands stick, Obama was a bigger man than we bargained for, but I doubted he had the moxie to make his demand stick. Sure enough less than two month later the Israelis thumbed their nose at him with the help of our Israeli bought and paid for congress, if you do not know what I mean, I am sorry I do not have the time to explain it today. But the short version is we give Israel 4 billion dollars cash a year in foreign assistance and a chunk of that makes it back into the campaigns of Israel friendly office seekers. You are paying for our system to be corrupted by a foreign government. In any case back to the subject, since that ultimatum the Likud government has been working to undermine our president. They have determined that the weaker our president is at home the weaker he will be to make demands on them, and they are right.

When Jim DeMint announced,"Healthcare will be Obama's Waterloo." he was not far off. A defeat in health care legislation exposes all of Obama's weaknesses. Enter Joe Lieberman with his song and dance about how, what, when he will support and then not support. Aetna actually gave him a cover for what he was doing. I would argue he was not even working for Aetna an American company. He was working on behalf of the Likud party to weaken our president, a wish expressed by Binyamin Netanyahu several times to make it easier to stand up to Obama's plans for any peace plan.

So I guess the big question is: Now that Lieberman has proven himself as a scumbag and a traitor, what will he do next to surpass his previous achievements?

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