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It’s Official.

7 comments November 18th, 2008at 12:47pm Posted by Eli

The Democrats have no brains, no courage, no pride, and no honor.

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-independent from Connecticut, was allowed to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday despite his support for Senator John McCain in the presidential campaign.

Democratic senators voted instead to strip Mr. Lieberman of a subcommittee chairmanship on the Environment and Public Works Committee, a slap on the wrist compared with the prospect of losing the homeland security leadership post.

“He’s part of this caucus,” the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said after the Democratic caucus voted behind closed doors. “We are not looking back. We are looking forward.”

Mr. Lieberman, who had angered many Democrats by campaigning for Mr. McCain, his longtime friend, emerged from the private session looking pleased. He called the result “fair and forward-looking” and one of “reconciliation and not retribution.”

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Before the meeting, Mr. Lieberman said he was optimistic. “I’m going into a roomful of friends,” he told The Associated Press.

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Many Democrats were infuriated that Mr. Lieberman… ardently supported Senator McCain of Arizona. Mr. Lieberman actively campaigned against Mr. Obama, and harshly criticized him in his speech at the Republican convention.

But Mr. Obama signaled that he did not want Mr. Lieberman thrown out of the Democratic caucus, since expelling the senator could prompt him to align himself with the Republicans. Mr. Lieberman had also signaled that losing the chairmanship of the homeland security panel would be unacceptable to him.

Lieberman “aligning himself with the Republicans” would be nothing more than cosmetic – he’s already aligned with them in every way but name.  Yet the Democrats still act as if he’s one of them, that his support of McCain (and Coleman, and Collins, and Shays, and war, and torture, and wiretapping) was some kind of momentary and forgivable lapse of reason, rather than a continuation of the backstabbing he’s been practicing for at least the last ten years.

“A roomful of friends”?  More like a roomful of suckers.  My expectations for the next four years just got a whole lot lower.  The Democrats have demonstrated once again that words like “consequences” and “accountability” hold as little meaning for them as they do for the Republicans.

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