Obama refuses call from Lieberman

Doesn't sound like Barack Obama is being that conciliatory to Joe Lieberman:

Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached out to President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden to arrange a congratulatory phone call, a Democratic aide tells The Crypt. The effort has led to a recent conversation between Biden and Lieberman.

So Lieberman called Obama to congratulate him (and suck up to try and save his committee chairmanship), and Obama hands him off to Biden.

It's not as if Obama is blowing off his Senate colleagues. He's even called Republicans.

Then he added: "Again [Obama is] making some calls to Congress ....one of the calls he made while we were on the tarmac here was to Sen. Lugar who he obviously has had a relationship with since coming to the Senate and he's you know starting to call members of Congress.

"To Lugar?" he was asked.

Gibbs: "He made three calls one of them was to Lugar."

Don't read anything into this, an Obama aide said tonight, other than the fact that Obama is bipartisan in his telephonic conferences.

So he's reaching out to key Senators, yet when Lieberman calls, he's handed off to Biden?

Doesn't sound like Obama doesn't hold grudges.

Senate Republicans are still trying to blame Obama for sabotaging efforts to strip Lieberman of his chairmanship, but reality is, the Senate can decide for themselves. It just seems that they can't escape their cycle of capitulation.