Just go Joe

By Libby

Reid and Lieberman had some kind of private confab yesterday. Here's Joe's press statement afterward.



Options? He has options all right. He should opt to not let the door hit him on the way out.

Jane Hamsher tells us he's having a series of meetings with Reid to decide what to do. What's to decide? He should resign his committee gracefully and leave the caucus for his new BFFs in the GOP. Make it official already. He hasn't voted with the Democrats on anything important in literally years.

Why bother with this silly charade? They don't need him if he doesn't come through the votes anyway and if he goes to the GOP then he can be all bi-partisanish when he crosses the aisle to support President Obama's proposals.

It's a simple choice. Joe must go. If you would like to make that clear to the Dems, sign the No More Joe petition.

Comments

[smintheus]

Well stated, Libby. Lieberman should never be trusted to the extent of providing him with direct access to Democratic planning. Neither should he be rewarded with another chairmanship. For one thing, he's done nothing during the last 2 years with the one he has.

As you astutely say, if he's truly bipartisan then let him slink over to the party he endorses, spend his time bashing his new party, and reach back across the aisle to the Democrats.

[Mark]

I signed the petition. And I'm not even a Democrat! But the man needs to be removed from the Homeland Security chairmanship. Can you imagine any "Democrat" worse suited for that job from a liberal/civil libertarian perspective?

[Libby]

Amen Sminth.

Thanks for signing Mark. I'm not one to wish ill on people and I'm generally forgiving but Lieberman has got to be punished somehow for coarsening the discourse the way he has.