Reid:  No Decisions Have Been Made On Lieberman's Fate

Read:  No decisions have been announced on LieberSchmuck's fate.

It Is Time For Him To Go.

I'd like to think Harry Reid left Holy Joe with the options: "We can do this the easy way or the hard way, it's up to you." Elections have consequences, Senator Lieberman.

Lieberman will be out as Homeland Sec. Chair. If he's not, I will personally go to his hearing room in DC and put a tack on his chair every time he tries to hold a hearing.

Then when he sits down and pokes his wrinkled old ass, I'll yell up to him, "ha, ha, asshole, you think trashing Obama has no consequences?"

That'll show him.

Reid will reveal his capacity for leadership on this issue of LIEberman. Reid has shown that he has no real backbone and with Obama in the White House how tough a call can this be...He is letting the GOP and their use of the filibuster control his actions which are certainly NOT putting this country's interest first. Come on Harry, you were a boxer at one time and are you not going to answer the bell?

How can Senator Reid be so hesitant to strip Lieberman of his chairmanships? I thought campaigning for the other guy and calling the now president-elect "dangerous" was a good enough reason to do that, maybe I was wrong. I'll be sorely disappointed if Reid allows Lieberman to continue in a prominent position in Congress. It's really time for Joe and his Joe-mentum to stop caucusing with the Democrats.

Well, I'll withhold judgment, I guess, until decisions actually have been made, but if Reid decides to do nothing, that's a heckuva message to send. Had Joe's candidate been successful, the country would have been significantly worse off. Therefore, there has to be some consequence for Lieberman backing a disastrous candidate.

Harry? Not to be crude, but grow a pair, would you?

Looking for a word to describe Ol' Joe - somebody with real Yiddish skills help me out please - what's the opposite of mensch?

So how do we get organized to get Lieberman out? I wrote to Sen. Reid, but what else should I do?

I find this situation very irritating. I contributed to the DSCC this year so that Democrats would hold leadership positions in the Senate. Joe Lieberman is not longer a Democrat.

Quit bitching at the thread - here's who to bitch at to get something done:

http://democrats.senate.gov/steering/index.cfm?pg=6

Click on an image and you go to the member's website.

How can Lieberman say with a straight face that he should continue to serve as Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs when he was actively selling McCain/Palin to the country and surely was in-the-loop with just how much of a trainwreck Palin was.

I could care less about Joe L. Instead if Harry Reid wants to remain in that position he should start showing some and lead by example.
If not, lets put someone there that can deal with the problem.
Again, the problem is not with Joe (he is what he is), but with the leaders afraid of making decisions that convey the sentiment of the base.

I realize that some will probably think that I am off my f'king rocker, however, I believe that LieberPutz should remain as if his despicable actions never happened.

The reasons I say this is because this would be exactly what the Republicans would do if the situation we reversed. We are better then that and must demonstrate it, as much as I hate to admit, I want his ass out. This, by removing him, is not what Barack meant when he talks about inclusion and reaching out to those that opposed him or vote for "the other".

I voted for Barack and believe he will succeed only if he and we can put the past behind us and move forward.

Thank You

Respectfully,

-shacon

Remember that Obama didn't go all out for Lamont because Lieberman begged him. Then Lieberman threw Obama under the bus for McCain and a shot VP. Obama probably was telling Joe what a bitch ass snake he was during that arm nudge thing caught on camera on the Senate floor. Now Joe the loser is back trying to play like he did nothing wrong.

Joe must go.

Holy Joe is living proof that McCain was not the only one who did a poor job vetting his VP choice.

Joe L. needed to be kicked out the minute Dem's reached 51 without him. Sixty is not relevant.
Voting to invoke cloture is not a caucus vote, it is an individual Senator's vote based on the issue at hand. The only use Lieberman ever had to the Democrats the last two years was in organizing as the majority and controlling the committee chair positions and staff. Kiss his bottom bye-bye.

That's THE math.

We really need a new Majority Leader, someone with more backbone and more charisma. Reid was okay for the past couple of years, when the Dems had but a razor-thin majority, but he's not forceful enough to help Obama accomplish passage of his legislative agenda. The next couple of years are critical to achieving any of the big-ticket items that will require expenditure of precious political capital (e.g., universal health care, ending the Iraq War) and we can't afford to fail because our Senate leader was too namby-pamby, too willing to "reach across the aisle" to compromise with the same GOP jerks who wouldn't give Dems the time of day when THEY were in charge.

I don't have much knowledge about the inner workings of the Senate, etc., but what are the chances that Obama will play a role in Reid's decision? I'm just curious how this decision might affect Obama's legislative agenda or if Obama might pressure Reid to let it go in the new spirit of "bipartishanship". Anyone have any insight?

There was a time when backers of failed coups were expected to do the honorable thing and fall on their swords. Actions have consequences and Lieberman can't expect to get off.

I suspect Reid is trying to see what the mood of other Democrats is on the subject and he's also waiting to see how the other races play out. If the rest of the caucus is on the warpath, Joe's out. I suspect something short of that is in the cards. If he's stripped of his chairmanship, what additional benefit is there to kicking him out of the caucus? I don't see any. This should not be about revenge. It should be about Lieberman being held accountable for his actions. Being stripped of his chairmanship is actually a pretty severe blow.

Y'all are real funny, and utterly clueless, with assertions of Reid's lack of a spine. He called GW a liar to his face at the White House during the height of Bush's popularity. Who else in the Senate had the guts to do that?

You mistake Reid's unwillingness to publicly air dirty laundry with lack of decisiveness. If Lieberman broke his word with Reid during the election, and I suspect that he did, Reid will gut him in the caucus. Lieberman might be allowed to chair the Curds and Whey Committee.

Reid is a man of his word, and can be trusted to keep his end of the bargain. This, along with his generous leadership PAC assures that he will remain as the Senate Majority leader if he chooses.

Can we make a decision on Reid's future in the Senate, please? What do we have to do to get Russ Feingold in the Leader's seat? Is this an election we the people can have? I know, I know, he hasn't raised enough gd money.

I want Lieberman gone. His behavior, endorsing McCain, speaking at the R's convention, then campaigning for McCain and trashing Obama along the way, make him a conservative Republican in all but name, and a goner as far as I'm concerned. What I would do, though is wait until the Senatorial issues are settled in AK, GA, and MN before taking action against him.

Truth of the matter is, Lieberman and Reid need to go! Talk tough Harry has done more caving than Vavoom (for you Felix the Cat fans).

Dump Lieberman. And after that dump Reid. He & Pelosi were unusually, suspiciously ineffective the past two years. I began to mistake them for Republicans in Democrat's clothing. We need two progressive, combative leaders in the House and Senate, not these two panty-waists who refuse to fight over anything. Get rid of them now, please.

Write Harry Reid here and expess yourselves.

http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Thank You.

Lieberman and McCain are about to become two of the loneliest people on Capitol Hill. The parties that each has given decades to want nothing to do with them. In McCain's case, the wingnuts have always seen him as a traitor because he was never doctrinaire enough for their tastes. Lieberman always knew this was an all-or-nothing proposition for him, since once he cast his lot, there was no turning back. Further, since the GOPs won't have him for love nor money, Lieberman's only future lay with a McCain win. Talk about burning bridges! I'd bet that there are a lot of Dems out there that would open the door for McCain to caucus with them before letting Joe come in out of the cold.

In California they have recalls on elected officials - That's how they ended up with Arnold. Does CT have this type of process? Can he be recalled? Fighting a recall initiative would drain his campaign funds. I cannot endure anymore of this whiny old man. I'm writing to Durbin (my other Senator). Who else can we petition? Can some sort of web petition start?

Also, if Stevens returns to the Senate he'll most likely be expelled (at least Reid "promised" that). So will the Dems pick up a seat or will Palin appoint Todd to that seat? How does that work? Will there be a special election? I think each state handles it differently.