Man, watching dinosaurs made obsolete by modern men in politics over the next few years should be a blast.

The Democratic party thought it was a higher priority to oust him over a 15 year old inappropriate polaroid, in an era where their party can't afford to split on anything.

McCain really hasn't seen it. He is telling the truth. He has slept for 19 of the past 20 years (he is very old).

Seriously though. What the hell DID happen to John. My theory, the real John McCain is gone. Left a couple years back when Alzheimer's took hold. Now John McCain is nothing but a Republican host body fed spam and talking points only to be spewed forth wherever he is placed. We see him as John McCain the fallen politician, and he thinks he's making prestigious movies for the common-folk. Quite diabolical.

He's still just Droopy. God I hate him. Him and the shithead from Arizona should go die having gay sex in their stupid asshole old men faggot coffins.

Thats what I heard too.

I'm going to take that extra step and just pretend that is what he said.

That's a little too insightful for that decrepit old feathered lizard (he ain't no dinosaur; they're awesome) of a man.

I'm almost positive he said that.

He sort of says what he really feels in spite of himself, now and then.

I heard "comedy of the Senate" as well. Five fro Franken.

I figured he just knew same archaic meaning of the word.

He did. Except the word is "comity". But either way is really true.

Cleaner82: it was 'comity'

well then.

I've learnt a new word!

You have your Senate, I have mine. In mine it's pure "comedy," baby.

Why I never...In all my years.

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=70000

He's just gearing up for his 2012 run for the presidency.

they hold presidential elections in hell?

comity

No no. A person asking for comity in the Senate is like a scuba diver asking for a sandwich. It just doesn't make sense, so we are left with comedy. Clearly Grandpa was amused Lieberman.

Call the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHMBULANCE

MY STOGIE!

Never thought I would see a who framed roger rabbit reference on poetv.

10 years ago, Bort said that we dodged a bullet with Gore losing to Bush...

I didn't say we dodged a bullet, or that Gore would have been worse than Bush. All in all I would have preferred a Gore presidency ... even though Gore / Lieberman would have wrecked the Democratic Party for at least a decade. I suspect we would have prevented the 9/11 attacks simply because Gore is the sort of guy to read briefings and act on them, and a lot of the foolishness of the Bush years would have been avoided. At the same time, if Gore would have been anything like Clinton in terms of foreign policy, he would have been willing to engage in unjustifiable military operations, that simply didn't spiral out of control like Iraq did. Read up on Kosovo and the Rambouillet Agreement; that's all on Clinton, not on Congressional Republicans or demands by our allies:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/21/kosovo.comment
And while I don't know for sure whether Gore would have been as eager to engage in the same sort of cynical military / globalization adventure, I don't see Lieberman as the type to slow it down. To be sure, Clinton continued Bush I's indefensible policy on Iraq sanctions -- drop them not when Iraq shows weapons compliance, but only after Saddam is out of power -- and I don't see any signs that Gore was any different.

Domestic-policy-wise, Gore would probably have been able to deliver only what Congress was willing to pass, same as Clinton. I don't fault Clinton for most of the domestic policy compromises he was forced to make because he was dealing with a Republican-heavy Congress; I suspect he would have preferred to pass better legislation (and a lot of it genuinely progressive with the right Congress). But I will note that, while Clinton had Gore as a running mate, Gore had Lieberman, and that signaled an expectation that progressive advances would be slow at best.

That's alternate history. In actual history, Bush's failings galvanized the Democratic base (for a couple election cycles anyway) and we got Obama, who was hands-down a better president than Clinton. Like Clinton, when it came to domestic policy, he was hampered by Congress more than anything so I don't blame him for what Congress wouldn't pass; but when it came to foreign policy, Obama was much better at mending fences and avoiding cynical wars.

(The fucktarded of the Left like to claim that drone strikes were every bit as evil as what Republicans do, but seeing as we were targeting the Taliban and al Qaeda -- the sorts of guys who massacre entire schools just to send a message to the Pakistani government -- I say they're legitimate targets. There's a reason why support for drone strikes sometimes polled as high as 40% favorable among the Pakistani people: the Taliban are like our white supremacists except much MUCH more about inflicting violence upon innocent people as the rule rather than the exception. Reporting from international journalists indicates that the US was very successful at keeping civilians out of harm's way; yes there were tragic mistakes, but the US actually treated them as tragedies and mistakes to not be repeated, as opposed to a reason to give Yusef a "Mass Murderer of the Month" award like I assume the Taliban does.)