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Hey! Turns out I had an extra Rush title! Consider it a punitive bombing.

Quite a few years ago, when I was working for The Man, I had a boss who was spectacularly bad at personnel management. Often, when someone would get a better job or just want to move on and would go in to give notice, he would fly off the handle and throw the employee out. His method of educating new employees was to humiliate them and browbeat them in front of other employees. He once hosted a stripper for his partner during office hours. Bad boss, is the point here.

But that's not where we're going right now.

At one point, he had hired a designer from germany or scandinavia, one of those teutonic countries, I'm not really sure. We'll call him Mariusz. The point here is that English was a second language for him, although he was pretty fluent in it. We didn't have any huge problems communicating.

Anyway, the thing is that Mariusz didn't work out, and the Boss sat him down in his office to 'let him go' as they say. But since the Boss kind of liked the guy, there was no tirade or anything. We don't really know what was said.

The next day, the Boss was on the road. We were all kind of surprised when Mariusz showed up for work. “Didn't the Boss fire him yesterday?” “I thought so” What's he doing here?“

And the next day was the same.

The third day, when the Boss was back, he came around and asked why Mariusz was still in the office, and everybody kind of said, we don't know. So finally the Boss had to go AND FIRE HIM AGAIN.

That's kind of how I feel about Joe Lieberman right now. The voters, his bosses, have Let Him Go. They feel they Are No Longer In Need Of His Services. Here's your Pink Slip. You've been Released To Seek Other Opportunities. You are now Promoted to Constituent.

We apologize for the actions of our previous Senator. The Individual responsible has been Sacked.

How else can we tell you to Hit The Road. You are Shitcanned. No, we don't want to bring you back as a contract employee, which is the delusion under which you currently seem to be laboring.

Joe, I know it's tough the first time you're fired. Sack up, man, in this Republican Economy, it's happened to most of us.
To borrow the final line from the final MST3K episode, ”Move ON Joe. We have.“