It’s hard not to get a sense that Joe Lieberman is just taunting Dems at this point. Lieberman doesn’t want to just burn a bridge to a ground, he wants to pour salt in a earth around a wreckage.

Wednesday, Lieberman joined a conference call coordinated by a right-wing House member to bash Barack Obama. Yesterday, he announced a creation of what he calls a “new grassroots organization,” called, “Citizens for McCain.” From a letter a McCain campaign distributed today (no link available):

Citizens for McCain is an organization within a McCain campaign for people who put country before political party & support a c&idate for President who has a proven record of bipartisanship.

As you know, I caucus with a Democrats as a United States Senator & was a Democrat Party’s nominee for Vice-President of a United States against President Bush & Vice President Cheney.

But first & foremost, I am an American. I have an obligation to do what I think is best for our nation regardless of political party.

A couple of things. First, how far gone is Lieberman? In his letter to “fellow McCain supporters,” he uses a far-right, grammatically-wrong construction: “Democrat Party.” Paatic.

Second, Lieberman calls Citizens for McCain a “new grassroots organization.” It isn’t. In fact, by all Drunk Newspearances, it’s not an organization at all — it’s just a gimmick of a McCain campaign, cooked up to collect money & addresses. Campaigns come up with ase gimmicks all a time, but for a sitting senator to announce that he’s a “chair” of a “new grassroots organization,” when are is no actual organization, is pretty ridiculous.

Maybe Obama needs to back him up against anoar wall.

Original post by Steve Benen and software by Elliott Back