Howard Dean Is Fine With Senate's Lieberman Decision, Suggests It Was What Obama Wanted

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Source: TPM Election Central

Howard Dean Is Fine With Senate's Lieberman Decision, Suggests It Was What Obama Wanted
By Greg Sargent - November 18, 2008, 1:59PM

Howard Dean says that he's "fine" with the Senate's decision not to kick Joe Lieberman off the Homeland Security committee and suggested that the Senate had acted in accordance with what Barack Obama wanted.

In a phone interview with me just after the vote concluded, I asked Dean if he thought the Senate should keep Lieberman. He said that the Senate had acted "in the spirit of unification, which is what the President-elect wanted."

"He called the shots, and that's fine," Dean said, in an apparent reference to the tone Obama has tried to set in Washington as he prepares to take power.

Dean also said he understood the natural human desire for "revenge," a description that will dismay many of Dean's allies in the liberal blogosphere, who maintain (as do I) that this wasn't solely about retribution.




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[dflprincess]

1. So, expecting Democrats to actually stand for something is a

"desire for revenge". That attitude does not bode well for us.

[marylanddem]

3. I'm with you. I don't need to be lectured by Howard Dean.

[WeDidIt]

9. Yup, Change = more of the same

Shit.

[Solly Mack]

2. wonder when Bush is gonna reward Lieberman with the medal of freedom

[blm]

4. If Obama didn't get something NECESSARY for this country in trade, I will be furious.

And I mean something REALLY IMPORTANT, like Universal Healthcare or support for Iraq withdrawal or Supreme Court. And I would bet that his talk with McCain and Graham yesterday was part of the deal.

It better had, anyway.

[madrchsod]

6. i think john knows the republican party hates him

if he wants to redeem himself he`s going to do what ever he can to help barack. graham will sit it out until he can cover himself if he votes for obama`s programs ..after all he wants be be reelected

[blm]

7. Graham was just re-elected in SC. He's safe for next 6yrs.

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[madrchsod]

8. did`t know that.thanks

[madrchsod]

5. barack has joey by the balls

and joey has no one that`s going to feel sorry for him. barack knows what he`s doing.....

[goforit]

10. Well, if there is a break in our security of our homeland Lieberman will be at

fault. And he alone will get his wish of victimization that he so longs for.