In other words, prior to this decison, he wasn’t an honest broker? The truth shall set you free–or vice versa.

LOL

“new purpose under Heaven for him”

K Street, consultant to medical industrial complex, or home studio courtesy of Fox?

Hadassah hopes the grandkids are quiet. Introduces “Joey”

Finally. . . . Lieberwomen clad in red. . .

One kid taken offstage after startled by applause.

“It’s not easy on the spouses…”

Both of them, Joe?

McCain: Hopes Obama considers Lieberman for defense secretary

Tennessee is a name of one of the grandchildren?

Is that Yiddish?

swan song for this old chestnut?:

“my contempt for Joe Lieberman will never subside”.

Drinks for all where’s Jane :)

It leaves “short ride” the ability to be completely open about his pushing for the big insurance corps and being the #1 rep of israel in the senate. He can go out on his own terms and take a position that will allow his wife to keep on being an unregistered lobbyist.

I didn’t think that he would run again because the people of CT have waked up to what he is and would have voted him out. I just didn’t think that he would announce so soon.

… and we’re back to the cold-water flat upbringing.

Lobbier-man: must be the season of the pitch.

Is McCain saying Obama will win a second term? LIEberman doesn’t retire until the end of 2012, right? Which could also be the end of Obummer’s short time as preznit.

“Most satisfying moments of public service are those that get no publicity whatsoever.”

hahahahahaha

He will quote Ecclesiastes — the passage: ‘To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under Heaven.’

So then the Time of Joe the time of Evil is over? What purpose does Evil serve except to help create the Lefty blogs when we were much smaller?

9/11/01 !

Maybe this will free up some time for him to run as Democratic Vice-President again.

Ya know, Joe, Senators don’t really serve “under” Presidents.

Joe serves the public when? When has he served when it wasn’t politically helpful for him to do so? But no publicity Bwahahaha! Joe has had a satisfying moment of public service:)

MT @GlennThrush: Joe Lieberman, further endearing himself to the Obama folks, starts retirement presser just as the POTUS-Hu event begins

http://twitter.com/#!/Todd_Zwillich/status/27785512320241664

Straight line between JFK and Joe, he says.

MSNBC and CNN have now cut away from gasbag Joe. . .

So FDL going to run a collection of best Joe Posts just to remind us of the good old days and give reporters an easy place to get material?
We know reporters are lazy five minute google searches to confirm facts seem to be to much for NY times writers.

Somehow I can’t see John Kennedy doing anything other than laughing at Joe’s sanctimony and prudish nature.

This tells us that the Blue Dogs do expect to lose more seats next election. Obama how is that third way surrender strategy working out for you? I thought that we would have to Primary challenge the Blue Dogs.

“I have never shied from a good fight and I never will.”

Um….

15 campaigns in Connecticut, not counting the national campaigns.

Enables me to spend the next two years getting things done in the Senate, not the end of my public service.

Waiting for the internal feed from Letterman …

“stay engaged and involved” after 2013.

Buh-bye LIEberman… a little too late, but better than never to see the last your sorry prunish nasty shriveled face/heart.

Thanks his undefeated campaign manager.

Um….

Thanks everyone again, now talking about Huck and Jim’s optimism around every bend. Heroes in Afghanistan and Iraq, wounded Iraq War heroes at Walter Reed.

All wounded by your support for a war based on a lie, Joe.

Waiting for him to break into song. I’m thinking “What I did for love,” but maybe “Games People Play,” or “It’s Hard Out There for a Pimp.”

AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Greg Levine:

Lieberman is the last tattered remnant of the post war fascist quilt that was completed by William Buckley et al after the demise of Richard Nixon and the Viet Nam War. That doesn’t mean that the old oligarchy is diminished, it just means that the Southern and Western oil and slave faction that lost their fight with the Northeastern banks over a permanent war in SE Asia but won control of the new corporate security state is dying away. The old bankin’ powers, however, are stronger than ever and the old “moderate” corporate Republican Party is bein’ resurrected behind Obama and the empty shell of the Democratic Party.

So goodbye to Joe Likuderman and hello to David Rockefeller Petraeus our once General of the Army and now future President.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THE WAR IS HOME NOW AND WE MUST FIGHT IT!!

Oh, Happy Day. I am concerned about the damage he can do just for the hell of it in the next 2 years. He’s such a spiteful POS.

Waiting for him to break into song. I’m thinking “What I did for love,” but maybe “Games People Play,” or “It’s Hard Out There for a Pimp.”

I choked on a Sun Chip when I read that last one. Well played, sir.

I think his power will rapidly diminish in the Senate; he’s not used that all-important gavel to hold any hearings on Katrina, war contracting, or cost overruns throughout government. People who serve with him will be moving on.

But two years from now? The Versailles media platitudes will be lying around deep, thick, and oily when he finally retires. Of course, he’s taken care to say he’s ending ‘this chapter’ but I am sure would jump at the chance to serve as head of Defense or Justice — regardless of who is elected president in 2012.

A poor yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction.–Ecclesiastes 4:13

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.–Ecclesiastes 1:15

And then the one about “All is vanity…”

Wait: I’m going to need a moment to regain my composure.
OK, that’s long enough.

Hey Holy Joe: Please don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

I want him to just go away. I can’t stand that saggy, baggy face and that whining voice. His self righteous demeanor just makes me gag.

Photo: “Hu Jintao: FAILED Leader“

Citizen Greg Levine:

Did Likuderman really compare himself to JF fuckin’ K??? My God, if this filthy,snot-drippin’, knuckl-draggin’ corporate bagman ends up anywhere close to government again, let alone in a Democratic administration then there must be a real revolution that throws the entire ruling class into Leavenworth after they have all been sterilized!!

Lieberman represents the worst of what the “center” in American politics means. No principles, no convictions, no thought of representing your constituents as they elected you to do so.
http://www.sunstateactivist.org

Norse, I have an intermediate solution: carbonite.

but I am sure would jump at the chance to serve as head of Defense or Justice

That’s just flat-out scary…

And, such an announcement on the heels of “FCC approves Comcast takeover of NBC-Universal.” Notice these two events timed on Hu’s arrival?

I’d rather have a sharp stick in my eye than listen to one second of this bastard.

You are on fire today, Teddy. How long before he takes a job with a pharmaceutical company?

Two things:

1) Betcha Lieberman tries to get on a ticket with somebody like Bloomberg, just to see if he can give the Dems another black eye by guaranteeing President Huckabee.

2) Always remember than Mister Bipartisan Civility Hankie owes his Senate seat to the white-hot, partisan, hate-filled revenge jones of national Republicans wanting to make an example of Lowell Weicker for having done the right thing during Watergate. It took them fourteen years, but they finally found an alleged Democrat conservative enough for them to hold their noses and elect over Weicker.

Nah, that’s Hadassah’s job. I see him co-hosting a show with Juan Williams on FOX.

Juan Cole captures the evil essence of Holy Joe Lieberman in his list of top ten horrible things that he has done to us while in office:

10. Undermined Jeffersonian ideals by joining with George W. Bush to throw government money to religious organizations.

9. Revived, with Lynn Cheney, McCarthyite techniques in order to harass and intimidate university professors who dared attempt to explain the historical and political context for the rise of al-Qaeda and its attacks on the United States. He even put out a blacklist of 40 university professors and administrators, including the President of Wesleyan University.

8. In 2004, revived the war-mongering, militarizing, anti-progressive ‘Committee on the Present Danger‘ to fight the anti-war movement and keep the US in Iraq, as well as to promote war on Iran.

7. Deprived Democrats of the votes to pass a single-payer option universal health care law, acting as client of big Medicine instead of looking out for ordinary people.

6. Called Israeli’s pre-planned assault on defenseless little Gaza in 2008-2009 “self defense” on Israel’s part.

5. Intimidated Amazon into ceasing to allow Wikileaks to be hosted on its servers, even though Wikileaks is not proven to have done anything illegal. Urged that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange be prosecuted for espionage.

4. Urged prosecution of the New York Times for publishing US State Department cables given to the NYT by Wikileaks, despite the precedent of the Pentagon Papers.

3. Joined, in 2002, the Neoconservative ‘Committee for the Liberation of Iraq’ to get up a war of aggression on that country on false pretenses. His war killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and over 4000 US troops, threw Iraq into long-term instability, and made Iran a regional superpower.

2. Repeatedly called from 2006 for aggression against Iran by the US Air Force.

And drum roll please,

1. Defected to the Republicans in 2008 and tried to make Sarah Palin Vice President of the United States, saying ‘everyone should listen to Sarah Palin.’

http://www.juancole.com/2011/01/top-ten-horrible-things-done-to-us-by-outgoing-sen-joe-lieberman.html#comments

Blue Texan’s regularly scheduled post is up: Gallup: 70% of Americans Think Obama Hasn’t Brought About Enough Change

NMAWorldEdition: “Hu Rocks D.C.“

“where have you gone, Joe Damage, yo:
A nation turns its lonely eyes from you
woo woo woo”

{ BWA HA HA HA ! }

Tel Aviv to lose its senator? Surely not.

I’ll just excerpt from a comment I made over on Bradblog:

The hot air being blown on the blogs about Lieberman “retiring” is a classic example. “The voters have run him out of office before the elections have even started!” and similar BS.

In fact Lieberman has performed admirably the job that our owners wished and Obama etc placed him to do. He will be richly rewarded and will be allowed to further serve in any of a variety of positions both political and corporate (big difference, right?)

Both Lieberman and his wife have been paid for by many corporations.

Good riddance.

Joe Lieberman, denied the VP post he won by the SCOTUS coup of 2000 that installed Bush, then spent the decade not opposing that illegitimate and incompetent president, but rubberstamping him.

Take a hike, Joe!

– Balkingpoints / www

The big thinkg that bowing out now does for him is that anyone who wants to influence him has now been officially notified that he doesn’t consider himself beholden to his constituents any more and the revolving door is officially open for spinning.

Go away, little churl
Go away, little churl
It’s hurting me more each minute that you delay
When you are near me like this
You’re much too hard to miss
Go away, little churl
Go away, little churl
Please go away little churl before I beg you to disappear.

That’s actually Ecclesiasticus 1:1. Completely appropriate, though.

yessssss

TSF!

Liberman sold his soul to the MHI and secured the deaths of thousands in the process. He knows it. He knew he would be unelectable after he played this well paid for hand. Next stop, a penthouse ceo office for Big Cancer, or Big Pharma, or Big Medical.

But don’t you know these are all signs that Obama needs to move to the center. (Barf)

As if he hasn’t been dead past the center to the right since he got in. Bankers running the WH is not my Democratic party, it is a bunch of rightwingers period.

Coming from someone as crooked as Senator Joe, there’s only one way for me to take that statement.