Joe Lieberman is running around talking about how he was just being independent when he supported John McCain and spoke at the Republican convention. That wasn’t independence. That was Joe Lieberman angling for a spot on the Republican ticket.
He didn’t get it. His exercise of political ambition came up short and now he is out on a limb. Harry Ried should cut it off.
What is it about?
Lieberman has been offered other committee chairs and his seniority, but Lieberman wants to keep his committee chair. Why?
So that he can investigate Obama. He hasn’t done anything in the last two years of the Bush Administration, but now he wants to use it to hammer Obama.
And yet, now Lieberman acts as if keeping this chairmanship is the single most important part of his public life. Why would he be so desperate to keep the gavel of a committee he hasn’t used? I’ll let you in on a secret: he wants to start using the power of this committee against Obama.
Lieberman didn’t want to hold Bush accountable, but he seems exceedingly anxious to keep the committee that would go after Obama with a vengeance, effectively becoming a Waxman-like figure — holding hearings, issuing subpoenas, and launching investigations against the Democratic president.
Lieberman doesn’t care about “reconciliation,” he cares about going after a Democratic administration. Why else would he fight diligently to be chairman of one committee instead of another?
Lieberman is a punk.
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.