Harrumph!

The Senate Democratic caucus left Holy Joe's status intact, just as we all thought they would.

What spineless bastards.

Makes me wanna puke.

[Caution: violently emetic video for those with strong stomach only.]



As Jane Hamsher observes:

No matter what Joe Lieberman does, the people who are protecting him hate you much more than they hate him.

I'm with Markos:

I'm done with Reid as Senate leader.

Alas, our system does not have no-confidence votes. We need one right now. Would they know how to fucking govern if they HAD a 60+ majority? I increasingly think not.

Yeah, I'm pissed, even though it played out as I was certain it would.

h/t to BarbinMD for the video
--the BB

My God, she is good

Well, y'all knew that anyway. But it is so nice to hear eloquent punditry with good reasoning and cogent examples.

Ladies and gentlemen (and the rest of you lot), I give you Rachel Maddow.



The anxious Dems in the Senate need to get over their nervous nellyism and see to it that the obnoxious Lieberman lose his chairmanship. It will not have serious consequences if he goes into a snit. He's already in a perpetual snit, so deal with it.

Oh, did I mention that Ms. Maddow is gorgeous? And brilliant?

h/t to Markos
--the BB

There should be consequences for leaving the party

I'm not saying Joe Lieberman should be a social pariah but I do think that, inasmuch as he has left the Democratic Party, there is no reason he should be part of the Dem caucus or hold important chairs in the Senate.

I have sent e-mails to both Senator Bingaman and Senator-elect Udall making my views known. I may not sway them but they will hear a lot from me in the years to come, so I might as well get started.

The bottom line for me is two-fold: (1) he is a GOP enabler and (2) I don't trust him.

Let us not forget that his own party (at the time) rejected him in the Connecticut Democratic primary. That should tell you something. He only won as an independent in the general election because of Republican support.

Yes, I am partisan. I would prefer to rise above it but after the behavior of the GOP over the past three decades I am out to fight them in the trenches, on the beaches, in the woods, on the streets, at the polls, and online.
--the BB