I know this is preaching to the choir, but this is more directed at the Democrats in power.
Harry Reid really needs to prove he's got the balls to be the Majority Leader now.
Joe Lieberman's committee chairmanship cannot but put to a Democratic caucus vote in the hopes that they vote him out. This simply should not be put up to chance. He needs to be gone the first chance they get.
Andrew Sullivan points a very good reason written by Ezra Klein...
More after the jump.
Ezra Klein points out in "The Case Against Lieberman's Chair":
Steve Benen: As chairman of this committee for the last two years, Lieberman decided not to pursue any accusations of wrongdoing against the Bush administration. Lieberman's House counterpart -- Rep. Henry Waxman's Oversight Committee -- was a vigilant watchdog, holding hearings, issuing subpoenas, and launching multiple investigations. Lieberman preferred to let his committee do no real work at all. It was arguably the most pathetic display of this Congress.
And yet, now Lieberman acts as if keeping this chairmanship is the single most important part of his public life. Why would he be so desperate to keep the gavel of a committee he hasn't used? I'll let you in on a secret: he wants to start using the power of this committee against Obama.
I don't think that's quite right. Rather, Lieberman wants to keep his committee as a hedge against retribution... Unlike Arlen Specter, whose minor heterodoxies ended with a pathetic show of groveling and a solemn promise to never, ever, in a million years, ever say an unkind word about one of Bush's judicial nominees, Lieberman's major betrayal of the Democratic Party has been accompanied by a promise to bolt to the Republicans Party if he's not sufficiently stroked. That's not the sort of guy you want in a position of oversight.
Sounds pretty much like there should be no choice in the matter. Get him the f#ck out of there. Go caucus with the GOP, see how you look if you end up selling your soul or going against everything the GOP says. Nobody likes a traitor.
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