Senator Joe Lieberman (R-Israel) and Congressman John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a conference yesterday at the Hart Senate Office Building, sponsored by the Likud Party national headquarters in the US, more commonly referred to as the American Enterprise Institute. They determined that the only problem with the American political discourse is the DFH’s, who, it is acknowledged by all civil mouths in the political spectrum, are terribly uncivil. They wanted to discuss “options for restoring civility in American politics.”

Lieberman and Boehner both decried the harsh incivility in politics today while portraying themselves as paragons of independence and cordiality.

Lieberman described his own politics as “stand[ing] up for what I believe is right and…work[ing] across party lines to get things done.” As for the rest of politics, “The majority of people are sick of it. They think our political system is sick.” Lieberman blamed “attack ads, the kind of divisiveness of the cable news coverage of politics, talk radio,” and bloggers who “have added another dimension of vituperation toxicity to it.”

Boehner agreed, saying he has worked to “find ways of disagreeing without being disagreeable.” He asked innocently, “Where does all the partisanship come from?” and answered it by lamenting how blogs and other outlets have put “more information out in the public realm than there ever was, and some of it is to drive one point of versus other, dividing people more and more.” He called this the “breakdown of America.”

As Think Progress notes, Senator Lieberman is the very paragon of civil discourse:

Critics of Bush’s Iraq war strategy are engaging “in a kind of harassment.”

Ned Lamont’s primary win “will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England.”

How's that for lessons in civil discourse?

I can’t help but agree with Whining Joe, who had such a terrible discourteous fright last year when it looked like he was going to lose his job and have to actually go out and work for a living. It was a near-run thing, let me tell you. If it wasn’t for the millions of dollars Messers Bu$h and Cheney instructed their Connecticut zombies to contribute to Senator Lieberman’s campaign, the Nutmeg State might well be represented by a Democrat today.

It truly is the worst form of harassment when 70% of the populace, voters and taxpayers, by the way, demand that our eight-year old mind in an adult body stop his killing ways and pay some attention to us rather than to enriching his oil buddies. And I’m sure Osama bin-Forgotten was frustrated beyond measure when he learned that Connecticut didn’t turn blue. It’s very fortunate that state regulations allow Republicans to vote for anyone they want in general elections, otherwise I’m sure workers at Sikorsky would be wearing turbans and hijabs, and craftsmen at the sub base at New London would be knocking off five times a day to answer a muzzein’s call to worship.

Congressman Boehner’s contribution to civil discourse was to note that DFH’s were poisoning America, and if they didn’t stop forcing 15 year old lesbians to have abortions every 5th month, the country would suffer. And the Black Masses must cease. Forthwith.

Actually, what Mr Boehner apparently said was;

one of the points you make is — where does all the partisanship come from? the breakdown in america and — you could argue which came first the chicken or the eydie has invent the nafta campaigns. Or has it been this increasing polarization that we’ve seen over the last 20 years driven by 24-hour news networks, talk radio, blogs — they’ve got to have something there, so there is more information out in the public realm than there ever was, and some of it is to drive one point of versus other, dividing people more and more, and then you’ve got every interest group known to man out there drumming up their issues, on one side or the other. And while there may be a growing sense of independence of that, i haven’t seen it yet. because the other — when you push and pull and tug the american people it is about 46% republicans, about 46% democrat and about a% middle — so — what i have been trying to do over the last few years is to find ways of disagreeing without being disagreeable.

As a typical Republican, Mr Boehner seems to have ignored the truth that only about 26% of Americans today voluntarily identify themselves with the “Republican” brand, but after all, science, with its precise measurements and accuracy and all, has a notorious liberal bias.

He also seems to disapprove of dispensing information to the electorate, although I can’t quite understand why.

Senator Lieberman noted,

We can’t hold our finger in the air or read public opinion polls to tell us where to go. My God, if those who preceded us had done that, forget where we’d be today, we wouldn’t be a nation, we wouldn’t be free today, you can go back over it. But let me go to last year real quickly, in my case. Obviously, the Democratic primary was mostly about one issue, the war. I felt so strongly about it I wasn’t going to change. … If the people of Connecticut — if last year’s election in Connecticut was only about the Iraq war, I would have lost because the public opinion polls show clearly a majority in Connecticut are opposed to the war.

So, a real leader just can’t be bothered paying attention to what the public wants, and instead must be prepared to drag them, kicking and screaming and protesting to where he wants them to be. Yessirree… that’s leadership, baby!