Quote of the day: Isn't it odd that Boss Rahm is working as hard as his pal Holy Joe Lieberman to help the GOP maintain control of the House?

"Explain to me how two Democrats running is bad."
--Boss Rahm Emanuel, to New York Times reporter Jennifer Medina ("Senate Contest Casts a Shadow in Connecticut," in today's paper), about the Connecticut Senate race, where Joe Lieberman's to-the-death drive to hold onto his seat by bringing out his natural Republican base is likely to help save the Republicans those three House seats they stand to lose, thereby helping them retain control of the House

There are two possibilities here:

• Boss Rahm is as stupid as he's pretending to be. (Is there anyone else who even claims not to understand this excruciatingly simply proposition? I just explained it in 41 words: Joe Lieberman's to-the-death drive to hold onto his seat by bringing out his natural Republican base is likely to help save the Republicans those three House seats they stand to lose, thereby helping them retain control of the House.)

• Boss Rahm is being disingenuous, and in fact is every bit as comfortable as GOP Joe with the Republicans' maintaining control of the House.

I mean, it's not as if it's Boss Rahm's job to help the Democrats gain control of the House. Oh wait, isn't that exactly the job of the head of the DCCC?

Apparently not. Apparently he prefers the you-wash-my-back-and-I'll-wash-yours status quo to the possibility of "power sharing"--with fellow Democrats he may not be able to control.


FOOTNOTE

After reading Jennifer Medina's NYT story in my actual newspaper, I went online to get the URL for a link. I had no trouble finding the link, but the page itself didn't open! Do you suppose the Lieberman computer "hacks," the bozos who have been unable to keep their c1980-technology website up and running, got into the NYT system?