Say goodbye to Joe

Senator Joe Lieberman’s chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security committee is coming up for a secret vote, with Senators like Schumer and Durbin working to ax him from the job because of his support for McPalin, and Bill Clinton making calls to save his bacon. Now, that sounds ironic, since Lieberman came to fame with his moralizing speech taking Clinton to task during the Monica mess, but I always thought that smelled funny. The pious old fraud’s hit was probably sanctioned by Bill & Hill, and now Clinton is returning the favor. (This may foretell Bill’s ability to interfere with the new progressive majority’s desire for change; does the Great Triangulator still have the mojo to steer us rightward?)

Lieberman’s been liberal on some social issues, but his core constituency is made up of Connecticut’s insurance industry, and the likudniks and other Israel-firsters determined to abort any viable Palestinian state. He also claims that people without superstitious belief in an invisible sky god can’t be moral. Fuck that theocratic nonsense! He’s got nothing the new America needs. Throw him out of the Democratic caucus, and strip him of his chairmanship, already.