How Low Can Joe Go?

Joe Lieberman shouldn’t matter any more.

With all of the positive prospects facing the Democrats for the fall if we keeping doing all we’re doing (and I mean those supporting the candidates as well as the candidates themselves), it shouldn’t matter that Joe Lieberman continues to whine, pontificate, and consort with Repugs at every turn.

But somehow it does; at least to me, anyway, and others I’m sure. And he does so again today (here), and I’m not going to include any excerpts; suffice it to say that he believes his precious Democratic Party has been taken over by a bunch of dirty fracking peacenik hippies who hate the Iraq war, eschew any sense of individual responsibility and, consequently, engage in all manner of illicit personal activities including taking drugs, attending blogger meetups at local watering holes and voting for Ned Lamont, to the point where he tells us with total conviction that the mantle of the Democratic Party of JFK now belongs to no one else but John W. McBush.

Yep, that’s The Last Honest Man, the fly in the mayonnaise jar, the Baby Ruth in the swimming pool, the stink bomb in the middle of the concert recital, your dear uncle who INSISTS on lighting up a cigar on the porch during the humid summertime with the smoke wafting through the screen into the play room where Little Johnny is mangling his little green soldiers under the treads of his motorized tank…

OK, you get the idea.

So what do we do? I’ll tell you what to do, Mr. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

You boot this forever fawning neocon underling off the Homeland Security Committee once and for all, that’s what you do! There are probably other punishments that can be exacted (within the bounds of legal behavior and reasonably good taste, I know), but that’s a start.

And sometime after November 5th of this year, do whatever is necessary to remove the title of “Democrat” from his party affiliation (“Independent Democrat” isn’t enough of a qualifier – actually, no word is sufficient without calling him a “Republican” of one type or another).

And do it live on “Countdown” with Keith Olbermann so it will be enshrined as a You Tube moment forever.

That way, he’ll only be able to turn to the Repugs who I suspect will get tired of his act faster than we have.

Update 4/3/08: Another triumph of idiocy from this asshat (h/t Bill in Portland, Maine @ The Daily Kos).