Lieberman--Crazy Like a Crazy Person

Jon Stewart imagines the splendor that will be the Lieberman filibuster of the public option--reading the script of Benjamin Button.

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Cute. In reality, Lieberman doesn't have to lift a finger, because filibusters are automatic. The marathon filibuster style from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington doesn't happen anymore. Somewhere, Howard Dean--who debated Karl Rove on Tuesday at Penn State--is about to scream. "Chicken Sandwich, Karl!"

Nate Silver looks at Lieberman's threat and makes a good point, "[I]t's tough to bargain with people like Lieberman who are a little crazy. In certain ways, he resembles... one of those rogue, third-bit Middle Eastern dictators that he's so often carping about, capable of creating great anxiety with relatively little expenditure of resources, and taking equal pleasure in watching his friends and enemies sweat."