Wow!  Even George W. couldn't be that irony-challenged, or could he?

Greg - have to assume that White House PR types uttered a few choice words hearing the Brownie phrase about doing a heck of a job.
A Katrina special - so good for the polls!

Of course, W wants him to stay until the end of his term - W likes stupid people around - makes him feel right at home.

Well, if we must choose between Rumsfeld and Lieberman - as the rumor mill suggests - then I vote for Rumsfeld.  Joe Lieberman must be stopped!

Lieberman's latest exercise in arrogant, condescending and  self-righteous self-promotion is his most shocking and deplorable move yet.  In moves of jaw-dropping audacity and betrayal, he basically swore public allegience this week to George Bush, and sought to publicly humiliate the vast majority of his party.  He has been openly providing the administration with political help, and has allowed them to use his name in a series of sorry testimonials.  His proposed "war cabinet" would reinvigorate the flagging ideological agenda of the Bush foreign policy, weaken the Democratic opposition, and provide priceless political cover for Bush -  and would no doubt elevate Joe's own national profile even further.  This dangerous and imperious moral narcissist and limelight seeker is clearly uncomfortable with his party affiliation, and has undisguised contempt for all his fellow party members outside the tiny circle of Democratic neocons.

It strikes me that Joe has an even dimmer and more fantastical grasp on global events than Rumsfeld. With Lieberman, we would get all the global incompetence of Rumsfeld with twice the ideology and moral fanaticism.  We wouldn't even get a change in the notorious Rumsfeld policies in the interrogation, torture and imprisonment, since good old Joe has clearly signaled his support for this aspect of administration policy as well.  He is likely to escalate the bloodbath in Iraq.

The worst thing is that a Lieberman appointment at defense would be presented as a conciliatory move toward the center by Bush, when in fact it would be a move toward the right and toward the zealots.  It would in fact be a step back from the marginally improved realism of the administration approach under Rice, and a return to the full-blown neoconservatism of 2002 and 2003.  But since Lieberman is a Democrat, his appointment would probably be greeted with cheer by much of the national media, and my other suckers who don't pay attention.

We have to stop this "Joementum" in its tracks now.  Enough is enough with this guy.