Update [2008-11-18 12:10:2 by BooMan]: I’m bumping last night’s article up so that I don’t need to explain the relevant committees again. Lieberman got the exact deal outlined below and won an ‘overwhelming vote’. He lost his subcommittee chair over global warming but retained his other two chairs. More below…
CNN reports, and MSNBC concurs, that Joe Lieberman will keep his gavel on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. Both outlets report that Lieberman will be stripped of one of his two subcommittee chairs. CNN (on teevee) specifies that it will be his subcommittee chair on the Environment & Public Works Committee. That would be the Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection. Big fucking deal.
In other words, if this reporting is correct, Lieberman will be stripped of a subcommittee chair that presides over an issue where he votes with the Democrats, and left in charge of a full and subcommittee (Armed Services Subcommittee on Airland) where he votes against the Democrats. That’s fucking brilliant. I certainly hope the reporting is wrong. Fire away!!
Update [2008-11-18 12:10:2 by BooMan]: Lieberman retains the Airland Subcommittee, which means that he oversees all Army and Air Force activities. He also retains the gavel at Homeland Security & Government Affairs. Some people worry that Lieberman will use the chair to harass the Obama administration. He won’t. He’ll use it to protect the Bush administration.
Obviously, the Democrats are idiots. And they enjoy being complicit in our nation’s greatest blunders.
