I think not. That would be absurdist dark comedy.  But Lieberman is not tragi-comedy -- such would mean things will end well for Joe. They won't. Joe will never be loved again by his state or his party.

Joe might be a Samuel Beckett play. Endgame?

I tend to think Joe is in an after-school special where the stupid, mean jocks who run the school, string Joe (the geek) along  --  partly to mess with his mind and partly to make it look to the teachers like they're working a lot with a tutor.  

It's pathetic that the geek ever thinks the jocks would invite him to ride in their limo to the prom.

Why would Lieberman even waste time with the Bush jock frat-boys?  It's because the TV cameras that swarm around the proselytizing, chest-thumping GOP contribute to the uber-narrative of America - and he wants more than anything to be a key figure in that narrative.

He has fatally misread his place in history because he is losing his sense of the overall story. He thinks that the point-of-view our history changed with the rise of the radical right.

His flawed political calculus tells him that his best bet to a prominent place in Regnery Publishing's history books is to be a maverick. He wants to be what people think McCain is - he wants those TV cameras.

The heart of the problem is that it takes more courage to be loyal opposition and speak truth to power than it does to be "maverick" and side with corrupt power.

Therefore Lieberman's version of maverick is actually cowardice. He is a pathetic figure.

This is the narrative in which to cast Lieberman. What figures from pop culture are as pathetic, as egomaniacal, as cowardly and idiotic as Joe Lieberman?