What Senator will we now mock for housing his office in a high-security Hartford financial services skyscraper? Who will we heckle and boo at the Democrats' next JJB Dinner? Who will tell us what video games are too violent and which wars are healthy?

I can wait to see who succeeds Lieberman as the newest bloviating, pompous politico, but I'll miss the proper villain Joe provided for progressives. Here was a good guy gone bad, a Benedict Joe who cost us the presidency, who was too cozy with big business and who even smooched GW Bush.

I know that Joe Lieberman hasn't even lost the primary yet, and we can't totally imagine a post-Joe Lieberman landscape until the Republicans settle on someone aside from Alan "Sleazy" Schlesinger.

And before wondering about a new blue (and maybe even Green) CT, before pondering how a Ned win might boost the Democrats' chances against incumbent Governor Joe-di Rell in November, remember that having Joe Lieberman in public office was good for one reason: any human as slimy as Lieberman has been during the past two decades needs to be watched like a hawk, if only to remind ourselves of how creepy, malleable, and murderous we in this Manson family morass called America can be.

Allowing Lieberman to slip out of the modern media microscope and into the lobbyist underworld won't neutralize or weaken his powers from the dark side of the Force. His wife Hadassah is already a strong overlord from the pharmaceutical universe.

To be sure what fate awaits our soon-to-be defeated junior senator, we only need study Darth Moffett, another leftist traitor.

Once a darling of Nader's Raiders, Toby Moffett parlayed his organizing skills into a Congressional seat. His fall from grace and honor and integrity began in office, and once he left the public eye, he shilled for frankenfood giant Monsanto.

That experience in multi-national corporate agribusiness primed him for greater political prostitution, and Moffett soon partnered in a lobbying firm with pimp Bob Livingston, the former Republican Speaker of the House toppled by Hustler magazine's hypocrite hunt during the Clinton impeachment imbroglio.

The Livingston Group is a multi-gazillion dollar Washington lobbying firm with clients like weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. With the government of Turkey also on Livingston's roster, Joe may find an opportunity to help the children of Ataturk strengthen their relationship with the descendants of David.

Or John Ashcroft's new lobbying firm could always use help from the man who wrote the legislation creating the Homeland Security Department.

Joe isn't a big enough roller to run with Adnan Kashoggi and Richard Perle over at Trireme Venture Capital, but I bet someone looking for a fistful in Iraq and Saudi Arabia might want to mop up Holy Joe's slime trail.

And let's suppose that the voting machines in 49 states aren't rigged, and Ned's win ushers in a Democratic majority in November in both chambers of the legislature, will the 110th Congress convene with a backbone?

Will California congresscritter Nancy Pelosi suddenly call for impeachment? Will Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold's motion for censure of President Bush pass? Will AIPAC – the American-Israeli Political Affairs Committee - stop controlling U.S. foreign policy?

I'm not holding my breath. And if the Bush Administration loses horribly in November, I'm expecting the executive branch to go on the offensive.

If the neo-con power grab was brazen with a complicit Republican majority, what bombast will Bush and Cheney employ to insure their dominion over a so-called opposition majority with subpoena power?

I don't figure that when I wake Wednesday, August 9, that electing Ned Lamont will have cut our carbon emissions overnight, built our mass transit systems in a week or so, nor withdraw us from Iraq within a fortnight.

The best I can hope for is that by eliminating Lieberman's soapbox, we will shift the dialogue slightly towards justice, so that ideas that we once thought 30 years from fruition will now be 20 years away, ideas that were a decade down the line can now happen in five, and those waiting patiently for five may now be doable within a year.

It's all about keeping your perspective.

7/26/06

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Who will these voters support when Joe Lieberman loses? Speculating about a Lieberman loss may be jumping the gun, but it's a fun one to jump.

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