It's Joe-ver Between Us, Mr. Lieberman

Joe Lieberman thinks his fate was sealed with blogger types--I didn't know I was a type but okay--was sealed with a kiss (from the New Yorker):

"Lieberman is a study in the dangers of steroidal muscularity, becoming an outlier in his own party. (He has edged to the right as his running mate in the 2000 election, Al Gore, has moved leftward.) His fate was sealed with a kiss, planted on his cheek by Bush, just after the President delivered his State of the Union address. 'That may have been the last straw for some of the people in Connecticut, the blogger types,' Lieberman told me."

Actually, Joe, the camel's spinal fluid was dripping out long before then. The photo of the Bush kiss was merely a symbol of how you've given this White House political cover on a host of major issues these last four years. Whether it's torture or banking dereg or the bankruptcy bill (a bill he only voted against when his vote no longer really counted, in a maneuver which makes me wonder whether his few defenders should cite his voting record) Lieberman is Rosencrantz and/or Gildenstern to Bush's Claudius and to the moneyed interests on Wall Street. What's more, he likes to go onto Fox News and bash Democrats who disagree with him. For someone who votes with the Democrats 80% of the time, wouldn't you think he'd devote himself to attacking the Republicans at least occasionally? Hell, I still haven't forgiven him for trying to give the Republicans political cover during impeachment by delivering that moralizing harangue on the Senate floor. Your president, a charter member along with you of the DLC, is threatened with impeachment and removal from office because he lied in a lawsuit deposition about a private sexual affair that had diddly-shit to do with running the country, an impeachment that would have been a disaster not only for the Democratic Party but for the country as a whole, an impeachment driven by right-wing ideologues whose personal hatred of the President was such that they wanted to put the entire country on hold so that they could parade what they'd discovered about how the President spent his free moments, and you, Mr. Lieberman, go out onto the Senate floor and give that impeachment drive a fig leaf of bipartisan respectability?

Of course, he voted against it later.

I think it was Lyndon Johnson who said of some wayward Democrat that he'd rather have on the inside of the tent pissing out than on the outside pissing in. This doesn't work with Joe Lieberman, because he has the nasty habit of pissing inside of tents that he's in. What does he do for us that any other Democrat in the Connecticut state legislature couldn't do? And what does he do to hurt us that no other Democrat in the Connecticut state legislature would ever do? Riddle me that, Bull Moose.