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2005-02-14 17:25 | User Profile
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21588-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_politics[/url] A Newly Meaningful Relationship?
By Al Kamen Monday, February 14, 2005; Page A15
Romance is in the air today across the land. But in Washington, the buzz continues about "The Kiss." No, not Gustav Klimt's famous painting. It's the big fat one an exuberant President Bush planted on Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's right cheek as he waded through the Capitol crowd after the State of the Union a couple of weeks ago.
The Connecticut Democrat said he didn't mind it and thought Bush was thanking him for his support of the administration's foreign policy. Or maybe it was for Lieberman's not dismissing outright Bush's Social Security proposal.
Or maybe it was something else. There's been K Street chatter, our colleague Jeffrey H. Birnbaum tells us, that Lieberman could be on an administration list to replace Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in the next year or so.
That would be convenient for Lieberman, whose term is up in 2006, and could give Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) an opportunity to appoint a Republican to the seat for at least a few months before the election, inching the GOP closer to a filibuster-proof Senate.
Or maybe it's just love?
2005-02-14 17:59 | User Profile
No wonder Lieberman didn't want the tittle of Home Land Security Director, he wanted the one of Defense Secretary.
I was scared before about having a Jew as a Home Land Security Director but how do you think I feel now?
There goes the neighborhood, I see a big mushroom cloud in the sky. :angry:
2005-02-14 18:05 | User Profile
[QUOTE]The Connecticut Democrat said he didn't mind it and thought Bush was thanking him for his support of the [U]administration's foreign policy.[/U][/QUOTE]
Of course not, Joe is only serving his [B][I]real country.[/I][/B] :caiphas:
Let's try the foreign policy of Netanyahu and Sharon here before it was retreaded into the "Project for a New American Century". Bush foreign policy? Hah! It was previously known as [url=http://www.aaiusa.org/news/must_read_feith.htm]"Securing the Realm"[/url] When Perle and company tried selling this to Netanyahu. The only difference is instead of the Israelis doing this they got the Americans to do it. Fifth columnists like Lieberman only egged them on.