Stop Joe Lieberman? Fat Chance.
I got about 10 emails this morning from various political groups to which I belong, all with the same theme: send us money to help us stop Joe Lieberman from killing health insurance reform.Right. Lieberman is a monumental ego and a jackass of the first rank. The Democrats made a colossal mistake when he ran as an independent after being defeated in his own party's primary in the last election. They welcomed him into the party fold despite his despicably disloyal behavior in backing McCain-Palin and several down-ticket GOP candidates. They let him caucus with them. They even gave him a plum chairmanship, that of the Homeland Security Committee. He repaid them by "mavericky" behavior and now by threatening to blow up his (supposedly) party's leader's primary domestic agenda item. There's no way to stop him but the Democrats should punish him to the maximum extent. Strip him of his chairmanship. Bar him from the caucus. Rip away the Groton Submarine depot funding in his home state of Connecticut and any other earmarked funds he's wangled. He wants to be an independent? Make him function like one. The man's a disgrace to his party and, in this case at least, to his country and his constituents (68% of whom favor the public option he opposes). He is so deeply in the insurance companies' pockets, he'll be there after the lint has been vacuumed out. Time to go, Joe!
