Oh, good. Joe Lieberman is joining the American Enterprise Institute where he will work with Jon Kyl on building bipartisan support for more reckless foreign adventures. Meanwhile, Scott Brown landed a job where he will represent Goldman Sachs, among others. We’ll see if he can do that job while also honoring his new contract with Fox News. These three men have found a way to make more money doing the exact same thing that they were doing while they were in office, which was to fuck things up.
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Succinct and to the point.
Fortunately, all three were replaced by better Senators. Huge upgrades in the case of Chris Murphy and Elizabeth Warren. And even Jeff Flake is marginally better than Kyl – reasonable on a couple issues and willing to acknowledge that his Latino constituents are actual human beings.
Jeff Flake is one of the few deficit scolds who actually seems to mean it. He’s wrong, but at least he’s wrong in an honest manner. The puts him above 90% of his party.
Giving Lieberman yet more opportunity to piss off folks. But at least it’s not on the public’s dime.
There needs to be a period of quarantine before these guys can join a think tank or a lobbying firm. I’d say a period equal to their time in office…
There is a 2-year waiting period before Senators can lobby their former colleagues, and 1-year for House members. But yeah, some of them ought to have to wait a little longer.
Honestly, being an ex-Senator would be an awesome gig. You can go around giving speeches to make cash, you could run a great non-profit, be a public advocate on the issues that are really important to you – why is it that every single one of these people seemingly has to whore themselves out to the lobbying firms, including the good guys like Chris Dodd? Can the money really be worth it?
Here’s the Politico article on the two year wait period for Senators. Guess it’s a never mind law if you’re a Rep.
So I’m guessing this means Scott Brown will not be running for office for a long time or maybe never again
Lieberman to AEI. GodDamn, that chicken’s ass is all reamed out by now, isn’t it? Put the poor thing down, Joe.
Loved this quote from The Hated One where he claimed there’s an “urgent need to rebuild bipartisan — indeed non-political — consensus for American diplomatic, economic, and military leadership in the world.”
Non-political consensus on that broad set of issues? So, a dictator, then.
What an asshole.
At least they’ll get to keep their health insurance and pensions.
Not to mention being addressed as “Senator” on TV.
When will msm acknowledge that FOX is an unregistered Lobbyist?