HuffPo: "Dems May Kick Lieberman Out Of Caucus If He Addresses GOP Convention As Planned"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Dems May Kick Lieberman Out Of Caucus If He Addresses GOP Convention As Planned... Would Lose Senate Committee Chairmanship... Colleagues See Speech As "Last Straw"



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/12/democrats-may-kick-out-jo_n_112351.html

Robert Novak reports that Democrats consider Joe Lieberman's planned address at the GOP Convention in September the "last straw" from their colleague from Connecticut:

Despite assurances to the contrary from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democratic insiders are certain Sen. Joseph Lieberman next year will be kicked out of the party's caucus and lose his Senate chairmanship if he addresses the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., as planned.

Lieberman's Democratic colleagues willing to accept his support of Sen. John McCain for president consider speaking to the GOP convention as the last straw. Lieberman was re-elected from Connecticut as an independent in 2006 after losing the Democratic nomination because of his support for the Iraq war.

[Swamp Rat]

1. It's about time!

[krispos42]

2. Yay!

So long, Rusty Trombone!

[antigop]

3. Nah, they'll just send him a warning letter and then do nothing. n/t

[baby_mouse]

4. Well, they might, actually. A bone to the dogs, now and then.

Wouldn't hurt.

[dkf]

5. do it do it do it do it!!!!

Damn I might even WANT to listen to him speak at the Repub convention.