Oh, fat chunky rat’s nuts, is this guy really still in the Senate!?
Sure, it’s almost like clockwork at this point, but it doesn’t make today’s return of Joe Lieberdouche any more palatable. Every year or so, Sleepy Joe emerges from his slimy hole, flaps his jowls around, shakes his fist at children, and yells gibberish at Harry Reid. The inexplicable 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee has made a name for himself in GOP circles, turning himself first into the one Democrat they really respect, before abandoning all principles and leaving the party just because he lost an election.
So what brings Lieberman back into the daylight today? Well, apparently he couldn’t do his ghey semantic dance in private.
From a retarded Politico article:
Lieberman did say he’s “strongly inclined” to vote to proceed to the debate [on health care]…
Furthermore:
Lieberman said he “very much” wants to vote for health care reform…
So what’s the big hullabaloo?
[Lieberman added that] he’ll ultimately vote to block a floor vote on the bill if it isn’t changed first [so that a public option is not included].
In other words, he wants nothing more than to vote for and debate a health care bill, but he has no other choice but to stifle debate.
We’re trying to do too much at once,” Lieberman said. “To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt. I don’t think we need it now.”
That’s right. Joe Lieberman, who’s never met a war he didn’t like, is suddenly against anything that burdens taxpayers — at least if that thing would result in fewer people dying, anyway.
Note, this isn’t about Lieberman’s opposition to a public option — oppose it if you want, speak out against it if you’re so inclined. In fact, be a total cock, if that’s what you love to be.
The problem here is Joe Lieberman’s continued, absolutely loathsome ability to say two things at once, neither of which is palatable. What the hell is wrong with you, Connecticut? How is this person still in the Senate?
At times like this, it’s appropriate to remember Wonkette’s description of the Nutmeg State’s best senator: “It’s like two quarter-pound stools of alien space shit crashed into a toxic waste dumpster in Stamford, Connecticut, fucked, and out came their mutilated, blood-soaked carcass of a baby rat-child, Senator Joseph Lieberman.”
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