Mandate for reconciliation

Dean:

So if you run and get a mandate for reconciliation is your first act to kick this guy out of the party?

The question wasn't kicking Lieberman out of the party. Democrats in Connecticut already did that in 2006.

And once again, given this "mandate for reconciliation", I suspect that Reid won't reduce committee staff and seats for Republicans? Since that would be punitive. And we all want reconciliation, right? And maybe we can give Inhofe his committee chairmanship back, because apparently, the American people didn't vote for change.

And while we're at it, it just wouldn't be right for Obama to rid the executive branch of its thousands of political appointees, right? Because the first act once you have a "mandate for reconciliation" shouldn't be booting people out of their jobs for the pesky little reason that they supported the other party.

Right?