McCain backer Lieberman keeps committee chair
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Lieberman will keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite hard feelings over his support for GOP nominee John McCain during the presidential campaign.
The Connecticut independent will lose a panel post on the Environment and Public Works panel as punishment for criticizing Obama this fall.
Lieberman's colleagues in the Democratic caucus voted 42-13 Tuesday to approve a resolution condemning statements made by Lieberman during the campaign but allowing him to keep the Homeland Security Committee gavel.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he had been very angry about Lieberman's actions but that "we're looking forward, we're not looking back."
Added Reid: "This was not a time for retribution, it was a time for moving forward on the problems of this country. Also, i have no testicles. Mining accident as a child..."
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But you have to admit that for a jellyfish, Harry Reid has done quite well for himself and his family.
Disgusting. Spineless. Just another day in the life for the Democrats.
Of course, if the Democrats win 60 via Georgia, all is forgiven for good ol' Joe!
As in, what a douche bag Good Ol' Joe is, but at least we can get a decent jurist on the Supreme Court!
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Man, I hope Good Ol' Joe is choking on a hairball right now, but you know...60 votes is 60 votes.
If it's 59 after Georgia,
they should expel the piece of shit.
I'm guessing Obama was consulted on this, and guessing that part of the calculation is that if you're close to 60, where only a couple of Republican votes can move things forward, you don't want to be alienating any of the members you can usually count on to get you to 58 or 59, regardless of how the undecided Senate seats turn out. I can see the sense in that, and how Obama's emphasis on bipartisanship would make this a bad time to engage in old-school, shoot him in the back before he reaches the other side of the aisle recriminations.
That said, I hate Joe's guts.
But couldn't we at least give him a quick swift kick in the ass?
Just a little one?
While he's walking with a cup of coffee?
And we could have a camera to get a picture of his face at that moment?
And we could use that picture over and over again. Every time he makes an announcement?
And then he slides through it? Sure, why not...
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