What Should Be Done About J. Lieberman?
Rahm Emanuel, B. Obama's choice to be his White House Chief of Staff, is supposed to have once mailed a dead fish to a political opponent, though that hasn't been confirmed, and besides, the same kind of story dates far back, I believe, through the cultures of other ages.
And that dead fish identity makes J. Lieberman a natural for H. Reid, the leader -- so far -- of the Senate Democrats, to put into his stack of outgoing parcels, senatorially speaking.
To my eye Lieberman has always hung over the head of the Senate Democrats, like an unsheathed samurai sword slung over the entrance to your dining room. He is listed as one of the two Independents in the Senate, the other being B. Sanders of Vermont, both voting usually with the Democrats and so included in their number, which has grown to within three now of a filibuster-proof total of 60. But I am surprised to hear that Lieberman has voted any at all with the Democrats, much less three-quarters of the time, and that he hasn't long since instead converted to being a full-fledged Republican. The things I'hear about him place him as being much more in that camp, and in fact he supposedly didn't miss by much being J. McCain's running mate this year as Vice-President.
But whether that's true or not, his buddy-buddy bit with J. McCain didn't do that Republican any more good than happened with A, Gore, while Lieberman was running for the same office in 2000 as a Democrat.
J. Lieberman strikes me as being a faithless, flaccid, walking snake bite of a guy, and if H. Reid has any smarts he will say, "Bye, Joe, and good luck out there in your marshmallow land."
Any situation would profit from Lieberman's absence, and I am baffled by all the people in Connecticut and elsewhere that can't seem to see that.
And that dead fish identity makes J. Lieberman a natural for H. Reid, the leader -- so far -- of the Senate Democrats, to put into his stack of outgoing parcels, senatorially speaking.
To my eye Lieberman has always hung over the head of the Senate Democrats, like an unsheathed samurai sword slung over the entrance to your dining room. He is listed as one of the two Independents in the Senate, the other being B. Sanders of Vermont, both voting usually with the Democrats and so included in their number, which has grown to within three now of a filibuster-proof total of 60. But I am surprised to hear that Lieberman has voted any at all with the Democrats, much less three-quarters of the time, and that he hasn't long since instead converted to being a full-fledged Republican. The things I'hear about him place him as being much more in that camp, and in fact he supposedly didn't miss by much being J. McCain's running mate this year as Vice-President.
But whether that's true or not, his buddy-buddy bit with J. McCain didn't do that Republican any more good than happened with A, Gore, while Lieberman was running for the same office in 2000 as a Democrat.
J. Lieberman strikes me as being a faithless, flaccid, walking snake bite of a guy, and if H. Reid has any smarts he will say, "Bye, Joe, and good luck out there in your marshmallow land."
Any situation would profit from Lieberman's absence, and I am baffled by all the people in Connecticut and elsewhere that can't seem to see that.
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 5:33 AM
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