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"Smokin' Joe Lieberman takes aim"
Joe Lieberman political cartoon

July 20, 2003 … Smokin’ Joe comes out of the center corner to take a swing at…Bobbin’ Bob Graham. Says Graham wrong about impeachment call – “No way…It’s not the right thing to do.” From New Hampshire, The Union Leader Senior Political Reporter John DiStaso reported from Salem in yesterday’s online edition: ‘Joe Lieberman disagrees with fellow Democratic Presidential candidate Bob Graham on whether President George W. Bush’s actions, or lack of action, in the pre-Iraqi war intelligence controversy are serious enough to warrant impeachment…Graham said Bush has been ‘deceitful.’ He said the issues facing the President are ‘a more serious transgression of Presidential power’ than the ‘serious personal consensual act’ that led to former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment. ‘My opinion is, if the standard that was set by the House of Representatives relative to Bill Clinton is the new standard for impeachment, then this clearly comes within that standard,’ Graham said. It is up to the House to initiate impeachment procedures. Lieberman was asked yesterday if he agreed with Graham. ‘No way,’ he replied. ‘There are orderly processes of government in this country. It’s not the right thing to do. We elect people, and if we disagree with them, we should say to the American people why we do, and the way to handle the problem is to vote those people out of office.’ Repeating his call for CIA director George Tenet to resign, Lieberman said, ‘Leadership is about responsibility, and if I were President and I concluded that the CIA director was responsible for putting me before the nation in a State of the Union speech and saying something that wasn’t true, I’d ask the CIA director to resign.’ But since Bush has instead expressed confidence in Tenet, Lieberman said, ‘Something wrong happened here and nobody’s being held accountable.’ He said he wants ‘a full investigation.’ Lieberman said, however, he believes Granite Staters and all Americans are ‘most interested in answers about their jobs and the future economic security.’”