The time has come for President Barack Obama to recognize the important accomplishments of Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. He should appoint Joe Lieberman to, well, just about anything. Surely there are some ambassadorships still available to loyal "with us on everything but the war" Senators like Joe Lieberman.

This is funny -- watch Joe Lieberman describe his exit from the Democratic Party because it was dominated by extremists, just like Arlen Specter's Pennsylvania GOP primary is dominated by extremists. Then Norah O'Donnell asks RGJoe why Arlen didn't run as a GOP, then after he lost the primary, run as an independent like RGJoe did in Connecticut after his loss to Ned Lamont.

From the Hill: Lieberman, the self-described independent Democrat who questioned Obama’s credentials to serve as commander in chief during the 2008 campaign, has panned the Obama administration’s proposal to cut the nation’s missile defense shield. Lieberman’s opposition is problematic for the Obama administration because he is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, the panel charged with assessing threats to the nation. AAAAAAUGHHHHHHHHH*%@#!!~$%#@&^%$#@#$%#%^!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe meet Avigdor. . . I'm sure you'll get along just fine. Joe's advice that Avigdor may run into a few problems, however.

Lieberman's numbers in Connecticut are in the tank.   In a head-to-head race Dick Blumenthal would beat him 58% to 30%.  His approval rating with Democrats in his own state is 21/70 -- he has to get with the program or face an electoral wipeout in 2012.  The Ryan Grim article Klein links to says he only came in  at the end of the negotiations, in time to take credit and get his face before the camera. 

That's the Lieberman you can count on.

Suddenly, conservatives are responding to my old "Can we Impeach?" emails.

Newly-named Napolitano Department of Homeland Security spokebot Sean Smith tried to create the illusion of an illegitimate victory by Democratic Senate challenger Ned Lamont in August 2006 when he invented spurious charges of website-hackery and sold them to Villager media gasbags like Chris Matthews.

Joe Lieberman's campaign manager, Sean Smith, who accused Ned Lamont of hacking their website the day of the Connecticut primary in 2006, has been selected to be the spokesperson at the Department of Homeland Security.

Five weeks before Jeff Merkley spoke of the Obama spirit of reconciliation during the Senate Democratic caucus meeting that eventually voted 42-13 to allow Joe Lieberman to keep his Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee gavel, Lieberman donated $5,000 to incumbent Oregon GOP Senator Gordon Smith's reelection

There is a lot of worry and uncertainty here in the liberal blogosphere about just how centrist President Obama will be. Should we be worried that he's keeping Robert Gates on as SecDef, or that Rahm is his Chief Of Staff, or that Larry Summers is his senior economics adviser, or should we be encouraged by appointments like Christina Romer and Peter Orszag and (maybe) Tom Daschle?