D-Day for Liberman

Today all the Senators meet in the secret chambers beneath Washington to vote on whether or not Joe Lieberman gets dipped slowly into a hot vat of acid or given a bag of money. Also whether or not he keeps his seat on the Homeland Security Committee. Democrats like Pat Leahy, Byron Dorgan, and Tom Carper all believe Holy Joe should face some sort of consequences for his constant campaigning for McCain, his slamming, dissembling, and lying about Obama and his policies, his RNC speech, his campaigning for Republican senators like Norm Coleman, and stuff like his statement that he didn't know if the US could survive 60 Democrats in the Senate. They generally think a man who does this shouldn't really be rewarded with a committee post that came about as a result of Democratic control, when all Joe did was fight for Republican control. Also, he already had the chair and did absolutely nothing with it for 2 years.

There are senators like Amy Klobuchar and Evan Bayh who think that Lieberman should be let back in if he makes a really sincere apology and says he's really really sorry. Others just think he should be let back in anyway, because they're Democrats and are terminally stupid. Reid already discussed stripping Joe of his chairmanship and he reportedly threw a snit and threatened to go over to the Republicans.

His empty threat to go join with a group of powerless individuals with no committee chairs and dooming himself to election defeat in his home state apparently scared some of the Democratic caucus and because they are big spineless lady boys they are expected to let him stay, give him control over Homeland Security, and at worst strip him of his Environment and Public Works subcommittee chairmanship. Though if he stamps his feet and holds his breath over that the Democrats will probably make him Majority Leader instead, perhaps impeaching Obama and replacing him with Lieberman. Obama should be thrilled with that since he made so many calls to people asking to keep Mr. Sanctimonious in the caucus.

So unless there's a major finding of a spine in the next few hours, Joe Lieberman gets everything he wants. I'm sure all those Senate Democrats are going to be real surprised when he continues to dick them over in the Homeland Security Committee and generally act like the personification of smug self-centered obsession. You earned it Democrats. Congrats.