“Listen, I’m a politician which means I’m a cheat and a liar.  And when I’m not kissing babies, I’m stealing their lollipops. But it also means I keep my options open.”
                           - ‘Dr. Jeffery Pelt, National Security Advisor,  from the movie The Hunt for Red October

When I first heard last Spring that President Obama and the Senate Democratic Caucus were trying to court Senator Joe Lieberman in order to cobble together some super-majority in the Senate, I was beyond skeptical, and for good reasons.  I had this very strong, visceral feeling this would come back and really bite them in the ass.  OK, I admit I am wrong from time to time, but I was dead-on regarding  this one . . .

This is one of the most irrational decisions the Democrats ever made, and it is now coming back to haunt them in a way that will likely be a defining moment in American political history regarding a political party having held both the Whitehouse and a majority in Congress, and thereafter, failing to pass a significant pieces of legislation  - substantive Healthcare Reform  - the one act that might have represented the first step in reigning in a disastrous financial time-bomb that will explode in the country’s face within this next decade.  How or why did President Obama and the majority of the Democratic Caucus in the U.S. Senate ever decide to trust Senator Joe Lieberman earlier this year after he stabbed them in the back in both the 2006 and 2008 elections, demonstrating beyond even a kernel of a doubt that he has no one’s interests at heart but his own?   The Democrats gave away the farm and got nothing in return!  This utterly defies logic and reason.

There is an old adage:  “If you pick up a snake and it bites you, do not be surprised.”

This transparently egotistical, self-serving waste of human skin keeps his finger up in the air at all times to see which way the wind is blowing, while simultaneously burying his nose where the sun never shines  – deep inside the rectum of the insurance industry’s corporate political donors - in order to ensure his re-election every six years.  Moreover, his current antics of refusing to support any of the proposed compromises so as to effectually block any chance of substantive legislation is so calculated that it smacks of maniacal vindictiveness.  

Joe Lieberman – you are just a shill for the insurance industry.

Judas could not hold a candle to your soul-less character.