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The ongoing saga of the Judas Senator trying to keep his cadaverous fingers tightly clutched around the Homeland Security Committee chairmanship continues this weekend, thanks to articles like the homestate Hartford Courant piece which has stirred up more ire among those who wonder why there is even any question about Joe-the-Backstabber retaining any chairmanship or seniority in the Democratic caucus. Politico and Josh both have discussion worth reading.
The collegiality of the good ol’ incumbent-cy boys seems to rear its head in Dodd’s comments. Sorry, Chris, not buyin’ it.
And then there’s the Lieberman aide attributed with the insistence that national security depends on his Senator holding on to "his" chairmanship. Yeah, ’cause he did such a great job of it already, eh?
It took a commenter in the Politico thread to remind me, though, that Lieberman didn’t just fail–deliberately, some say–to perform the oversight responsibilities of Homeland Security. Lieberman didn’t just run against the Democratic-endorsed candidate for US Senate in Connecticut with strong Republican help in ’06. Lieberman didn’t just endorse and support McCain.
Not only did Lieberman actively, aggressively, gleefully, enthusiastically, scurrilously campaign against Barack Obama for the office of President.
He also campaigned for Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman over Democratic candidate Al Franken for the Wellstone seat in the U.S. Senate. Did he campaign in other Senate races, too?
The square is complete…the four sides enclosing one politician who eagerly embraced the opposition as he broke his word and campaigned in both Presidential and Senate races against the party he now thinks should bow and scrape before his Lieberliness.
Give me a frackin’ break. Now more than ever, Joe Must Go.
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The Senate should vote to expel Lieberman. Reid should be demoted from majority leader. Feingold should replace Reid as majority leader.
It takes a 2/3 vote to expel a senator. There aren’t enough votes to expel Joe.
Besides, what has he done that makes him worthy of expulsion? He’s not a convicted felon, to the best of my knowledge he hasn’t committed any ethics violations, nor has he been censured by the Senate. What’s the basis? The fact that he’s a turncoat a&&hole?
He merits censure from the Democratic Caucus in the Senate, and he damned well ought to be shunned by the Democratic Caucus. But his offenses aren’t against the body of the Senate, and don’t (in my view, anyway) rise to the level of requiring or even allowing for expulsion.
As a friend of mine was told after filing a EEO action against her department head, “He’s a jerk. We’re sorry he’s a jerk. But he’s the Dean’s jerk, and he’s a jerk to everyone, so there’s nothing we can do about it.”
Rape-Gurney Joe is a jerk. I’m sorry he’s a jerk. But he’s Connecticut’s jerk, and he’s a jerk to everyone. Catch him with his hand in the cookie jar and maybe we can do something. As it is now, not so much.
yes, he’s a jerk. Now he should be a jerk with no chairmanships…and no seniority.
Lieberman–Caucus of One.
Oh Prairie, that’s a great point that we should use to shift the discussion–how many R senate candidates did he campaign for? The McCain stain is one issue. Campaigning against his party’s candidate’s for senate is an even greater mark against him (as if he needed one).
The Joe situation is an in-your-face insult to all who worked so hard for change. If the Dem leadership
can’twon’t deal with Joe (and be seen to have done so), they are worthless to us and to the country.Message seems clear: if we don’t get in their faces, it’s gonna be business as usual.
If Chris Dodd wants to spend his political capital on Joe, we need to up the anti. Was his FISA stand a charade? Inquiring minds want to know.
Can’t get enough of the Luckovich Joe cartoon.
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antiante. But we do need to up the anti too ;-).Huffington Post is reporting Obama wants Lieberman to stay in the caucus.
From the HuffPo Article.
So, better to piss off the entire progressive community than risk a “taxing political fight” with the party of one. Feh!