REMOVE Lieberman From All Democratic Committee Assignments ACTION >>

[helderheid]

TELL HARRY REID TO STRIP LIEBERMAN OF ALL DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE POSITIONS

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Ned Lamont won a major victory for the Democratic Party in Connecticut. However, Senator Joe Lieberman has self-proclaimed himself a martyr of partisanship. Lieberman has decided to file petitions and run against the democratic nominee in November because Joe is for Joe not the Democratic Party he feigned to represent. I believe that Joe Lieberman has now earned the partisanship of which he so loudly professed to be a victim.

While every major Democrat calls for defeated Joe Lieberman to do the right thing and abandon his Independent bid for the CT Senate seat, when asked if "anyone" could call and get him to change his mind, he said, "Respectfully, no." He refuses to listen to the leaders of the Party that made him their nominee for Vice President in 2000. Of course he stopped listening to his constitutents a long time ago on the issues they cared about. He sure doesn't respect the results of their primary election.

While this all is happening, Karl Rove, reportedly passed on an offer by Bush to help saying, "the boss wants to help anyway he can." And just why is the top Republican political operative so interested in helping Joe Lieberman? He's just the kind of "petty partisan" they like best, the kind that votes REPUBLICAN when it really matters.

Please join me in asking your Senators to call on Harry Reid to strip Joseph Lieberman of all committee assignments. Lieberman no longer represents Democratic values, only his own narcissistic political career. It's time for the Democratic Party to stop listening to Joseph Lieberman, if they themselves are listening to their own constituents at all.

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[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. I strongly disagree with that course of action.

If/when the scumbag wins the election, we NEED him to caucus with Democrats. For the few weeks leading up to the election, his committee assignments mean nearly nothing - very little is actually going to be done in Congress during this time. It would be little more than a symbolic move that few people will understand, and it's a move that could potentially cost us a majority. This would NOT be wise in any way, shape, or form.

You must keep a mind to what is most important, and that would be getting control of the country away from the Republicans.

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Helderheid, Reid can't strip Liebermann of his committee posts, here's why

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2798748
from this post:

"The membership in Senate committees is decided at the start of every Congress with a haggled-out thing called an "organizing resolution." The entire Senate votes on it and it usually passes by unanimous consent. Organizing resolutions can also happen when party shake-ups occur in the middle of a Congress, like when Vermont's Jim Jeffords bolted from the GOP in 2001.

To give Joe his well-deserved comeuppance by taking him off committees and effectively making him the most junior member of the Senate, Reid would have to formally propose an amendment to the current organizing resolution, manage to get it to a vote and then get every Democrat and a handful of Republicans to vote for a new committee organization sans Lieberman. If Majority Leader Bill Frist decided to filibuster Reid's action, 60 votes would be required to keep it alive.

Based on that procedural construct, Harry Reid can't just unilaterally, or even by a closed vote of the Democratic caucus, strip Lieberman of his committee assignments"