Senator Cruz sure knows how to stir the proverbial pot, doesn't he? And just think: Now he's going to be in the majority:
Senator Ted Cruz said Monday that he thinks former Senator Joe Lieberman would be a good choice to replace outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel....
"One strong option would be former Senator Joe Lieberman, a member of the president's own party with deep experience and unshakable commitment to the security of the United States," Cruz told Politico. "I urge the president to give him full and fair consideration for this critical position."
I would certainly have no problem with a Lieberman Obamagon nomination. Sure, Liebs is a lefty, he voted for ObamaCare, etc. But he's also a throwback/anachronism to a time, half a century or more in the past, when Democrats were actually capable of being patriots, when politics really did stop at the water's edge, and when the term "Donk hawk" wasn't the cue to hit the laugh track.
Which, of course, is why The One will never appoint him. If he wanted a patriot and a hawk, he could have stuck with Chuck Hagel (who was neither, but we're talking appearances here). Remember that Barack Obama is not a "lame duck" and he no longer needs to pretend to be the American president he is not and has never been. And remember what Joe Lieberman is: white, male, Jewish, and the man who got drummed out of his own party in 2006. All things that Red Barry loathes with a Ferguson-fiery passion. It would be tantamount to bringing an enemy into the "White House's insular foreign policy team". And we know what O does with enemies, don't we? He punishes them, he does not reach out to them.
Does anybody seriously believe his imperial majesty wants this showing up on a memo to Susan Rice?:
"Some terrible things could happen . . . for us if [Obama] doesn't turn it around," Lieberman said. "If you wanted to get a sense of imagining without too much of the horrific about what the world would look like without active American leadership, look at the world today.
"It's not collapsing, but as my friend said, it seems to be going to hell."
No, he does not.
But Senator Cruz knows that. He's just trying to muddy the waters and make a Michele Flournoy cram-down more complicated. It's the kind of thing one can do when in the majority.
Ted already had a big oar as it was. Too bad he's afraid to use it, huh?
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