Kick the Mo-Fo Out

Joe Lieberman, yesterday, in his never ending quest to become an irrelevant back bencher who is despised in both parties:

"Senator Hatch said to me that if we don't at least have the firewall of the filibuster in the Senate, that in many ways, America will not survive," said Beck on Tuesday.

"I hope it's not like that, but I fear," the Senator said. "I think the filibuster is key...It was really put there...somebody said to me when I first came to the Senate, '[to] stop the passions of a moment' among the people of America from sweeping across the Congress, the House, through the Senate, to a like-minded president and having us do things that will change America for a long time."

Look, I'm just fine with a big tent party. There is room, in our party, for conservative Democrats in conservative districts.

But the truth is, the primary voters of Connecticut, in their wisdom, kicked him out of the party two years ago. But I'd say with his speech at the RNC, his open support of the Republican nominee, and worst still his nasty rhetoric towards President-Elect Obama (man, do I love writing that), and now with his concern over the party he is still supposedly loyal to building a larger majority, I'd suggest that Leiberman has removed himself from that tent.

Thursday will be Senator Lieberman's "day of reckoning," according to a Capitol Hill paper.

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is scheduled to meet with Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) on Thursday to discuss his future in the Senate Democratic Conference, according to a Democratic Senate source," Tim Taylor reports for Roll Call.

Taylor notes that "a growing number of Senate Democrats have been pressuring Reid to penalize Lieberman for aggressively backing Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) in this year’s presidential contest," and that his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and his place in the Democratic Conference are both "at stake."

About damn time. The fact that we will not get to 60 (with or without Leiberman), I'd say, frees Reid up to do this in a way he couldn't afford it before. Throw him out. Strip him of his chairmanship, and kick him to the curb. At this point, who gives a damn whether he caucuses with the Republicans or not.