A Washington Post "In the Loop" article says that there is a rumour running around Washinton that Bush may ask Lieberman to be the new secratary of defense.
There's been K Street chatter, our colleague Jeffrey H. Birnbaum tells us, that Lieberman could be on an administration list to replace Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in the next year or so.
That would be convenient for Lieberman, whose term is up in 2006, and could give Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) an opportunity to appoint a Republican to the seat for at least a few months before the election, inching the GOP closer to a filibuster-proof Senate.
Does this mean that we should go scorched earth on Lieberman or does it mean that we need to coddle him so that he doesn't jump ship. He obviously doesn't want to be senator, considering that he's been campaigning for president and vice president for three of the last four years.
His foreign policy ideas are closer to the neo-cons than anything else so I'm not sure that he'd be much better than Rumsfeld. Combine that with the fact that the Republicans might be looking for a Democrat as a fall guy on Iraq and I'm scratching my head about what to do.