Joltin’ Joe Has Left And Gone Away, Hey Hey Hey

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Gail Collins may have done the impossible this morning in the New York Times, summing up one senator’s illustrious career in a single sentence.

If you’re continually admiring yourself as you walk away from your group, eventually people are going to feel an irresistible desire to trip you.

Read her entire, and entirely biting, take down of Connecticut’s retiring Joe Lieberman here. But first allow me to reproduce one more Collins’ jewel: “Lieberman has reached a point in his public career where every single thing he does, including talking about his grandparents, is irritating.” Oof.