But alas no, Gentle Reader(s). I was plowing through Google Reader this morning and came upon these two gems, both of which are just too good not to share.
From the "Please quit talking" category, The Hill yesterday reported that Joe Lieberman is "now praising Obama" in the wake of his national security team selections. This is, I am sure, completely unrelated to Lieberman having been allowed to keep his Homeland Security chairmanship at Obama's urging. From his Republican convention speech to this:I applaud President-elect Obama for assembling a talented and bipartisan national security team. ... At a moment in history when our nation faces both great dangers and great opportunities in our foreign relations, the President-elect has begun to build an administration that can lead America forward on the world stage with purpose and principle.
And, from the "And all this time I thought Ron Paul was the craziest candidate for office" category, this guy wants to be appointed to fill Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat -- for two years, until Chelsea is old enough to run. His blog is not to be believed (and is a must-skim), and apparently he's spamming countless political writers and bloggers with his request to be a self-appointed Charlie McCarthy of sorts:I surely cant make things any worse, now can i? and I DO WANT THAT OFFICE IN THE BASEMENT. THERES BENEFITS TO LIVING IN A BUNKER I THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES...Um, OK.
the US Constitution says a Senator must be 30 yrs old to run for Senate. sorry, chelsea- you miss this opportunity by 2 years. but wait-ALL IS NOT LOST! ...
watch me drink this kool-aid- my lips never move!
if i was a surrogate- served for 2 years, then promptly resignED to ms. clinton....meanwhile- follow her every order to the letter..Hillary too!
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Yikes. I wonder, though, if he's on to something with his desire to live/work/exist in a basement bunker. Sounds kinda nice right about now. Quiet, cozy, controlled, etc.
Yikes...politicking never ceases to amaze me! From Obama with zero experience getting elected to Hillary as Secretary of State and an Army General as Secretary of Education...I don't get it!
When does it all end? When can we return to our American way of life? If Obama keeps his database of volunteers to use while in the White House, does that mean he will continue campaigning since that is all he has done for years? Yikes! Hopefully, no!
Yikes. I love right-wing politics disguised as forced irony most when it's delivered anonymously on a blog post that isn't really all that political.
Yikes. It must have been the Ron Paul comment that set Anonymous off. All his "supporters" seem to be so thin-skinned.
I don't think it's Lieberman's behavior that is surprising here. As evidence I submit the following:
"PRAISE FOR OBAMA’S 'first-rate economic team' from Karl Rove."
"What would you call a group of economists who are skeptical of regulating mortgage markets, who think unemployment insurance and unions increase unemployment, who say that tax hikes retard economic growth, and who believe that the recovery from the Great Depression was a monetary phenomenon rather than the result of New Deal fiscal policy? No, it is not a right-wing cabal. It's Team Obama."
"Leaving the Bush tax cuts alone. Putting Iraq-war supporters in as Vice President and Secretary of State. And now keeping Bush’s Defense Secretary on. I’m beginning to feel like I won this election!"
I take everything Karl Rove says with a huge grain of salt, given his clear agenda. Which was my point, sort of, with Lieberman. He was willing to criticize the Dems when it was expedient, and now that it's expedient that he hang on to his chairmanship, he's back with them.
Well, my linking wasn't very clear but Karl Rove was only responsible for the first quote. The second is some Harvard economics professor and the third is Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit who's sorta moderate libertarian.
My point was more that Lieberman's postitive comments about Obama's team selections are echoed by other, say, non-Obama-supporters, and it might be less about Lieberman criticizing and then coming back than about Obama moving in a different direction than he indicated while he was campaigning.
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