More Holy Joe Nooz

[Stinky The Clown]

Harry told him no-go on Homeland Security chair.

Joe went fishing in the red pond.

Ratface Mitch offered him a seat.

Joe's thinkin' ......

[Stinky The Clown]

1. My take as this unfolds ......

Harry told him he can stay if he gives up his chairmanship and if he stands in the corner and shuts his piehole for two years.

Joe felt gobsmacked.

He says publically that he is keeping his option open.

Ratface Mitch approaches him and sez he can caucus with the Repubs, but he's gotta switch parties. And he has to serve a probationary period of two years, during which he must publically felate one elected Repub each day the next two years.

And he has to swallow.

He will again say he's keeping his options open. In this second presser it will be noticed that not only his options, but also his mouth, are held open.

But back in Connecticut, they're looking for a way to recall him.

He will retire to a kibbutz and try to run for a seat in the Knesset. Top Likud, Labour, and Kadima officials fall on the floor in gales of laughter.

[SlowDownFast]

15. Pffffffffft!!!!!

Keyboard ruined...

:spray:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. DOUCHEBAGGERY!

DOUBLE DOUCHEBAGGERY!

Historically I have been the first person to jump all over anyone suggesting we "kick Joe out." Well, I meant what I said back then. We needed him more than he needed us. Now the opposite is true. So bye bye, douchebag.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Bush is going to need somebody like Joe to slap around in...

down in Naziheaven South America.

[bmbmd]

4. Grima

Wormtongue?

[ROakes1019]

5. where is Joe?

Joe is so screwed because, other than supporting the war and all things Israeli, he has voted with the Democratic side. When Obama brings the troops home, Joe will having nothing in common with the Repugs. I think he believed McCain would tap him for VP or give him some other juicy spot in a McCain administration.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Miscalculation borne of self interest sucks

Tough shit for Joe.

[ihavenobias]

9. Yep

:)

[TahitiNut]

7. Joe used up his "political capital" over the last two years.

He lost the Vice Presidency in 2000. He lost the Presidential Primary in 2004. He lost the Democratic Primary in 2006 and ran AGAINST the Democratic Party nominee after many years accepting DNC dollars. He struck the 'bargain' in 2006 of joining the Democratic caucus in return for his Chairmanship ... but he only occasionally voted with the Dems on CRITICAL votes and then became the poster boy for Quisling politics in the 2008 election.

He burned his bridges.

Let him drown in the cesspool of Mitch's caucus.


Joe doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of winning a Senate bid in 2012. He'll be 69 and without the support of partisan purists on either side ... even if he does run.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. The thing I despise the most about Joe is his covering of Bush&...

Cheney's asses, in his sham investigation on Katrina and the shoddy work that went on in months after Katrina, when the contractors stole the country blind and did so damned little to help the people or to rebuild the gulf coast. Halliburton KB&R and Jeb's POS pump selling friends from Florida made a killing off of the disaster and Lieberman was in the cat bird's seat to have stopped the rip-off and the cover-up of the ineptitude, before, during and after the Katrina disaster and Joe did nothing but cover the BushCo Crony Corps asses by quashing any real investigation or follow-up.

[TahitiNut]

13. It certainly wasn't the behavior I'd want from an ethical former Attorney General.

Joe demonstrated an appalling disregard for machinations in the privatized administration's functions akin to RICO tactics. It brings into question Joe's commitment to both the letter and the spirit of the law with regards to such cronyism.

[charlie]

16. What sucks is

he's always been a subversive asshole. He just went into overdrive during the Bush years.

It was a pain in the ass being called an anti-semite for pointing out his scumbaggery before it got too egregious to be ignored.

[LiberalFighter]

17. If they had built that "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska he could had burned that down too.

[gratuitous]

8. Went all in on a straight

Failed to notice that someone else could be holding a flush. Down the tubes with Mr. Lieberman. Hard for me to believe that Lieberman actually thought he had a position of strength from which to bargain, because I thought (though I don't like him very much) that he was smarter than that. It could be that he's just posturing for whatever fans he thinks he has left, it could be that he's truly blind to the perception of betrayal, but I have to say that I honestly don't know what he thinks of his own actions. Could he possibly think that his public endorsement of Republicans and their failed policies will go unnoticed or unpunished by the Democrats? And since it appears that the Democrats don't need him to make 60 in their caucus, his days of playing both sides for his own personal political gain are over, over, over.

He has well and truly screwed himself and whatever faint hope he may have had for a continued political career.

[Virginia Dare]

12. Well he and his buddy Johnny can be all mavericky together..

I can just picture the two of them all alone at a table in the Senate dining room.

[LiberalFighter]

18. After left the Democratic Party I believe some of his staff left. They were replaced

with probably Republican leaning staffers. They are not likely to be honest with him.

[Virginia Dare]

11. He's going to spend full time sabotaging the Dems anyway..

so he may as well do it from the opposing side. Joe, you suck ass big time.

[myrna minx]

14. Perhaps he'll seek William Kristol's sage advice about what to do.

:rofl