The time has come for President Barack Obama to recognize the important accomplishments of Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. He should appoint Joe Lieberman to, well, just about anything. Surely there are some ambassadorships still available to loyal "with us on everything but the war" Senators like Joe Lieberman.
In an unexpected move, Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed the US Senate vacancy bill which takes away the governor’s power to appoint someone to a vacant US Senate seat.
The vacancy created by President Obama appointing Joe Lieberman to just-about-anything will now be filled by special election. There hasn’t been an appointed US Senator from Connecticut in 50 years, which means it’s time to take this shiny new law out for a test drive. Isn’t Obama still looking for an ambassador to The Holy See, and wouldn’t Holy Joe be the perfect fit?
“We are fortunate to live in a participatory democracy, where our people do indeed have a voice in how they are governed,” Rell said. “This law is consistent with my long-held belief that we should take every action possible to involve our citizens in their government.”
Time to find a new role for involving Citizen Lieberman in his government, wouldn’t you agree? Any recommendations for appointments the President should quickly consider for Joe?





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Isn’t Obama considering appointing an envoy to Syria?
Teddy !
I’d like for HoJo to be the U.S. Ambassador to New Mexico !
Or we could sic him on Putin and Medvedev
Oh, I don’t think Bill Richardson deserves that. But it’s an idea. Do you think Joe would fall for it?
He might … if we make Graham his Under Secretary …
We’ll offer to send the 3 Amigos bargain hunting in Oaxaca ! *g*
Not if Anything has anything to say about it.
LOL !!!
That’s just cold, man.
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Ambassador to Turkmenistan.
Special Terrorist Envoy to Palau — that way he can make sure those Uighers don’t slip into the US and murder us in our beds.
Leave it to Uigher
Why should we listen to the Anythingians? They will come to love Joe just as we have.
I warn you Teddy, if Lieberman comes, Anything goes.
Helicopter Ben’s term at the helm of the Fed is up soon, right?
Jeebus … are any of you watching Boner’s hissy fit on CSpan ?
Cold, cold you say? Ambassador to Finnland. (I figure he can’t do much harm there. But if he could, make it to Luxembourg.)
Ward, I’m worried about the Uighur!
This is why dermatologists tell you never to put Thompson’s Water Seal Wood and Deck Stain directly on your skin — it gets into your nervous system and Bad Things Happen.
707 !!!
Director of Homeland Security. Things just haven’t been the same since Chertoff.
Israel RULES!!!
:-) We need to think out of the box on this one. I’m suggesting Ambassador to Jupiter leaving from NASA asap.
(I really wanted to suggest Uranus, but thought it might be misinterpreted.)
:-) I change channels whenever he is introduced or when I catch a glimpse of him near a micophone.
Lotsa oil there, right? He could get his neocon buddies all excited about another war!
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Actually, given his warmongering, I would say Mars would be a much better fit, and I think we have some missions to mars in the pipe, just stick him on one of them.
Problem is, we haven’t yet conclusively proven that there is no life on Mars. We have to think about the possible effect of a Lieberexile on future diplomatic relations.
Orderly at Walter Reed Hospital.
Ambassador to the seventh circle of hell.
Mars, bitchez!
valet parking attendant specializing in fierce protection against handicap parking stall abuse.
Puma, good point, it could ruin our diplomatic relations for centuries.
And Punaise…. I’m sure that’s in his future — although I think it’s the 8th circle reserved for corrupt politicians and hypocrites. He’ll be much more at home there.
Ambassador to Palau. He can guard the “terrorists”
Or chauffeur for all those women just a “short-ride” from a hospital that provides full services
We’ve already learned you can’t trust a neocon in a stall…
Full of Number Two, that’s our Joe.
Uzbekistan would be a better fit; he’d be right at home in the capital city of Smarm-akand
DHS he might take.
but why move a mole when he is so useful where he is?
Obama chose him as a mentor in the Senate, and its probably working out great for them both, why change?
Freedionia would be good.
Joe thinks of himself as the father of DHS. But he’s much better placed to bottle up any investigations as head of the Senate committee. I’m just wondering if there’s any new challenge that might entice him away from the Senate.
or the Duchy of Grand Fenwick
Freedonia is a small country in eastern Europe (”Land of the Spree, & the Home of the Knave”) which is suffering from severe financial mismanagement & is on the verge of revolution.
Rufus T. Firefly, it’s most recent President, whose motto was “if you think this country’s bad off now/Just wait till I get through with it”
and Grand Fenwick is located in the Northern Alps and is also having financial problems
U.S. Special Envoy to Antarctica.
Ambassador to Latveria.
is that su-fee-lizard .. or suf-ee-liz-’ard ?? :)
don’t forget
PolandGenovia!Make him the President’s food taster. It’s a win-win appointment.
Oh, excellent. Do you think he would catch on before he headed out to the posting?
Ambassador to Iraq, obviously. Better than pumping his fists at war movies (see end of page 2), he could sit in the mega-embassy safely wanking to the real death and destruction outside the compound walls.
All we need to tell him is that the Latverian dictator poses an ongoing threat to the security of the free world. He’ll fall for it like a ton of bricks.
I can see it all now a Jew and a Roman Catholic sitting in the Vatican arguing over who put Christ on the cross! “It was you you dam Roman Catholic! No it was you you dam Jew and on and on and on…” they would never agree and that would keep both of them out of our hair till they died! God rest their merry souls..
Dam Edit saved me again….
Book Salon up at the Mothership with Nicholas Schmidle’s To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan hosted by Russ Wellen
The elegant part of this suggestion is that once Obama hires him as ambassador to Waziristan or Gaza – and after the special election is held and his replacement installed – Mr. Lieberman can then be told that his future is “to spend more time with his family”. That is, so long as Kneepads isn’t appointed to a lifetime position or one with a definite term. What’s not to like?
I suggest the nation mentioned more than once by his BFF, the old retread Magoo, during the last election. Czechoslovakia.
second the motion.
Or how about Chechnya?
Or Andorra?
Lichtenstein?
Chicago rules.
Ambassador to the vatican. /s
make him wear a funny hat too.
Or they could be co-ambassadors! Make it a FOX reality series: their silly adventures trying to find the country where they’ve been appointed to represent the USA.
amb-ASS-ADORE to the GOP?
Ambassador to Kazakhstan? (It’s a two-day trip from anywhere in the US. Via Frankfurt or Moscow, I understand.)
Or maybe ambassador to Mongolia ….
Antarctic works for me….. looking for the coldest place near hell
Very cold, very far away, very out of touch.
Commissioner of Sewers.
How about ambassador to Iraq, since thinks everything there is going so swimmingly.
I disagree. The Uigher detainees have experienced the “enhanced” interrogations of both Mainland China and the spanish inquisition tactics of our government. And most of them are only were only in their 20s when they got sold like slaves by Pakistani tribesmen to the Pakistani “authorities”-cum-US. Pretty sad, considering I’m almost certain that their goal was to try to get to the West/&or Turkey and become guest workers.
So you’ll have to pardon me for disagreeing with a Big. Fat. No.Way. even in snark. The only way the uighurs should ever have to experience Joseph Lieberman is with Holy Joe in the cage and them peering at him from the freedom side. And the experience would be their choice. I wouldn’t blame them for going to a nice movie instead. It’s not pretty to look at that human species hybrid “corrupt politician” and “right-wing facist freak.”
Holy Joe should become something like the official corrupt politician’s liaison to Dante’s Inferno. He can try to haggle over circles for Cheney types.
Oh Harry, Harry, Harry -look what hell you’ve wrought upon our Senate.
You and Chuck Schumer gave that seat to a harpy who suited your internal fund raising purposes. But now that all of your buddies on Wall Street got theirs, what we do with little this sad sack of a politician??
For ol’ Joe I think the best position for him is to let him remain a pariah on Harry Reid’s back, to remind ol’ Harry and the other 57 Senators of what a horribly weak and destructive Majority leader Harry Reid was and still is.
I know we have an ambassador to Iraq, but wouldn’t it be fitting for Joe to go to the front of the war that he so passionately shilled for? It would give the Iraqi’s the perfect opportunity to thank him for all his Bush apologizing. Or, he could be the ambassador to the Faux (Fixed) News Channel. Or…Shit-out-of-Luckistan! ANYTHING–just get him out of the Senate!
Make him ambassador to Israel. He wouldn’t have to change his primary loyalty. By any definition Lieberman is a traitor as he puts another country’s interest before his “own”.
Equatorial Guinea. Make Joe ambassador to Equatorial Guinea. Someone has to do it, and no one deserves the honor more.
Anywhere that features dysentery among its’ attractions.
Doesn’t Bo Obama need a walker and pooper scooper? Perfect for Lieberman!
How about putting him in charge of the Russians’ new casinos in Siberia and on the North Korean border?