The stupid Gators gave me a sad last night. As soon as I saw them take the field wearing orange pants, I knew it wasn’t going to go well. Le sigh.
Oh well. Rammer jammer, yellowhammer, give ’em hell, Ala-bammer!
On a much happier note, today is the official last day in the Senate for Joe Lieberman. Good riddance, Joe, you sanctimonious douchenozzle!
Please feel free to discuss how much you will not miss Joe Lieberman’s “bipartisan” leadership in the Senate. Or whatever.
arguingwithsignposts
I have not watched a college football game this entire season! I don’t feel I’ve missed anything, really. That said, I do wish they’d get rid of the odious BCS.
I would miss it as much as I will miss Sen. Joe Lieberman.
JPL
Momma told me that if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. Let me say though, Joe don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Mudge
Charlie Strong was passed over for the Florida coaching job. I think it is fitting that he came and beat them by outcoaching Muschamp. Two of five SEC teams (Georgia and South Carolina, barely)have won. Three to go. The SEC doesn’t seem to be a super conference this year.
Punchy
Whatever happ’d to the guy Liebs beat in 2006? The guy DKos mouth-hugged on a daily basis? Is he still in politics or off selling timeshares in Branson?
Cassidy
@Mudge:
…as it plays for it’s 7th consecutive National Championship.
Raven
@Mudge: Georgia barely. Really? Obviously you didn’t watch it either.
brantl
Tbogg’s Kvetch and release blog got it just right.
estamm
What I’ll miss most is that I won’t get to hear Jon Stewart doing his droopy dog imitation of Lie-berman.
Betty Cracker
@Mudge: I was really hoping they would give Charlie the job. He’s a great coach and a good guy. The SEC is still the best conference in college football by a long shot.
Elizabelle
I remember when I liked Joe Lieberman.
(sigh)
Long time ago.
Raven
Murray threw five touchdown passes to set a Georgia bowl record, including two in the fourth quarter, as the Bulldogs (No. 7 BCS, No. 6 AP) beat Nebraska (No. 16 BCS, No. 23 AP) 45-31 in the Capital One Bowl on Tuesday.
Murray shook off a pair of first-half interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown, and passed for 427 yards — also a Bulldogs’ bowl record — against the nation’s top-ranked passing defense. He was the game’s most valuable player on the way to earning his first bowl victory at Georgia.
Mustang Bobby
The only thing I’ll miss about Joe Lieberman is Jon Stewart’s spot-on imitation of him.
Punchy
@Raven: Pretty sure the “barely” was a USC ref, not GA.
Raven
@Betty Cracker: And Muschamp is a whiny punk.
JPL
@Raven: The Tale of Two Halves.
Do you think Murray is going pro?
Raven
@JPL: Yes.
Schlemizel
@Mustang Bobby:
Its the only thing that made the Holy Cow bearable.
Sadly Sanctimonious Joe is merely a symptom, the disease will roll merrily along. He is one tumor in a field of tumors. It will be easy to miss him because he will be so easily replaced.
It sadly hilarious that folks here want to whine about GOS working to replace that useless sack of shit with a real Dem. What is your alternative, sit on our thumbs while pricks like Joe fuck us over & say “well, at least he is a Democrat!”?
Betty Cracker
@Raven: I don’t dislike Muschamp per se, but I would have rather seen a guy with more experience take that job. It’s not an entry-level job, you know?
The last time AD Foley went with his gut on an unproven head coach hire, we had the awful Ron Zook. I’m hoping the Muschamp era doesn’t turn out to be a similar debacle. That said, the Gators were overrated all season, and the team is awfully young. I think they’ll be better next year, if Muschamp is up to the task.
gf120581
Sadly, I don’t think this is the last we’ll see of Holy Joe. I have a feeling he’ll be a regular Fox News contributor, brought on whenever they need a “Democratic” voice to bash Democrats and argue why we need to reduce Iran to smoking rubble as soon as possible.
And John McCain and Lindsey Graham need a new third member of their Three Stooges act to replace Curly. Maybe that’s why Kelly Ayotte is hanging around them so much. She’s the Shemp in training.
dr. bloor
@Punchy:
Ned Lamont? From Wiki:
So, yeah, he’s totally gone back to scamming everybody.
Dipshit.
Raven
@Betty Cracker: He could use the awful Zooker to recruit. Remember, I’m an Illini too.
Raven
Luke Russert to Barney Frank
“You are a transformative figure”
Frank
“Well thank you, actually I spend a lot of time trying to transform my own figure”!
Raven
“Florida coach Will Muschamp says the nation’s economic downturn has played a significant factor in the number of UF tickets sold, but personally I think it’s more of an enthusiasm downturn among Florida fans. How else do you explain Florida selling less tickets than any other bowl team in the SEC? How else do you explain upstart Louisville selling twice as many tickets from its allotment as Florida?”
Baud
@JPL:
I can say something nice. Joe was the point person in the Senate in getting DADT repealed…
And that’s about it.
hoodie
@Raven: The Dawgs got snubbed in the bowl assignments, seeing as they were one play away from the national championship game and probably have the most talent on both sides of the ball. I was happy to see them rise to the occasion against a good (but slow) Nebraska, but would have rather seen them play FSU or Clemson (the FSU/NIU matchup was ugly). If Murray comes back, the Dawgs will likely contend for the title. At least UF doesn’t have Lane Kiffen. The Trojans’ performance in El Paso was disgraceful.
Mudge
@Cassidy: One team does not a conference make. @Raven: I believe I said SC barely. Georgia won by a good margin.
c u n d gulag
To really piss him off, and sum-up his entire useless political life, all you need to say is, “Uhm… Joe who?”
Elizabelle
@gf120581:
Why I read this blog.
gogol's wife
I was in the American Embassy in Moscow in fall 1988 when I saw a list hanging up on the wall of the cafeteria of the election results. Of course I already knew that Bush had beaten Dukakis, but I really hadn’t focused on the senatorial races. I looked at that list and saw that Lieberman had beaten Weicker, and my heart sank. It’s been sunken ever since, having to be “represented” by that lily-livered creep. Hallelujah! He’s gone!
amk
Not only a sanctimonious sob, he is a backstabbing sob too. Good riddance.
Schlemizel
@dr. bloor:
Yeah, thank gawd we didn’t get that grifting buffoon elected! Instead The Clintons and Senator Barack Obama campaigned for Holy Joe and he really paid back their loyalty in spades!
Honest to god, if Jesus Christ ran & was supported by GOS some people here would vote against him in favor of the Lieberman of the month DLC candidate.
PaulW
Will there be any drama in the House? The issue of Speakership has been a talking point ever since Boehner blew up his Plan B vote a few weeks back…
xian
I still say he was pretty good on Alf.
some guy
Coach is gonna need to go to a two quarterback system, Driskell and Brissett. #6 really stunk up the joint last night, but the real acolades go to Charlie Strong, who turned that program into a powerhouse in 3 years.
prufrock
As a Nole alum, allow me to say, “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!”
That is all.
Punchy
Peter King just retracted everything he said yesterday, and will vote for Boehner for Speaker. Wow do they get back in line fast….
some guy
@Betty Cracker:
Muschamp has been excellent, but the play calling last night was atrocious. absolutely the worst. Gillislee got what, one or two touches all game? the one bright light was the Debose return, and that’s it. Hopefully, if Elam and Floyd come back next year we will have a serious contending team.
I don’t thionk a team that beats LSU and SC and FSU was overrated, not in the least. but for that loss to Georgia….
Linnaeus
Not a fan of Notre Dame or Alabama, but I hope ND at least gives Alabama a good game.
Elizabelle
Retiring Congressman Gary Ackerman’s op ed from today’s NYTimes:
My Last Day in Congress
Cassidy
@hoodie:
I odn’t think that’s true. I think that was more of a rules thing than anything else.
@Mudge: Which is why 4 SEC teams have won it the past 6 years.
Betty Cracker
@Mudge: Bollocks. An SEC team has won seven of the last 10 BCS championships — four different teams.
Honus
@Mudge: I’m not an SEC fan, but last time I looked Vaderbilt was an SEC team.
ericblair
So I sit down with a cuppa coffee and get a nice big picture of Loserman’s pink puffy Disappointed Dad phiz. Please mark as NSF Breakfast. Thx.
Cassidy
@some guy: [I’m a Gator fan] I have to agree with Betty in that UF has been overrated this year. They did have some good wins, but most UF fans were happy to see us make it through the first four weeks without a loss and we never should have been in the NC conversation. We have a lot of talent and muschamp hasn’t been a bad coach, but this year was not going to be the year.
Betty Cracker
@prufrock: Any year that Florida pwns the Noles (and that has been seven of the last 10, for the record) is a successful season. Thanks for helping me see the bright side. :)
Paul in KY
I fucking HATE Joe Lieberman. Hope he does a DIAF.
Paul in KY
@Raven: At Final 4 last year, UL had more fans there than UK. The Cards travel!
J.
Umm…
danielx
First thing I see this morning (almost) is Holy Joe’s sanctimonious mug gracing the front page and I wonder what fresh bipartisan horror he’s foisted on us today…elimination of Social Security? Sponsorship of a resolution calling for the immediate nuking of Iran?
Then I read it’s his last day in the Senate, and about fucking time. It’s going to be a good day.
some guy
@Cassidy:
Oh, I agree there were some mediocre games, but the wins against LSU, SC, and FSU were decisive. next year we will rock, the incoming class is #2 in the nation, and having Fred Taylor’s son, Kelvin, along with some outstanding D prospects, gets me giddy for next season.
Raven
@some guy: go dawgs!
danielx
I can’t help myself.
Win.
Rosalita
Cripes, that’s about what I said when they mentioned Murphy’s swearing in on the news this morning. Lieberman can get lost and stay there. Sanctimonious shitstain.
Betty Cracker
@J.: It’s a thing…
@some guy: Fred Taylor’s son is playing next year? Christ, I’m old!
Sir Nose'D
Joe inspired me. More specifically, he inspired me to relive parts of my childhood by seeking out Droopy Dog cartoons on YouTube. Thanks, Joe. I would have forgotten all about that character if it wasn’t for you.
Cassidy
That pic reminds me of what I imagine every emoprog looks like when they do their thing, complete with the “wah wah wah” music.
Raven
@Betty Cracker: tell me about it. I watched Doc Rivers play in high school!
Raven
@Betty Cracker: tell me about it. I watched Doc Rivers play in high school!
Cassidy
@Raven: Would you like an onion to go with your belt?
nemesis
Can I get a Roll Tide?
Heading out tomorrow with my son to New Orleans for the Championship game.
What that? The game isnt in New Orleans this year?
Oh well, great bars and fantastic food will have to do. Also get to watch the game with the Bama alums in The Big Easy.
Bama 34 nd 7
Palli
@estamm: Lieberman can continue to ruin American progress toward Democracy when he gets appointed to all those commissions designed to keep politicians meddling in our lives. Never worked hard enough to need to retire., don’t ya know.
handsmile
On which channel (or perhaps how many) will Lieberman be appearing this Sunday?
Holy Joe may be leaving the Senate, but he’s not going away. If anything, his pious bipartisan twaddle will become even more prominent on the airwaves. (Expect to see a lot of the tag-team of Lieberman and Olympia Snowe.)
The only question here is whether he will have an exclusive (mo’ money!) contract with one of the Sunday bobblehead programs or will be spreading the sanctimony among them all.
leinie (iPad mini)
Emporor Palpatine’s last day? Let the celebration begin! I hate that fucking sanctimonious,piously hypocritical, worthless fuckwart with the heat of a thousand suns. I know he’s not going away, but he can go blow his fucknutted buddy McCain and then DIAF. Good fucking riddance. Buh bye!
FlipYrWhig
This picture is like a jowly male version of McKayla Maroney is Not Impressed.
gogol's wife
@Sir Nose’D:
But Droopy Dog is cute, and Joe isn’t.
prufrock
@Betty Cracker: Meh, the past. The future is a different story.
Exhibit A: I got a kick out of watching the coach you should have had thoroughly out perform the coach you settled for. That’s a tough trend to buck.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Raven: Aaron would be foolish not to. Hate to see it as a fan, but …
Narcissus
@FlipYrWhig: Man you just ruined McKayla Maroney for me
Gogiggs
Always hated this guy. He was the reason I didn’t vote for Gore in 2000. I sort of regret that decision now, but at the time, it never occured to me that a man as obviously unqualified as Bush could come close to winning and I just couldn’t bring myself to vote for Holy Joe. What a phony, self-promoting, back-stabbing scumbag.
Cassidy
The best thing about this college football season is not having to listen to the Boise State or TCU or Utah fans whine about not being respected.
elmo
@leinie (iPad mini):
God, he really is the spitting image, isn’t he?
Svensker
Bridgewater was quite impressive. And I sure did enjoy the onside kick shenanigans. And the Swinging Gate formation — had never seen that before.
Cacti
So, who will be the next hotshot college coach to head to the pros and get his ass handed to him?
Todd
@Betty Cracker:
FTFY
When you get a metric shit ton of shilled positive press and rankings at the beginning of the season, and don’t have to play all of your conference’s toughest teams in any given year, it ain’t hard to make it to the BCS National Championship game every single year.
Still love ya, though…
Todd
@Raven:
We travel well, always have.
NorthLeft12
If there was any decision that Gore made that someone could point to and say “That’s why he should not be President.” It was the awful choice of Mr.Lieberman as his running mate.
What was the reasoning behind putting this douchebag on the ticket? Anyone?
Not Sure
GO CARDS!!!!!!!!!
/Dad’s an alumnus (’63).
//A nephew of mine is at U of L now.
///Eff the Gators.
Betty Cracker
@Todd: Four different teams from the same conference winning the lion’s share of championships over the last 10 years. Five different teams in the same conference taking the top five slots on strength of schedule this year. This is factual information. Denying it is like denying climate change. If you think there’s a better conference, state your case.
Betty Cracker
@NorthLeft12: Lieberman scolded Clinton’s dick.
lamh35
Hitting the ground running:
Obama Plans Immigration Reform Push This Month
Paul in KY
@elmo: I think Emporer Palpatine was a better legislator.
ricky
Lieberman? Isn’t he the guy who was used to set an example of the coming power of the Netroots Nation? Or am I just living in an alternate reality based community?
Paul in KY
@Todd: The Ville will. That’s part of the thrill :-)
lamh35
Kudos to Gore & Co for sparing us this BS:
Glenn Beck tried to buy Current TV
Paul in KY
@NorthLeft12: It was to show Mr. & Mrs. America how much VP Gore detested the unseemly behavior of Pres. Clinton’s penis.
Paul in KY
@Betty Cracker: Betty, I’m in moderation at #85 above. Same basic post as yours. Could you release me from purgatory?
Cacti
My personal favorite Florida Gators moment was the 1996 Fiesta Bowl.
Forum Transmitted Disease
@NorthLeft12: I remember some minor hullabaloo about him being the first Jew on a major party’s ticket.
It’s hard to remember. It’s been twelve years and Gore was such an atrocious candidate that I spent that whole campaign mostly muttering “oh my God we’re going to lose to a retard” and sure as shit we did. This by way of explaining that I wasn’t really paying much attention to Lieberman.
Cassidy
@Todd: Unlike other conferences, the SEC has multiple tough teams to choose from. Everyone else wins 1-2 tough games and thinks that they should be getting a mouth hug from ESPN.
Here is the difference between the SEC and everyone else. In any given year, any of the big teams may or may not have a good season. Notre Dame makes it’s schedule three years out and got lucky to play some decent teams this year. Any Big 10 or 12 team may be good, but may or may not play a conference full of cans. OTOH, the big SEC teams know that every season they are playing at least one, if not two or more, NC contenders, every year.
This doesn’t make other teams not good or other conferences weak (except the California PeeWee League), but the lack of predictability and uncertainty don’t build teams that go through the meat grinder every single year.
Todd
@Betty Cracker:
Given the way that SEC play is broken up into its divisions and the genuine weakness of its bottom half teams, it is as if the BCS system was practically designed to put it in championship games over and over. And the strength of schedule thing (since it involves a lot of play with the weaker teams) is like asking for dates at the family reunion – evrybody will have to overtly approve your choice. Even outsiders will nod on approvingly, lest the entire group of SEC teams decide to take offense.
The SEC is good, just not that good. On a happy note, I will be rooting for the Tide next week, as I well and truly despise ND.
handsmile
@NorthLeft12:
Holy Joe denounced the Clenis on the floor of the Senate. Cautious Al Gore, struggling to distance himself from the scandal-ridden Clinton presidency (Village gospel then and forever), evidently believed that Lieberman embodied that righteous effort. Also too, Israel.
There is no little irony that on the day that Lieberman oozes from the Senate, it is reported that Gore, whose selection of Holy Joe as his running-mate will long tarnish him, will be profiting in excess of $100 million in the sale of his co-ownership of Current TV to Al-Jazeera. (Btw, I am completely thrilled by the prospect that Al-Jazeera News may become more widely available to US viewers.)
Sterling
@Punchy: What’s with the hostility to Ned Lamont? Lieberman won only because the republicans had no viable candidate of their own and Lieberman became their way to stick it to democrats. You think Lieberman has been better for democratic goals than Lamont would have been?
Comrade Jake
“Joe Lieberman is a national treasure” – said nobody, ever.
Cacti
@Sterling:
He was a nutroots purity candidate who lost.
Gatorbait
Yes, I think the entire Gator Nation went “well, this isn’t going to end well” when the College Gameday intro showed the Gators in warmups wearing blue shirts and orange britches. It’s as if Muschamp stumbled across the tape of ’99 FSU over the holidays and said, “we gotta get us some of that!”
NorthLeft12
@handsmile: Thanks. This makes the most sense to me. Although kudos to Betty Cracker for the most succinct reason.
Cacti
As for the Special Education Conference, hard to argue at this point that “y’all” weren’t overrated badly this season by virtue of past performance.
Two of your big 3 have now lost games they were supposed to win handily (sorry Jawja, win something if you want to be called “big”).
Gatorbait
@“Eff the Gators.”:
Stay classy.
We’re not great rivals. You won. Congrats. And good job on taking the most undervalued assistant coach in all of college football (even now, I cannot hold back my man crush on Charlie Strong). But please grow up.
J R in WV
@Gogiggs:
Never forget that Bush didn’t win, he cheated and stole, which is not the same thing at all. And after the theft, they pretended that it was a mandate.
Worst political event in the History of Democracy!
Cassidy
@Gatorbait: Everyone’s argument boils down to “We don’t get the same press on ESPN. If we did we’d be just as good and our players, recruiting, coaching, etc. would magically get better to go with it!”. Or there was the knucklehead last night complaining about playing in the elements.
AxelFoley
@Schlemizel:
You sound upset. Go take a nap.
Gatorbait
@Cacti:
Every conference has up and down years. Bowl performance can be a murky predictor (Vanderbilt beat the team that beat the ACC champ) because some teams just don’t show up in bowls. But let’s accept that the SEC is not as strong now as it was a year ago. It’s still the best conference in the country, and there’s no other conference that’s even close.
ThresherK
Blowmentum should have just quit speaking in public after his Newtown shooting statement. I don’t remember much about his appearance, but that’s a good thing. Nothing stuck out in my memory of being ill-toned or factually wrong or obtusely scolding someone leftwards of him.
Ruckus
@JPL:
Momma told me that if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all
Mine too. However…
Good fucking riddance.
I’m not as nice as mom.
WaterGirl
Although my catholic guilt – which remains, by the way, even if you are no longer a practicing catholic – would never allow me to gleefully proclaim that Andrew Breithbart is still dead, I am am overjoyed that Joe Lieberman is leaving the senate, and happier still that I will be able to joyfully proclaim over and over that Joe Lieberman is still not in the senate.
2013 is shaping up to be a great year!
Joel
I don’t care if they win, but I hope that Alabama, the AAA franchise for the New England Patriots, doesn’t suffer any critical injuries.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Honus: Yes. And I’m assuming the last time you looked on the Music City Bowl scoreboard, you saw Vanderbilt – one of the SEC’s “weak sisters” – beat a middle-of-the-pack ACC team?
Felonius Monk
Lieberman’s exit will be much like being cured of a hemorrhoid. Suddenly, the pain in the ass is gone.
Frankensteinbeck
Lieberman is the model of bipartisanship in the Village: A Democrat* who loudly proclaimed that the Republicans are right about everything. I’m pretty sure most of the TV journalists are Reagan Democrats like him.
* Yes, I know, but they don’t forget. That he had to stop being a Democrat because we naturally took umbrage at this proves in their mind that Lieberman was right.
Paul in KY
@Frankensteinbeck: The TV Journalists are rich, rich, rich. They have legit reasons to be Republicans.
dww44
@Raven: Is there video of that with a link? I’d love to share this with my non blog reading bff.
Sawgrass Stan
@Elizabelle:
Me, too. I even remember when Dennis Miller was funny.
Scary. Obviously we’re too old to ignore it anymore.
Bostondreams
@prufrock:
And that coach we settled for outcoached your designated Heir to Bobby’s Throne. So I’m okay with this season.
kindness
As of a half hour ago many major douches are no longer sitting representatives of America. Thank god for that.
Now we have to address what to do with many of the ones who still do sit in Congress.
Patricia Kayden
@gf120581: Thankfully I do not watch Fox News, so I won’t be seeing him again. Yay.
Patricia Kayden
@handsmile: Dang. First time I’m hearing about this.
I watch Current TV’s line up every morning and sporadically in the evenings. Will miss Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, Joy Behar, etc. Oh well, there’s still MSNBC.
karen marie
Lieberman’s phone at the senate is already disconnected, so I called CT Senator Blumenthal’s office to pass on a message — I hope he chokes on his taxpayer-funded lifetime health care and retirement benefits.
Another Halocene Human
@Raven: The Gators sucked this year.
But spending does seem down overall. Maybe the scumbag sumbitches that spend all that money RVing around football games have seen a drop in income. Real estate scams are down; agriculture seems steady, but who knows; some development is back; less gen. contracting jobs for well-connected UF alumni under Haridopoulos/Scott; the big landlords are definitely hurting because they overbuilt; charter schools under heightened scrutiny.
Who knows.
handsmile
@Patricia Kayden:
Current TV’s website is still posting a broadcast schedule. Depending on your location/cable package, you may be able to keep watching those programs for the time being. (Here in New York City, the evil Time Warner has already ceased transmission.)
In Al-Jazeera’s announcement of its purchase, it advised that a new channel Al-Jazeera America would be developed; no mention of a timeline for its debut.
Should you have access to Al Jazeera English (provided now by only a few carriers in the US), let me recommend it enthusiastically. Not dissimilar to Current TV in its emphasis upon documentaries/long-form coverage, its reporting on international affairs is outstanding and deeply informative. It puts BBC America, much less any American news programming, to shame and disgrace.
LanceThruster
In an alternate universe, I wonder how much VP Lieberman would have been pissing me off under the wise tutelage of Pres. Gore. Would he have stopped being enough of a schmuck to actually vote for him after Pres. Gore’s second term?
Hard to say. Reeeally hard to say. I dislike the smarmy little weasel so much (yet held my nose to vote for the ticket he was on).
JustAnotherBob
@prufrock: As another let me add
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!”
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!”
Kilkee
You read it here first: ND shocks the world. (Well, the SEC.)