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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com: Robert Greenwald: Do You Want Lieberman to Have Subpoena Power to Investigate President Obama?
Blogometer: 11/11: Lieberman Vs. The Netroots: The Sequel
DownWithTyranny!: What's To Be Done With Treacherous Joe Lieberman Now That McCain Has Lost And Lieberman Has Come Crawling Back?
Comments from Left Field: Lieberman and Congressional Democrats Are on the Same Page
Hullabaloo — ... greatest hits during the campaign. I hadn't realized he was actually pimping the Bill Ayres business: Obama said today that he doesn't hold any grudges and he's going to leave it up to the caucus to decide (not that he could really do anything different.) But if Lieberman stays, I certainly hope he has eyes in the back of his head. Think Progress has a dossier on Lieberman. So does Jane Hamsher. And both Brave New Films and Firedoglake have actions going to call ...
Robert Greenwald: Do You Want Lieberman to Have Subpoena Power to Investigate President Obama?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Joe Lieberman has launched consistent, deeply partisan attacks on President-elect Barack Obama, questioning his patriotism and fitness to lead. While Lieberman campaigned for John McCain and spoke on his behalf at the Republican National Convention, he spread some of the GOP's nastiest smears. ...
11/11: Lieberman Vs. The Netroots: The Sequel
Blogometer —
... if the Dems take away his committee chairmanship. In their view, the Dems no longer need Lieberman now that they have at least 57 seats (or 56 without him). Moreover, they're not willing to let Lieberman use his authority as chair of the Homeland Security Committee to investigate Barack Obama 's administration. Jane Hamsher warns: "If [Sen. Maj. Leader Harry] Reid buckles to Lieberman's threats, permitting him to keep control of the Homeland Security Committee, the Democrats will no doubt discover that Lieberman has a new zeal for investigating that will be a thorn in ...
What's To Be Done With Treacherous Joe Lieberman Now That McCain Has Lost And Lieberman Has Come Crawling Back?
DownWithTyranny! —
... has now declared he would leave it to the caucus to decide. Obama has said he holds no grudge but certainly hasn't said he wants Lieberman to hold onto his chairmanship. Two of the most senior Democrats in the caucus, Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin, have publicly come out and announced that Lieberman doesn't merit the chair he insists on. And, as always, the Clinton's have some kind of murky, unsavory and serpentine relationship to all this. Jane at Firedoglake (and again at the Daily Beast) has made a great case against clinging on to ...
Jane Hamsher: Obama Wants Lieberman To Stay -- But At What Price?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... While it's one thing for Obama to personally forgive Lieberman for the race baiting and other gutter tactics that he engaged in on McCain's behalf during the campaign, it's quite another to let the chairmanship of such an important committee, which Lieberman has used for years to prevent Senatorial investigation into no-bid contracts and contractor abuse within the Department of Homeland Security, to serve as an olive branch. ...
Lieberman and Congressional Democrats Are on the Same Page
Comments from Left Field —
... “Left” wants. Few things in this world are less likely than them ever taking even a mild stand — such as stripping Lieberman of his Chair — in order to defend some sort of political principle, or to punish ineptitude, or to announce that there are certain lines to the Right that can’t be crossed. They don’t do that. They never have. And it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they won’t now.
Jane Hamsher has a lengthy piece about Lieberman’s record (h/t Glenn); ...
The Rude Pundit — ... . A conservative Democrat in the past, he became a crazed hawk who would, if it was human, encourage Israel to fuck his ass again and again while demanding we bomb deeper into the Stone Age anyone who would dare slander or threaten his master-nation. A putrid opportunist, he thought that by hitching his wagon to John McCain's slimy star and the chimera of bipartisanship (which always means "Democrats must vote like Republicans" and never the other way to those who spout that bullshit), he'd get some of that maverick goo on him. Motherfucker forgot that fellow Democratic ...
Jane Hamsher: Reid, Punk'd By Blago Over Burris, Rejects The Rule Of Law
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... How will it look if they refuse to accept Burris into the Democratic Caucus after having accepted Joe Lieberman, who spent years enabling Bush administration crime and corruption as Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee? ...
