Crooks and Liars does it again:
Remember the Kiss?
John McCain on Imus this morning: “Your and my dear friend Joe Lieberman, just came back from a trip there and wrote a piece in the WSJ, where he was very optimistic. I may not be as optimistic as Joe, but I do think we’re making progress…”
It certainly seems likes Joe is bucking for Rummy’s job. He out McCain’s-McCain.
Here’s the video of President Bush planting a wet one on Joe. …(Image grabbed from Rising Hegemon blog.)
Update [2005-12-7 14:47:24 by susanhu]: If you have news on a federal air marshal who apparently shot a passenger while in flight, please post here. I’ve been on the phone and missed some of the reports. CNN: It’s an American Airlines flight from Colombia stopping in Miami. Thanks!
Then there’s President Bush’s ode to Joe this morning (read it below the fold). OPEN THREAD!
From Bush’s speech this morning:
… One of those who has seen that progress is Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman. Senator Lieberman has traveled to Iraq four times in the past 17 months, and the article he wrote when he returned from his most recent trip provides a clear description of the situation on the ground. Here’s what Senator Lieberman wrote — Senator Lieberman wrote about the Iraq he saw: “Progress is visible and practical. There are many more cars on the streets, satellite television dishes on the roofs, and literally millions more cell phones in Iraq hands than before.” He describes an Iraqi poll showing that, “two-thirds [of Iraqis] say they are better off than they were under Saddam Hussein.”
Senator Lieberman goes on, “Does America have a good plan for doing this, a strategy for victory in Iraq? Yes, we do. And it’s important to make clear to the American people that the plan has not remained stubbornly still, but has changed over the years.” The Senator says that mistakes have been made. But he goes on to say that he is worried about a bigger mistake. He writes, “What a colossal mistake it would be for America’s bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will and, in the famous phrase, to seize defeat from the jaws of the coming victory.” Senator Lieberman is right.
If I can count correctly, Bush mentioned LIEBERMAN’s name six times.
