Democratic Tag Team Fights to Let Lieberman Keep His Chairmanship
By Ned Resnikoff - Nov 13th, 2008 at 9:41 amSigh. Really?
Several top Democratic senators have launched a behind-the-scenes effort to save Sen. Joe Lieberman’s chairmanship, despite calls from a Democratic base seeking retribution for Lieberman’s vocal support of John McCain’s presidential campaign.
Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Ken Salazar (D-Colo.), Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) are all involved in the effort, according to top Senate Democratic aides. These four senators — along with other Lieberman allies — are reaching out to the rest of the Democratic Senate caucus to try to ensure Lieberman survives a secret ballot vote on whether to strip him of his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
This isn’t even about whether or not he stays in the caucus. They literally want him to come back to the Senate with no repercussions whatsoever.
I’m trying to come up with some sort of rational argument they could make for this, but I don’t think there is one. It looks a lot like blind personal loyalty. But for friendship or trust to exist, that loyalty should probably be reciprocal–instead, these guys are fighting for the political career of a man who has thrown them under the bus at every available opportunity.
Seriously, is this some kind of Stockholm Syndrome?
He must have kept the negatives…
November 13th, 2008 at 9:54 am