| Description | Joe “Collywobble” Lieberman, the worst human being since Abraham Lincoln, is featured in a terrifying New York Times mini-profile for tomorrow’s edition in which — and maybe this is just us? — we detect a little bit of venom on the reporters’ pens, as their editors force them to speak to and write about this rancid, catastrophic mass of pimple pus, frozen diarrhea, and the cloned membranes and bone marrow of Beelzebub and Pol Pot, respectively. How do you write about this person objectively? How do you sit in a room, watch him grin, and not spontaneously combust?
WASHINGTON — Just the thought of Joseph I. Lieberman makes some Democrats want to spit nails these days. But Mr. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, is not the least troubled by his status as Capitol Hill’s master infuriator.
In fact, he could not be happier. He is right where he wants to be — at the center of the political aisle, the center of the Democrats’ efforts to win 60 votes for their sweeping health care legislation. In short, he is at the center of everything and he loves it.
“My wife said to me, ‘Why do you always end up being the point person here?’ ” he said, flashing a broad grin in an interview on Monday.
Ha ha, you stupid readers, we just wanted you to have to suffer through rage-induced ulcers, too. They hurt, don’t they? Is there some sort of medicine for them? Maybe, but who can afford medicine! |
