Joe Lieberman, McCain backer and ex-Democrat, tries to keep his Senate committee chair
Well, looks like it's time for Joe the Senator to pay the political piper.
Joe Lieberman is the Democratic senator from Connecticut who was his party's VP nominee just eight years ago but got dumped by his state party in 2006 over his Iraq war stand, got elected as an independent with quiet Republican assistance, caucused with the Democrats as an independent to give them the 51 seats for Senate control (and him a committee chairmanship), then broke with his former party to support his current friend, John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, and was talked about as a possible VP but he's not a woman and John lost so Joe's not gonna become secretary of defense after all and now Joe faces an enlarged Democrat Senate majority led by happy Harry Reid, who never looks that way and doesn't need Joe so much anymore, so Joe's angling to keep his committee and calm down the hard feelings over his speech at the Republican National Convention by talking about bipartisanship like the president-elect does, and we'll see pretty quick here if anyone on any side really believes in that kind of change that we need.
It is, after all, Washington.
We've all now heard of Joe the Plumber. Well, this may very soon be Joe the ex-chair.
So here's Joe's line via video. And he's sticking to it. (No questions, thank you.)
-- Andrew Malcolm
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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Perhaps he could be rewarded with the Ambassadorial post to the Palestinian state of Gaza - he deserves some reward ? Supping with a long spoon was ignored!
Posted by: Richard Donaldson-Alves | November 07, 2008 at 01:38 AM
For Joe Lieberman, for all Republicans, for "Democrats for McCain", for Lady Lynn Rothschild all I can say is ...
Buh Bye.
Posted by: Republican Folley | November 07, 2008 at 12:55 PM