Pensieri di un lunatico minore

Why Lieberman should spend 40 years in the wilderness

There’s much haranguing about whether Joe Lieberman (I-CT) should “keep” his position as chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. There shouldn’t be. He shouldn’t. This is not a minor policy disagreement. This is not a disagreement about whether Joe Lieberman toes the party line. It’s about the fact that he’s a turncoat in the strictest definition. This is not someone who said “nice things” about John McCain, but someone who campaigned for him, and spoke at the Republican convention. This is not someone who kept silent about Obama, this is someone who accused him of all sorts of laughable things—most of which if turned against Lieberman would quickly and roundly be condemned as anti-semitic insanity.

He not only doesn’t deserve a chairmanship. He doesn’t deserve a formal place at the table. Let him sit at the little kids table until he grows up. Unfortunately, Senate Democrats, in keeping with their tradition, are spineless weasels who will take a secret vote today, and likely give him everything he wants. They’ll try and pretend that he’s been rebuked, but a minor loss of power isn’t a rebuke, it’s a slap on the wrist. They’ll pretend they’re change, but they are just more of the same.

This is a petty man who went to support a party he has almost nothing policy wise in common with—except a love of war and death, apparently—because he was throwing a temper tantrum and wanted attention. This will come back to haunt many Senators in 2 years.