Ah Connecticut's about fed up with St. Joe, the everylasting paid mourner for political failure; why Joe's foray into the spotlight in 2000 was a godsend for those stuck in a "Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome" malaise.
Joe has assumed the leprous lesions of the Republican party and decided thru sheer will, he will resuscitate a complete failure in collective conservative bargaining, Next we will see Joe divining the future by tossing the moss laden bones of Ayn Rand into the air, let them fall where they may, and predict, Cassandra-like, the destruction of the Trojans at the hands of a wooden horse, a poll and the general vein of discontent this country now harbors and HAS habored since 9/11.
We tend to think that Joe is a the Lorax, protecting that one lone tree, in fact, he has described himself in Theodore Weisman, Dr Seuss-like terms, he is the champion of protecting the status quo; forever tied to the limelight be it on Democrat or Republican. You don't hear Arlen Specter braying in such stentorian bass gong tones, but St Joe? can't resist the mike, no more dangerous place to be, than between Joe Lieberman and the microphone of singularity.
His heartfeld mea culpa, only shy a hair shirt, post the election, his coming home to the Democratic party, after campaigning so hard for a loser, brought tears to my eyes; of course I was cutting onions at the time, but I digress. Joe's ability to latch onto a losing battle, be it Democratic or Republican is stunningly obvious in it's self promotion and ego-centricity. Joe has the ability to stand apart, because in his world, grabbing what others have started, and then standing alone to claim the work (including the hard work of Republicans with their death panels, collective national socialistic warnings of communism abound in the form of a public option) only lends itself to worship at the altar of Joe's genius; and his definition of genius is the capacity to avoid hard work.
Joe has done nothing, of importance, in fact his tepid and lukewarm attempts at a Homeland Security department only allowed the marketeers to study tapes of supermarket shoppers to determine what sugar-laden, chemically infused breakfast cereal they might buy. Of course, once in a while, someone does come along and buy a shit load of hydrogen peroxide, but truly Joe's contribution to the world of marketing has been vast and fruitful, all under the guise of homeland security,
:Let's go back farther to his "cap and trade" agreements, whereas companies that built new power plants, could assume older ones and trade their good deeds for profits, without ever having to scrub those thirty and forty year old stacks, now spewing heavy metals and toxins into the atmosphere, cap and trade, a Joe Lieberman original.
My most cherished memory is Joe standing outside Sikorsky Aircraft, a real gem of a company, along with the Jailhouse Rock a Billy, John Rowland, decrying the cutting of funding on tha Apache, he spoke and then scooted right back to Washington, While Dodd petitioned the Polish Air Force, to equip their F-16's with recon equipment, jointly developed by Goodrich and yes, you guessed it, Sikorsky Aircraft. And there was that lucrative helicopter deal that Dodd brought to Sikorsky courtesy of the Canadian Air Force, Joe was too busy, he was back in Washington, getting ready to hop a bus for the Straight Talk express.
Yes, Joe's a stand up kind of guy; he stands up for himself, no one else, and if you believe he's a maverick, just look whose coattails he's attached his multi-talented suckers to;
Al Gore,
John McCain
Why with friends like Joe, who needs incompetent synchophants?
Regards
Pace
