Place revenge dish in microwave; set on “defrost”

There are a number of theories on Lieberman’s motives for gutting the health care reform bill—he’s a spiteful prick; he’s an insurance lackey; he’s a wizened, whiny prima donna; he’s all-of-the-above. Whatever. 

I don’t want to waste another goddamned minute psychoanalyzing Joe Lieberman. The end result is the same: We are fucked over but good by that smarmy worm. Again.

I also don’t care anymore what the president or Democratic caucus plan to do about Lieberman’s naked perfidy in this fight because it’s clear to me that it will be this: FUCK ALL. The senate is famously clubby, and if you ask me, there’s not enough “club” in that clubbiness. But nobody asked me.

Although nobody in office gives a damn what liberals think, MoveOn.org does. I received an email from MoveOn at 5:47 yesterday evening with a subject line that read simply “Lieberman.” It was a plea for donations to help take Holy Joe down. It appeared with this graph:

They had reached 89% of their goal of raising $400K by the time I saw the message. I kicked in $5.

Later yesterday evening, I checked again, and they had upped the ante to $500K:

And reached 96% of that second goal.

I checked again this morning:

The new goal is $750K, and they had reached 86% of that before I had my second cup of coffee.

I just checked again, and here’s the new graph:

They’re at 66% of $1M.

A few hundred thousand here and there, and pretty soon you’re talking about serious money. According to the New York Times, Lieberman has received $1M in campaign contributions from the insurance industry—since 1998. MoveOn is on track to raise that by lunch time today.

In yesterday’s Lieberman-is-a-prick thread, Kevin said, “The only good news I see coming out of this mess is that a large chunk of the media/punditry seems to have finally realized what a vindictive, petty little shit Lieberman is.”

I think he’s right. Attention whore that Lieberman is, he, like Balloon Boy Dad before him, appears to be learning that not all publicity is good. Watch him stammer through a post-hoc justification for his Medicare buy-in flip-flop here. He doesn’t seem to be enjoying that exchange, does he?

So buck up, fellow libs: Lieberman has won the battle. If we’re honest, we’ll have to admit he’s won the whole fucking war. But he’s mewling about running in 2012 already—GOP? Independent? O, whatever will he do, a breathless nation wonders?

But beneath all the coy bullshit, what this means is that he still wants something. Which means he can be denied if we stay focused. The revenge casserole is wrapped in plastic layers and placed in the deep freeze. But the thought of listening to Lieberman’s concession speech keeps me warm.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 12/16/09 at 12:18 PM • Permalink

He’s not hard to look at either. I’m seriously considering donating some money to Crist because Rubio could definitely spell trouble for FL, and as a young, handsome, not-dumb, charismatic wingnut from a swing state, trouble for America down the road. Be very afraid.

Here’s an interesting tidbit from TPM:

A Senate Democratic Chief of Staff weighs in ...

I don’t pretend to know Joe Lieberman’s motivation, but it’s working to perfection if his goal is to divide Party leaders (Obama, Reid, etc.) from the Democratic progressive base. I don’t remember seeing this level of outrage from movement progressives before, and I wonder if the only possible way to quell it is to secure Snowe’s vote for reform and then remove Lieberman from his chairmanship. I’m not necessarily advocating that, but many people (including many on the Hill) believe that he is playing us for chumps (not waiting for the CBO score of the Medicare buy-in, opposing something he advocated a couple of months ago), and there need to be consequences. It’s not an easy decision, though, and I don’t envy Reid.

I still say they’d do fuck-all, but this is further evidence of the scale of the damage. Even if Lieberdouche wanders off into the sunset with a fat Aetna gig, such a send-off would have to ding that enormous ego. Cold comfort, that, but we take the crumbs we can get.

I challenge Lieberman to a round of Roshambo.

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