Interesting story from Talking Points Memorandum today.
I know that Obama has spoken many times about a bipartisan effort being needed to get the US out of the mess Dubya and his pals created. And bygones should be bygones, yadda yadda.
But Joe Lieberman is another stinking kettle of fish altogether. He not only championed McCain and Missus Palin, he gave rabble rousing speeches to crowds of redneck bigots about Obama being anti-Israel, and willing to lose a war in order to win an election, and he backed Missus Palin’s meandering about Obama hobnobbing with turrists.
There is absolutely no way that he should be allowed to keep his position as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. This is not about payback. If he sincerely believed all the drivel he spouted on the McCain campaign trail, a fear monger like Lieberman should not be allowed within a donkey’s roar of any committee to do with any kind of security. If it’s important to keep him in caucus, put him in charge of the committee to count paper clips, and make sure he will never have a say in security matters again.