When news broke yesterday that Lieberman would back a Republican filibuster against health care my instant reaction was “so”. As I continued seeing the blogs go haywire over the news my reaction changed a bit, from “so” to “so what”.
Did anyone really expect Joe Lieberman, the man who was side by side on the campaign trail with John McCain, to support this legislation? If they did then they must have been asleep the last 4 years.
People think Lieberman is unpredictable, but to the contrary that’s exactly what he is – very predictable. Everything Joe does is about Joe. He hasn’t had his name in the news for awhile, so he was suffering from AWDD (Attention Whore Deficit Disorder). To overcome that Joe had to rush out and make news. “Oh I will filibuster health care, but I really don’t want to”. Whaaaa.
The best way to deal with Lieberman is to not deal with him. He’s like a stray dog. Once you feed him he will keep coming back. The food of choice for Joe? Attention.
Everyone please just ignore Joe. He is not worth our energy. By expressing all this outrage towards his much predictable announcement yesterday, you are doing nothing but feeding the beast.