So Not Surprised

Joe Lieberman has taken a job with the Koch suckers at the American Enterprise Institute.

Digby nails the analysis:

This is a common project of the Right these days. They know that no one likes their ideas. Scarred by the experience in Iraq, few want to do it again in Iran. Few want to eliminate Social Security, give tax breaks to rich, loosen gun laws, or do any of the other things on the Right's agenda.

So one of the Right's strategies is to go trolling for morally deficient, easily corrupted neoliberal "Democrats" to assist their efforts at creating a "bipartisan consensus" to override popular will and common sense in the service of the conservative agenda.

I don't know how much he's being paid for this, but my guess is that it will be a lot more than he made as a Senator, because that's how back loaded bribery works.

No promises, but if you toe the line, you know that you get a payoff when you retire.