Tailgunner Joe

As Digby points out, Joe F'ckin Lieberman could give a rat's ass about Americans dying because they don't have health coverage and not only won't lift a finger to fix it, he will actively stop the Senate from being able to even vote on fixing it. The victims of the shooting at Fort Hood however were killed in the Worst Terror Attack On U.S. Soil Since 9/11 and there must be a full Senate investigation into how Obama presumably is at fault.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who heads the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said initial evidence suggested that the alleged shooter, Army Major Nidal Hasan, was a "self-radicalized, home-grown terrorist" who had turned to Islamic extremism while under personal stress.

Mr. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, had opened fire Thursday at a soldier processing center at Fort Hood, Tex., killing 13 and wounding 29 in the worst mass shooting on a military facility in the U.S.

Mr. Lieberman, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," cautioned that it remained too early to draw any definitive conclusions. He said his comments were based on "reports that we are receiving" about Mr. Hasan's actions and comments.

The Army's top officer, Gen. George Casey, wouldn't rule out that the shooting was an act of terrorism, but cautioned against speculation at this point. "We all want to know what happened and what motivated the suspect, but we need to … let the investigation take its course," he told ABC News's "This Week."

Mr. Lieberman said that if news reports were true that Mr. Hasan had turned to Islamic extremism, "the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most-destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11."

Sanctimonious prick doesn't begin to scratch the surface of this man. And as Digby further notes, starting this investigation means that any effort for the Dems to do anything to Lieberman for blocking health care reform will bring out cries that Obama is trying to stop Lieberman from getting at the "truth" that Obama is really a Muslim sleeper agent.

A nice little trap if I ever saw one.