Adios and Good Riddance Joe the Senate Chairman

Message to Harry Reid: Send Joe Lieberman packing.  The Democrats don't need him.  We don't like him.  His behavior on the campaign trail carrying John McCain's dirty water should not be forgiven or forgotten any time soon (Hear that, Connecticut voters?)

Just to recap for a moment...

Joe Lieberman did not just endorse his pal McCain out of some shared ideological conviction about the Middle East and the Iraq War.  He served as one of McCain's most consistently despicable lie-spewers.

Remember the time Lieberman argued that Obama doesn't put "country first." And the time Lieberman said it was a "good question" to ask whether Obama is a "Marxist." And the time Lieberman ironically accused the Obama campaign of "sleazy tactics." And the time Lieberman, at the Republican National Convention, falsely accused Obama of trying to undermine the troops.

But he needs to lose his vaunted chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Government Relations committe for even more heinous behavior .... actions that have nothing to do with Barack Obama. Steve Benen wrote today:

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.

It is Lieberman's record as the committee chair that should warrant his demotion.  The slime he threw against Obama was just fetid icing on the Joe Loserman betrayal cake.  Let him bolt over to his beloved Republicans (who don't really return the affection to him) and then let the voters of his state pay him a final political tribute if he is foolish enough to try to hold his Senate seat in 2012.

 Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake has an online petition that readers can sign to press for Lieberman's ouster.

Comments

[Burr Deming]

You are on the mark, I think. And there is more. The anger against Joe Lieberman goes back to 2006.

He was not the only Senator who continued to support a forever occupation. There were others. But even then he was unique as a Democrat in going out of his way to taunt those whose support he demanded:

http://www.FairAndUnbalanced.com?http://www.testimoanials.com/blog/blog1.php/2008/11/07/joltin-joe-may-leave-and-go-away