So Joe "Talks to God and won't let God get a word in edgewise" Lieberman is apparently not going to run again in 2012. There is a strange sense of anticlimax in this news.
Time was, one could actually care what this runt did or didn't do. Indeed, we wasted a fair amount of virtual ink on the garden gnome from Bridgeport right here at this very blog.
What were we thinking of? Surely it is clear that Joe's departure won't change a thing, and never would have? It's so easy to get caught up in the smell of the crowd and hiss the designated villain con brio along with everybody else.
Looking for someone who might give a shit about this development, I finally worked my way down the list to the dank moldy subbasement of Daily Kos, a space formerly used for temporary storage by Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb, where the general tone was one of peevish puerile Bronx-cheering. But God bless 'em, there are always realists at Kos more crackpot even than their wellmates:
Hopefully he joins Obamas cabinet (6+ / 0-)Interesting to see that even at Kos, nobody that I saw was trying to make any case that the cankered munchkin's departure mattered. They just didn't like him, or most of 'em didn't, anyway, and were glad to fling a spitball at his meagre ass on the way out. Which does them credit, of course, to the extent that inconsequential fanship choices can.Lieberman was excellent on Dadt, even when he apparently knew he would have to leave the Senate. In case you haven't noticed, he is a formidable foe and a powerful ally. So called moderates look to him for leadership. I'd rather have him on our side than against us. The last election, we got our ass handed to us in ways that it is still impossible to understand. So as mad as he made me, I want him with us not against us. We don't have a shortage of enemies, we have a shortage of allies and ideological purity ain't the answer. It's not personal. Strcitly business. Sometimes we lack that sense In the progressive community.
by jasonb on Tue Jan 18, 2011 at 03:28:45 PM PST
yep--it does our side no good (0+ / 0-)to burn bridges.
for the 99 things liebermann did that pissed me off, i've still got to give him some credit for dadt.
i hope he does go to fox---and actually stands up for our side, even if only the moderate faction. hell, that would be better than we've got now.
by mama jo on Tue Jan 18, 2011 at 05:31:20 PM PST
Comments (9)
Why would the folks at Kos not like Lieberman but still like Obama? On what consequential policy difference are they not alike?
I don't get it.
But I stopped reading Kos a long time ago. I'm much happier for it.
Posted by Drunk Pundit | January 20, 2011 5:34 PM
Posted on January 20, 2011 17:34
"our side"
ROFL.
Posted by Michael Dawson | January 20, 2011 5:56 PM
Posted on January 20, 2011 17:56
Posted by MJS | January 20, 2011 10:15 PM
Posted on January 20, 2011 22:15
That pic is hilarious. Was he trying to one-up Dukakis's tank photo? It looks like he's about to shit himself any second. Too bad he didn't step on an IED.
Posted by Joe | January 21, 2011 9:43 AM
Posted on January 21, 2011 09:43
my gosh
the brdigeport meadow muffin can't even draw flies here anymore
4 comments ??? most about the roller kos-ters
why there was a time when he bestrobe us
pwogs like a colossus
ah .... the whims whelps and wains
of fugit time
Posted by op | January 21, 2011 9:58 AM
Posted on January 21, 2011 09:58
the photo is indeed iconic
Posted by op | January 21, 2011 9:59 AM
Posted on January 21, 2011 09:59
"Yeah. I drop in maybe once a year, when I'm desperate for material. A dull dull site."
Ha... yes, desperation will drive us to do strange things. Been there.
As you say it is a dull site. Interminable polling updates and pleas to support some democrat somewhere who is a "better" democrat. Guh.
Posted by Drunk Pundit | January 21, 2011 10:43 AM
Posted on January 21, 2011 10:43
"I'd rather have him on our side than against us... ideological purity ain't the answer."
I've never seen such a succinct explanation for why the Democrats have been devotedly tagging along behind Dick Cheney for the last ten years.
Posted by Picador | January 21, 2011 11:07 AM
Posted on January 21, 2011 11:07
found this back there by my brother js
apropos the then joementum fixation
amomg
latitudinarian peogs
seems quaint now the lieber is lame
" watch yourselves
this guy is becoming
a black hole
for too much stray lefty bile
he's fast approaching a power morph
where he becomes
a temptation to spit
beyond temptation
where the force of repulsion
becomes a force of sick attraction
we woody vets call it
the nixon effect
but think not
of the late richard N 's
towering
great ham
performances
joe's got it
he's got the magic
but its a toonish
stuck loop version
with none of the masters vastness of gesture
no
this is very much puppet theatre here
full size
dark side charisma he ain't got
okay maybe
that other dick
count cheney
has a touch of that full scale thang
maybe....
but
not this pip
nope
he's not hideous
and wort bursting
not flushing blood from his gums
even on his own terms
he's a side show
a kiddy distraction
but it draws one in anyway when its the only venue where the battle is being
fully engaged
inside the donkery
and in the hope
i can stay clear
of
total
cross eyed distraction
i try to
consider this
u could jab
his voooo-doooooo pin doll
10 thousand times a second
with the longest sharpest needle
on earth
and
he'll feel none of it
absolutely nothing
not a wince will we see
just that wide skip rope
goop of a muppet grin
nope nothing at all
jab his haitian luv doll
till
the kaaba stone comes
to jerusalem
and
he'll just
rabid pussycat right on
where there's no shame
there's no pain "
amen joe
now in living dead mode
molder away
you fucking freak-soak
Posted by op | January 21, 2011 11:47 AM
Posted on January 21, 2011 11:47