BHO can put the LBJ on Poor Joe Lieberman because Leebs doesn't have any friends in the Senate. And he doesn't have any friends in the Senate because everyone realizes that by January 2009, Virginia is going to have two Democratic Senators for the first time since the era of Harry Byrd. That's a clear majority, my friends, even if all six of the seats in play go red. I drink your milkshake. Viz., Joe on a McCain conference call:
"If Israel is in danger today, it’s not because of American foreign policy which has been strongly supportive of Israel in every way, it is not because what we have done in Iraq, it is because Iran is a fanatical terrorist, expansionist state and has a leader and a leadership that constantly threatens to extinguish the state of Israel." (emphasis mine)See how energetic he gets by the end? Weird, right? Nervous about something...
Assuming he's off the squad, how will Republicans swallow his pro-labor, pro-choice, pro-amnesty platform? What will it be like to be the most junior Republican Senator?
What's it going to be like for Joe to sit between Jim Bunning and Tom Coburn? Won't Jim De Mint kick his ass every day for his lunch money?
Joe is wrong about The Consequences of Leaving Iraq, The Persian Menace, and The Rise of Islamofascism; won't the Republican Party be seeking people who can read the international tea-leaves a trifle better? Don't they need fewer, rather than more such braying jackasses? Lieberman has virtually the same foreign policy weltanschaaung as Rick Santorum, who now writes unfunny op-eds in the vein of his wrestling commercial...
I'm saying Lieberman's future is bleak.
So what was in that conversation on the Senate floor?
"Joe. Come here. Let me explain something to you. Personally, I don't give a shit if you work for the old man. Your conscience is free. Kill babies, run over old ladies in the Piggly Wiggly. Whatever. My position is this. If you persist in sniping at me from my side of the aisle, you will live out the rest of your term in agonizing fucking pain."
"B-but --"
"Agonizing pain. No reason why you should rank. No reason why you should have a nice office, or your own sub-committees --"
"B-but, Rules --"
"Rules? Fuck Rules. This is what I'm saying to you. You go make peace with those Ku Klux across the aisle. Because you know what? Fuck your seniority. Lyndon Johnson said fuck your seniority --"
"But I'm the decider --"
"You're not deciding shit Lieberman. You haven't been all Congress. I don't like your jerkoff name; I don't like your jerkoff face; and I don't like you, jerkoff."
Exeunt
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