Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) on the Senate floor. At the full moon, he shapeshifts into a crying baby.You know that feeling you get when someone says "I just wanna be with you," and you realize later that what they really meant was "I'm drunk, and I have no interest in dating you long-term, but I'd really like to continue sleeping with you and accepting your emotional validation until I find someone who I really want to commit to and/or you have nothing left to give. Oh, and pick up some cigs on the way over?" And you're like, "Well, I probably should have figured that out sooner." It's the same duh feeling you had when you found out balloon boy was a hoax. Well, that's how I'm feeling about the uproar over this whole 'Joe Lieberman shocks everyone by being a douchebag about the public option' business. 

I mean, look at J.Lieb's track record: How quickly everyone seems to have forgotten how he not only endorsed John McCain but also stoked wingnut fears that Obama was a terrorist and communist planted by the Weather Underground. After Obama won anyway, because no one wanted to vote for a senile, egomaniacal sexist of ACORN, and insisted that everyone play nice with little Joey, the weasel basically wanted to be bffs! At least on Facebook. Behind the scenes, he's been acting like the same old slimeball, moving forward with legislation to hold hearings on Obama's "czar problem." This is the perfect example of someone who really didn't get  what Mean Girls was trying to tell us.

My point is that we should not be surprised. Sure, he's acting like a jerk with a terribly shortsighted view of what's good for for the people whose interests he's supposed to serve. But for those of us who wasted our time thinking that Joe Lieberman is going to stop being such an asshole, we have only ourselves to blame for the disappointment we now feel. 

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