Speaking of Drama…

Posted on 11/14/2008 at 5:52 pm by Bob Cesca

I bet attention-whore Joe Lieberman is loving this extra time in the spotlight. I am Lieberman! I’m very important! Everyone is fighting over little old me!? Ehhhhxcellent!

Seriously, if there’s anyone more deserving of being ignored by the party, the new administration and the blogotubes — for better or worse — it’s Lieberman. History has shown that he clearly hates being ignored. But he also loves making the blogotubes angry. He’s a great big bastard to be sure, but he craves all of this.

For what it’s worth, I’m thinking that maybe the Democrats should keep him in the club, if only to deny him the ability to go around acting like a martyr and raising money on his sad-faced victim status. Then we quietly prepare to crush him in 2012. Meanwhile, I’m not so sure that losing an additional anti-filibuster vote is worth the satisfaction of taking away his chairmanship. I’ve found that it’s more fun to exact revenge on someone who doesn’t expect it.

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  • sama71

    Ha! I say they let him stay but he must change his legal name to Montgomery Burns.

  • http://livefreeordie08.wordpress.com LiveFreeOrDie08

    What’s he gonna do it he gets stripped of his chair? Vote with the Reptiles? He’d be eviscerated by his constituents. He’s got nowhere to go. The filibuster bluff is just that. The first Republican call for filibuster is going to be met with Obama getting on the air/tubes/email machine to say “end this” and 15 minutes later the offices of every (remaining) Republican Senator will be flooded with demands to shut the fuck up and move on.Filibuster – PWNed Obama Style!Goodbye Grampa Joe

  • PackyJ

    For anyone interested: The need for Joe Liberman in the majority may be diminished a bit:http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=9353677See?Not ALL Alaskans are hoopleheads.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Vengeance is a dish best served cold.

  • PackyJ

    LFOD: You’re right, Joe has nowhere to go.That’s exactly where he should be in the Democratic Senate organization.Nowhere.

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Bob wrote:

    I’ve found that it’s more fun to exact revenge on someone who doesn’t expect it.

    OK then! Remind me to stay on your good side!tremblesQT

  • josh dobbin

    Why does anyone assume that his maintaining his chairmanships will equate into him being a part of any filibuster-proof majority?He’s gone on Glenn Beck (!!!) and said that he feared for America’s SURVIVAL if the democrats got 60 seats.And at 58 or 59 seats, I’m sure we can find 2 republicans when it counts on most things.

  • ceu

    Leahy & Sanders both came out today & called for Joe to lose his chairmanships. Said he shouldn’t be rewarded for the things he said.i agree.And I’m with Josh – there’s no guarantee that he’ll vote with the Dems to forestall a filibuster. He LIKES filibusters! He said: LIEBERMAN: And I think the filibuster is the key. You know, it gets a bad name, but it was really put there, a 60-vote requirement, to, as somebody said to me when I first came to the Senate, stop the passions of a moment among the people of America from sweeping across the Congress, the House, through the Senate, to a like-minded President and having us do things that will change America for a long time. So the filibuster is one of the important protections we have.http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10699As for him being reelected ever, his approval rating in CT is 36% – 21% among Democrats. Back in the early years of this decade, that rating was 80% among Dems. And the response to:If the 2012 election for U.S. Senate were held today would you to reelect Joe Lieberman would you consider voting for another candidate or would you vote to replace Lieberman?Reelect 35Consider Someone Else 18Replace 48http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/frontPage.do?previousId=0

  • Andhakari

    Lieberman is Chairman of an important and powerful committee. As such he has the ability to steer the direction of inquiry and legislation. He will have the power to attack Obama from his Democratic pulpit.Once reappointed, he can only be removed from that position with the approval of the full Senate, subject to filibuster!Letting him keep the Chairmanship would be nothing short of moronic. Whether he stays in the caucus or not is up to him. The question at hand is ONLY the Chairmanship. Good government requires his expulsion from that position.

  • http://misterfurious.blogspot.com/ Mr Furious

    This attention and drama is why Reid should have hammered him last week and been done with it.If it weren’t for the oversight half of his committee I wouldn’t care beyond the revenge factor, but letting him have that sword to dangle over the party for the next four years is actually BEYOND moronic.