• Matt Yglesias dabbles in some parliamentary role playing. [Matt Yglesias]
• A thousand years from now, historians will agree that Barack Obama was the worst military strategist of all time. They will write heavily footnoted volumes about how even Bo could beat Barack in a simple game of Stratego. Yes. Barack Obama is a disgrace to America’s proud military might. [RedState]
• The port-drinking snooty-britches at Oxford quite nearly made “teabagger” the Most Beguiling Word Of The Year. [Think Progress]
• The terrible SEIU surrounded Joe Lieberman’s home and cut his power and teepeed his lawn and now who will rescue poor, fragile Joe Lieberman? Who will save him from these godless brutes? [Gateway Pundit]
• The Weekly Standard curates a Chinese “Flaming Barack Obama” exhibit. [Weekly Standard]

By the Comics Curmudgeon
Hey, kids, remember your civics class, where you learned that there are other parts of the government that aren’t currently controlled by Muslims? There’s the so-called “Supreme Court,” which everyone ignores most of the time right up until they legalize gayness; but then there’s this other thing, whaddya call it, Congress, and there’s like dozens and dozens of those jackholes, so even though they aren’t “worse” than President Antichrist on an individual level, there are more of them, so it kind of balances out! Anyway, one half of Congress just passed some crazy-ass law last week. How did they manage to do this? Simple: DEVIL MAGIC. MORE »

Now listen, Joe Lieberman doesn’t want to ascribe any motives to Nidal Malik Hasan. “It’s premature to reach conclusions about what motivated him,” Lieberman very reasonably said on some Fox News teevee something or other last night. But! But! Lieberman will say this: Hasan was a “self-radicalized, homegrown terrorist” who “had turned to Islamist extremism.” He will say that.  Islamist extremism: or perhaps you might recognize it by its street name? “TERRORISM“, also “bennies,” “black beauties,” “crystal,” “Sy Hershey kisses,” and “pep pills.” Anyway, Lieberman intends to launch some congressional investigation, because that’s what he does, and because that will get to the root of this terrorism once and for all. [The Hill]

So nine martyr-combatants stormed and briefly occupied the office of Joe Lieberman this morning. After chanting about health care—”Everyone in and no one out, universal health care now!” and “Represent Connecticut, not AETNA!”—they were dragged away and arrested. MEANWHILE: We have not yet heard from Editor Jim Newell this morning! [TPM]

Here’s vulgar, fecal replicant Joe Lieberman on this week’s CBS Sunday morning program. It does not take him long to make a unequivocally illogical and terrible argument while patronizing the dirty hippies. He does not understand how the public option has become a “litmus test” for the left, when there are so many other good things in the bill… which is why the inclusion of a public option has become an ironclad “litmus test” for him to vote against it? He then invokes the Hippocratic Oath, like a dick. [Think Progress]

Now Meghan McCain is going to defend Joe Lieberman! No do not groan, this will be great! You know, at some point, someone will presumably let Meghan McCain in on the Meghan McCain “in-joke.” This will be a very sad day. Exhibit A, from beautiful, young Meg’s Daily Beast column: “I find it especially ironic that most of those who criticize Senator Lieberman more often than not have never run for elected office. But as the old saying goes, those that can’t do, criticize.” This is like… the rhetorical equivalent of an MC Escher drawing done in lipstick. MORE »

• NOW WHO IS THIS UPSTANDING DIGNIFIED SENATOR?: “[People] are fed up — frustrated and fed up and angry about the way in which our government does not work, about the way in which we come down here and get into a lot of political games and seem to — partisan tugs of war and forget why we’re here, which is to serve the American people. And I think the filibuster has become not only in reality an obstacle to accomplishment here, but it also a symbol of a lot that ails Washington today.” That’s… Joe Lieberman! From 1994, when he tried to pass legislation watering down the filibuster. We’d like to think Joe will get grilled with these quotes when he appears on the CBS show Sunday morning, but he’ll probably just be asked to explain why the Democrats are so reckless, with the money and deficits and partisanship. [HuffPo]

Joe Lieberman, who is of course with the Democrats on every issue except The War, just keeps talkin’ his Joe Lieberman trash: “I probably will support some Republican candidates for Congress or Senate in the election in 2010. I’m going to call them as I see them.” Fine, campaign for whoever, who cares? But maybe, in exchange for that, he could VOTE WITH HIS PARTY ON A FREAKING PROCEDURAL MOTION INSTEAD OF NOT DOING THAT. Goodness. Someone just get it over with and throw in a $10 million earmark to build the Joe Lieberman Museum of Accomplishments & High-Tech Masturbatorium in Stamford, which is all he’s ever wanted. Meanwhile, thank you to our fine contributing artist Lauri Apple for this very evil drawing of Joe Lieberman wearing a rat mask. [TPM]

• HARRY REID DIVESTS HIMSELF FROM BODILY PRISON: Harry Reid said the most awesome thing in a press conference a little while ago: “Joe Lieberman is the least of Harry Reid’s problems.” That’s you, though; you are Harry Reid! And what are Harry Reid’s other problems? Because Joe Lieberman seems to be a significant problem of Harry Reid’s. It’s the clap, isn’t it? You got the clap. Goddamnit, Harry Reid. We can’t have these distractions right now! Pull yourself together, man. [TPM]

If you’re interested in health care reform, and only have time today to get really really pissed off at one Congressional development, check out this bit of “Joementum” sweeping through the news: “Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) told reporters today that he would in fact filibuster any health care bill he doesn’t agree with–and right now, he doesn’t agree with the public option proposal making its way through the Senate.” THINKING VERY VIOLENT THOUGHTS. MORE »

So after Obama’s gay rights speech on Sunday, this LGBT White House person suggested that maybe everyone would try hitching a repeal of DADT to Joe Lieberman, a grape that rolled under a couch like 50 years ago and in the interim transformed into a malign raisin and also, somehow, a Senator from Connecticut. Why Lieberman? Um. MORE »