I could blame Joe Lieberman for deciding to take a week off starting Monday but it would be unfair. I’m doing that for other reasons–my computer will be, intentionally, in a different place for that week.

   But, reading this crap reminds me why it will be good riddance when Lieberman rides off into retirement after next year so he can cash in as a corporate lobbyist:

Sen. Joe Lieberman plans to unveil a deficit reduction bill as early as next week based on the Simpson-Bowles fiscal commission’s work.

   It’s actually fitting: a man who has been so associated with awful positions–in favor of the Iraq War, religious moralizing about culture, a shill for insurance industry CEOs–is not trying to wrap his hands around another truly awful concept. As the anchor drags down the failed Catfood Commissions I and II, hopefully it can take with it the soon-to-be ex-Senator from Connecticut.