Lieberman as AG?

[sabbat hunter]

what qualifications does he even have to be a AG?

They are talking about this right now on the Thom Hartman show, how Joe might be named by * to be the next AG.

[spotbird]

1. Clement will be the nominee. nt

[Auggie]

2. I'd be very surprised

[Hawkeye-X]

3. Let him.

We have the majority locked up - by agreement after we took over the 110th Senate.

And they should call for a special election instead of Rell trying to sneak in a Rethug.

[sabbat hunter]

8. I dont know the law in CT

Does it allow (as many states do) to allow the Governor to select the replacement or can a special election even be called?


Also who is to say that the republicans won't back out of the agreement?

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[napi21]

4. I seriously doubt it! Joe has few to NO friends with the Dems, and

not many if any with the Pubs! THAT nomination would never make it out of committee! The Pubs are just using him and he's too damn dumb to realize it!

[onenote]

5. he was CT's AG for 6 years, I believe

But he's not going to get the job. He won't want it and the repubs don't want him to get it. He's loyal to the repubs on issues involving the war and domestic surveillance, but not on issues like abortion, the environment etc. They will find someone who adheres to their entire agenda.

[Orangepeel]

6. Joe's slimy but he's not stupid.

Why would he give up the cushy Senate job he just won to go be AG in a lame duck administration?

[ronnykmarshall]

9. That's what I was thinking.

Hopefully this will be Lieberman's last term. I can't see him leaving for what will be a temporary position as AG.

[Stuckinthebush]

10. Indeed. Joe is not an idiot

He's a nasty snake but he is not an idiot.

Why would ANYONE want that job? Joe has five more years in the Senate. If he takes the AG job he has 18 months of headaches and then nothing.

I'm amazed anybody would want any job in that sinking ship called the Bush Administration.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

13. Wrong! He's an idiot, but not a suicidal idiot...

Thom Hartman was just speculating that this could be part of Joe's plan to get to the White House. I disagree. Doing someething like this would brand Lieberman as a traitor in both parties -- his political career would be over. Finito. Deader than disco.

He won't do it.

[eyesroll]

7. He is a lawyer (Yale Law grad) and a former state AG. So he is, on paper, qualified.

So is Paul Clement. Plenty of people are qualified on paper.

The question is...would he do a good job? That's different from qualified.

Hell, I'm qualified on paper for every constitutional office in my state except judge/justice and DA. (Strangely, it seems AG's don't even need law licenses. DA does, though -- I'll be qualified to be a DA in May 2009 and qualified for judge/justice positions in 2014.)

[draft_mario_cuomo]

11. Does CT have a Dem governor? nt

[sabbat hunter]

15. no he is a republican n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

19. She is a republican governor, Jodi Rell.

http://www.ct.gov/

[TwilightGardener]

12. Thom Hartman makes shit up out of thin air.

[Crabby Appleton]

14. Not gonna happen, why would he take that demotion

[On the Road]

16. What Might Make the Idea Appealing to Bush

is that it would be very difficult for a Democratic Senate to reject Lieberman after his having been the Democratic VP candidate just a few years ago. On "security" issues, Lieberman has been more loyalist than a lot of Republicans. And having a prominent Democrat head up the scandal-ridden Justice department could defuse some of the outrage, divide the opposition, and lend a patina of respectability to the department. Which is all Bush needs until Jan 09.

I'm not saying Bush will ask Lieberman, or that Lieberman would accept, but it does make a certain kind of tactical sense.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. NWIH

No Way In Hell

Even Ambitious Holy Joe is smarter than that.

Who needs to jump into festering fish stew when one has a nice gig as a "maverick?"

[SaveElmer]

18. Well I hope he does...

How much worse than Gonzalez can he be? He'd be there for 18 months, and it would open up his Senate seat, maybe get a committed Democrat in there...

I doubt he would go for it though!