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Rests on Joe Biden’s shoulders:

Senate Dems Cave Again, Vote To Keep Joe

This is change we can believe in:

Democrats, meeting in the Capitol this morning, voted secretly to allow Lieberman to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee — despite his support for John McCain and criticism of Barack Obama during the presidential race.

Lieberman’s punishment for what many Democrats saw as an unacceptable betrayal: He  will lose his seat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, where he has been an outspoken critic of Bush administration global warming policies.

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Lieberman also retained his chairmanship of the Armed Services Committee Airland subcommittee.

So let me get this straight – Lieberman spent the entire campaign standing alongside John McCain and Sarah Palin while they accused Obama of being a “socialist ” and “palling around with terrorists” and even himself went so far as to question Obama’s patriotism and suggest that he may be a Marxist, but that’s OK for the Senate Dems?  Oh, and the right way to exact revenge is to strip him of chairmanships where he actually agrees with the Dems, but to let him keep Homeland Security/Gov’t Affairs, where he’s been a cheerleader for the war in Iraq and has refused to investigate President Bush’s handling of Katrina?  Sure, it helps to have his vote in caucus, but at what price?  I think there was a right way to go about reprimanding Joe, and once again the spineless Dems blew it.  They should’ve taken his chairmanship away and let him bolt to the Republican caucus; by 2012 he would have been out of a job anyway.

This kind of behavior is not what the American people voted for on November 4.  When Senate Dems will learn to stand up with some backbone – I’m not so sure.