Or maybe he won't. Who the hell knows. I don't.
Am I the only one who's sick up to here of thinly sourced speculation peddled as truth? All I know for sure is that nobody really knows what Lieberman will do. And anybody who says different is a liar or a fool. Why I'll bet even Lieberman doesn't know what Lieberman is going to do.
And as long as I'm ranting, what's up with all of these Kossacks acting like they do know, when they don't?
At least I understand the "he's gonna screw us" crowd, sort of. It's like a political battered person syndrome. You get hit so often you just come to expect it. I can relate. When I lived in LA I was an Angels fan, back in the heyday of their futility. No matter how well they played in May, you knew they were going to lose just enough in August to blow it. I eventually became convinced that they were destined to play in the World Series, because they hadn't lost one of those yet.
On the other hand I don't know what to say to the 11th dimensional chess people. Now I suppose it's possible that Reid and Obama put this whole thing together summer before last, in between campaign stops, and we are just watching a done deal play out here. And it's possible that no matter how bad things look right now, our side can call a 60th vote for cloture into being just by visualization, or the depth of our faith, or claiming it or some such nonsense.
But, and let's be brutally honest here, does it look like this is what is happening in reality? Of course not. The whole thing's a mess. Yes it's better than what we have now, but how hard is that?
And if our side really has these special, invisible, powers, maybe we should spend a profitable afternoon or two down at the racetrack instead. Then none of us would be sweating our health care premiums anyway.
People. The first step to overcoming a problem is to acknowledge it exists.
So repeat after me:
I do not know how Lieberman will vote, any more than I can predict where and when the next major hurricane will hit next year.
I cannot know how Lieberman will vote until it's too late to do anything about it.
Some things are unknowable. That's ok.
Let's go get a drink.