Just go. Any Democratic leadership with any guts would kick Lieberman out of the caucus for this latest stunt.
“I probably will support some Republican candidates for Congress or Senate in the election in 2010. I’m going to call them as I see them,” Lieberman said in an ABC News “Subway Series” interview aboard the U.S. Capitol Subway System. […]
Jim Manley, the spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Talking Points Memo’s Eric Kleefeld that his boss is more concerned about the health care push then Lieberman’s latest quips.
“Senator Lieberman may call them as he see’s them, but for Senator Reid, the only thing that he is focused on right now is delivering on the president’s promise of comprehensive health care reform,” Manley said.
Connecticut is a blue state. We don’t need to appease Lieberman in the same way we need to understand and work around the concerns of Democrats elected in traditionally conservative states. In 2012 a progressive candidate will be the Democratic nominee, no matter what Joe says or does. He isn’t voting for health care reform no matter what the Democrats offer him because he’s been bought by the Insurance Industry, and he’s an obstructionist as a chairperson on the committees he does head up in the Senate, so what’s the purpose for paying footsie with the guy who always kicks you in the shins? Where’s the benefit to letting Harry Reid play Curly to Joe’s Moe? Really. Kick him out now.
