• LIEBERMAN-REID MEETING RESULTS IN NOTHING OF ANY VALUE: Harry Reid’s detention hour with Joe Lieberman has ended with “no decisions made.” This is Reid’s standard declaration when he knows he’s about to capitulate on something. And of course, Lieberman is being an asshole now and trying to control the conversation, saying that an end to “partisanship” is one of “the standards I will use in considering the options that I have before me.” Oh fuck off and join the GOP already. Who cares about filibusters. Just leave. Leave and go get gay-married to Lindsey Graham in Connecticut. [TPM Election Central]

Everyone point and laugh at him now, for he has erred, my friends, and now the principal is tugging him by the ear into detention to try his War Crimes: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will meet with Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman this afternoon to discuss the wayward Democrat’s future in light of his enthusiastic support of Republican Sen. John McCain’s presidential candidacy.” Unfortunately Harry Reid is the disciplinarian here, so somehow the meeting will end with Lieberman firing him. (Which is fine.) What really needs to happen, though, is for Barack Obama to beat the shit out of that rancid twatwaffle Lieberman on the Senate floor again. [WSJ]

Oh ho ho, Joe Lieberman is getting it now! His total divorce with the Democratic party commenced yesterday when his legislative director up and quit on the first working day after the Republican convention, and today we have witnessed SEVERE ESCALATION. In the most “Harry Reidish” move ever, Harry Reid has brutally punished Lieberman by BANNING HIM FROM WEEKLY CAUCUS LUNCHES. Those Democratic leaders, they sure know how to shake a stick. “Now he’ll have to pack his own goddamn lunch,” Reid said, except he didn’t. [Roll Call]

May we please have a major politician with even slightly interesting taste in music? Is that too much to ask? Another week, another politician’s iPod filled with the Stones (once again, we ask: No “Midnight Rambler?” “Under My Thumb” would be pretty funny, right? Can we please find out that Laura Bush has “Mother’s Little Helper” on her workout playlist?), the token Motown classics, and, of course, the fucking Eagles. And U2, cementing their position as the modern Eagles, but even more boring. MORE »

* Duke Cunningham gets the longest sentence ever given to a congressman: 8 years and 4 months. MORE »

Congrats to Randy “Duke” Cunningham for entering the history books with the longest jail term ever given to a Congressman: 8 years, 4 months. All this for a little graft? It’s getting so a guy can’t make a dishonest living anymore. MORE »