The Expanded Democratic Majority’s Inauspicious Start
By Ned Resnikoff - Nov 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pmYou knew it was coming. And today, it finally happened: Senate Democrats gave Joe Lieberman the delicate little slap on the wrist that we had been conditioned to expect. But forsooth! Don’t think that there won’t be any consequences at all what soever for Lieberman’s behavior!
Lieberman’s colleagues in the Democratic caucus voted 42-13 Tuesday on a resolution condemning statements made by Lieberman during the campaign but allowing him to keep the Homeland Security Committee gavel. He loses an Environment and Public Works panel subcommittee chairmanship, however.
Are. You. Kidding me?
Once again, Senate Democrats have managed to miss the whole damn point. Lieberman’s record on the environment is actually not terrible, and there’s no reason why he wouldn’t make a perfectly decent subcommittee chair in the coming Congress.
On the other hand, homeland security and government oversight are two issues where his views are not just flat out wrong but dangerous. And yet that’s the chairmanship he gets to keep. Because he wanted it, and who are the Senate Democrats to deprive him of anything he wants?
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November 18th, 2008 at 2:16 pm