Lieberman is so flirting with jumping parties

[Rose Siding]

There's a revealing article about Joe in the New Yorker. He really has us where he wants us-

“A lot of Democrats are essentially pacifists and somewhat isolationist,” he told me. He had particular problems with Senator Edward Kennedy’s proposal to deny the President funding for a troop surge, and with an idea recently raised by the senior senator from Connecticut, Christopher Dodd, to cap the number of American soldiers in Iraq. Lieberman was not willing to say whether he would remain a Democrat if the Party cut off funding for the war. “That would be stunning to me,” he said. “And very hurtful. And I’d be deeply affected by it. Let’s put it that way.”

Yeah, let's put it that way. And we ALL know what little Joe does when he gets hurt. It's a big FU to dems. If Democrats in the Senate ever fight the way we want them to, Joe's gonna bolt. I think they have to figure him into every move they make.

And boy howdy, does Joe ever love him some Commander Codpiece. He told this reporter...

“I’ve had a lot of disappointments along the way here,” Lieberman said. “So why do I trust President Bush in spite of the mistakes that were made, consequential mistakes? Because having watched him, having talked to him, I believe that he understands the life-and-death struggle we are in with the most deadly and unconventional enemy, Islamic extremism. And that he has shown himself, notwithstanding all these mistakes, willing to go forward with what he believes is right for the security of the country, regardless of what it has done to his popularity.”

Joe's version of "I've looked into his soul". Here's a spooky part-

“Lieberman likes expressions of American power. A few years ago, I was in a movie theatre in Washington when I noticed Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, a few seats down. The film was “Behind Enemy Lines,” in which Owen Wilson plays a U.S. pilot shot down in Bosnia. Whenever the American military scored an onscreen hit, Lieberman pumped his fist and said, “Yeah!” and “All right!”

Spooky in a "gee, the junior senator from CT sure is a little bloodthirsty" kind of way. Whether he's in the security of a dark theater or the well of the Senate, Lieberman's far removed from the battles he cheers. He's just another old man sending others to their deaths. SOS.

Bonus fun:
Joe: “I have so many good friends in the Senate. John McCain is a very good friend.” McCain, his very good friend, the article goes on to report, suggested "one explanation for Lieberman’s obdurate support for the President was politics. Lieberman, he implied, had invested too much in his advocacy of the war to back away now." So, according to his "friend" Joe's only in it to save face. BFF!