If this old saw is true, I imagine Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is laughing pretty hard right about now.
As some may recall, I donated to the Lamont campaign when canvassed. Hell, I even voted for the guy. But I voted for Lieberman the time before that and with that in mind, I can't help but feel a small measure of satisfaction at the way he's PUNK'd the rest of the party and gotten off scot-free.
All you huddled, digital masses out there netrooting for his expulsion from the caucus (or as you put it, slyly I suppose you think, simply take away his committee chairmanship) -- I've heard your cries. We in Connecticut can't help but hear them.
I said it was a vendetta, never to be acted upon. The scorn was heaped high that day, I can tell you. But how similar my analysis was to the letter eventually released by our own Howard Dean. "We can't run an Administration based on petulant revenge and litmus tests of personal and ideological loyalty -- Or else... we'd be just like Bush!"
What you say!! Impossible! The netroots like Bush? No, no, Dr. Dean, we're the opposite of Bush! We're progressives!
Oh, that Obama. That wascawwy wabbit. I imagine the netroots will be playing Elmer Fudd to his Bugs Bunny for some years to come, until you folks finally decide to hang up the hunter's hat and get a hobby. Finally a sensible administration to cast out the Roves and self-taught "students" of the same. I suspect their will be many laughs to come -- and not the grim disturbing kind we've been treated to these past eight years.