I think that the best move with regard to Joe Lieberman is to provide him with an out. He can’t win reelection under any realistic scenario. He may get desperate and start flirting around with trying to win the Republican nomination, but it’s not a realistic option for him and it would probably cost him his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Government Oversight Committee. The president could use a more loyal, partisan chair of that committee anyway, because the House Oversight Committee is going to make trouble under the stewardship of Darrell Issa of California. I think it’s best to just get Lieberman out of the Senate and into a job that he doesn’t find to be a humiliating demotion. I don’t really know what he’d accept, but now that we have a Democratic governor in Connecticut we can be assured that his replacement will caucus with us and not show a preference for the McCain-Palin ticket. So, whatever it takes, Obama should find something to occupy Lieberman’s time. It doesn’t make sense for Lieberman or the administration to keep him around in the Senate for the next two years.
