Alter on Lieberman: "You don't want revenge to be too expensive"

[DCBob]

A compromise may be the best solution -- take his committee chairmanship away but let him stay in the caucus and give him some minor subcommittee to chair. I agree and I think that would fit the Obama-style of governing.

[BuyingThyme]

1. How 'bout he just gets a puppy.

[grantcart]

11. how about he cleans up after the puppy

[beac]

17. Seconded---- with his bare hands, preferably. n/t

[PretzelWarrior]

2. I want him humiliated, but not gone. Let him be a vote for Dems quite often.

and make everyone know

[NMDemDist2]

3. I think that's what Reid offered (according to huffpost) and Holy Joe refused

or at least asked for some time to think about it anyway.

[Chulanowa]

4. Obama's a better man than I

I would find a way to choke Lieberman with his own incompetence

[Unsane]

5. Subcommittee on Assholery

[DCBob]

13. or the Subcommittee on Traitors and Backstabbers

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. If Connecticut had a Democratic governor I'd say the best solution would be:

make him Secretary of Homeland Security.

Unfortunately, CT gov is a Republican.

[DCBob]

9. Yes. I heard someone else recommend something like that but the Repub Gov complicates that solution.

Maybe they can do a three way negotiation with the Gov and throw him a bone of some sort.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. no

even if it resulted in his replacement with dem, you do not reward his behavior, not if you want a functional political party.

[Cha]

19. Don't let lieberman near anything that

requires integrity.

I think it will work itself out..I hope.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. I'm missing what the expense would be.

Lieberman is one vote and that is all, and it is a vote that for the last 8 years has never been there when it really mattered. Fuck Joe.

As somebody else noted, this is it seems what Reid offered, and it is also likely that that fucking arrogant asshole said no thanks, as if he has a choice.

[xchrom]

8. hmmmm -- those seem like the tactics that left dems in the loser column.

how about dems BE dems -- let liberal/progressive republicans{which lieberman is} find their own way in the wilderness.

[Liberal Veteran]

12. Great idea! Let him wander in the wilderness for 40 years!

:D

[xchrom]

15. lieberman actually has a relevant future in a

'sane' republican future.
and this is whare that party is at.

[AlCzervik]

14. he can stay and caucus with the dems but will he if he's stripped of his chairmanship?

at this point i don't care, he does not deserve to keep it and that's not about revenge, it's about trust and it's gone, once that happens it doesn't come back.

[Smarmie Doofus]

16. He was elected with virtually the entire GOP vote in CT....

....and about 20% of DINO nutmeggers. 80% of CT DEMS wished to be represented by someone else.

He's effectively a republican and the DEM caucus no longer needs his vote.


This is an easy one.

[Cha]

18. Whatever lieman does in the senate, no matter

what they take away or not ..it's not going to be honorable.

How many times does he have to stab them in the back for them to get the message?

[Doctor_J]

20. Alter also said that Obama changed the electoral map so that he won't NEED

Holy Joe to get Senate approval for his agenda. He said that the fact that Iowa and Maine, for example, are now solidly blue (and, I would presume, MN) and thus people like Snowe and Collins and Grassley (!!) would be feeling some pressure to support Obama's proposals.

[Marsala]

21. Yeah, getting cloture votes is not quite as hard as full "Yes" votes

Especially when you only need about 4-5 of them.