Everything turns up roses for Diamond J

The big political news of the last day or so has been the news that Democratic Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd will not run for re-election in 2010. All just because he was deeply unpopular and likely to lose to nearly every challenger running in the Republican primary. In his stead will run Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who crushes every Republican challenger in polls. I think this marks the first time in decades where a politician looked at his own electoral prospects, soberly analyzed them, and decided that it was better for the party if someone else ran. I don't know about you, but I think Sen. Dodd needs to be checked for some sort of brain parasite or debilitating neurological disorder. That doesn't sound like typical Senate behavior.

But I'm not interested in all of that. What I am interested in is how, yet again, circumstances have conspired to benefit Joe Lieberman. Let Talking Points Memo explain:

Blumenthal was sure to run against him [in 2012]. And if he did I can't see where there's any way Blumenthal would not have crushed him. As we can see from today's numbers, Blumenthal is very popular with Connecticut Democrats. And since he's polling around 60%, he's popular with a lot of independents too. So he would have taken the Democratic nomination (see this poll to see why that is beyond Lieberman's reach now) and eviscerated Joe in the general.

Now? Well Joe's looking better and better for re-election in 2012. Oh, it's still a long shot, but seeing as how everything always seems to work to his benefit, I'm sure Ned Lamont and several other Democratic challengers will fall dead of heart attacks in the run-up to a primary. Why is that, God? Huh? Must you continue to punish us?

If a meteor struck this earth I can guarantee you the only remaining survivors in North America would be Lieberman and every Victoria's Secret model, who had just happened to Connecticut on their yearly Silk Thong Tour when the sky rained fire rocks. So just a word of warning to your bile sacs and rage centers of your brain, I don't know what will happen over the next few years, but it will almost certainly work out to the benefit of Holy Joe. That's apparently the guiding principal of how the universe works now. Just a heads up.