Another reason Joe Lieberman is my hero.

Jan. 11, 2007 - Sen. Joe Lieberman,  the only Democrat to question President Bush’s new plan for Iraq, has taken to the airwaves to demand President Bush live up to his pre-election demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.

Lieberman’s zeal underscores the new role that he is seeking to play in the Senate as the leading apostle of a bipartisan plan to bring our boys home, and to focus especially on domestic issues. On Wednesday night, Bush conspicuously cited Lieberman’s advice as being the inspiration for creating a new "bipartisan working group" on Capitol Hill that he said will "help us come together across party lines to win the war on poverty."

But the decision by Lieberman, the new chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to publically step up the committee's Katrina probe is already dismaying insurance industry groups and others who hoped the Democratic victory in November wouldn't lead to more aggressive investigations of one of the White House’s most spectacular foul-ups.

Last year, when he was running for re-election in Connecticut, Lieberman was a vocal critic of the administration’s handling of Katrina. He was especially dismayed by its failure to turn over key records that could have shed light on internal White House deliberations about the hurricane, including those involving President Bush.

Asserting that there were "too many important questions that cannot be answered," Lieberman and other committee Democrats complained in a statement last year that the panel "did not receive information or documents showing what actually was going on in the White House."

Snort.... stretch.... yawn.....

Oh wow, I must have dropped off. It's late here. What a strange dream!

Jan. 11, 2007 - Sen. Joe Lieberman,  the only Democrat to endorse President Bush’s new plan for Iraq, has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

In possibly related news, Professor Lasky's latest experiment has escaped.

Vervoids can produce a gas that smells like methane, but is non-explosive, in big enough quantities to kill humans. They appear to learn very quickly: they know how showers work. A tiny piece of Vervoid pollen in a cut can transform a human into a semi-Vervoid. The Vervoids were created on Mogar by Lasky to be a workforce to replace robots. A consortium has been established to exploit them. High frequency light causes them to emerge from their pods, and strong light can accelerate their life cycle and kill them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...

Yeah - that looks pretty close to what I want to call Lieberman right now.

With apologies, great thanks, and due credit to Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, the fine folks at MSNBC, and the splendid chaps at the BBC.