Mac vs. Joe: Where did our love go?

[babylonsister]

Mac vs. Joe: Where did our love go?

Posted February 25, 2009 3:39 PM
The Swamp



In happier days. (Photo by Carey Wagner/Sun-Sentinel.)

by James Oliphant


Seems like only yesterday John McCain was embarking on his final not-close-to-victory tour, with a beaming Joe Lieberman behind him every step of the way, a Sundance to his Butch on their way to their fateful encounter with the Bolivian army.

But the compadres were on opposite sides of a vote on the Senate floor Wednesday, with Mighty Mac having the audacity of trying to kill Joe's bill.

At issue is legislation that would grant the District of Columbia voting rights in the House. Under the bill, which survived a key procedural vote in the Senate Tuesday, the District would get a real, honest-to-goodness seat in Congress (and Utah would add a seat as part of the deal).

Right now, the District has a non-voting member in the House, Eleanor Holmes Norton.

Most Republicans hate the idea for reasons ranging from belief that it is unconstitutional, to pure antipathy for the District, to suspicions that if D.C. gets a House seat, it's only a matter of time before it ends up with two Senate seats, which likely would stay Democratic until the Earth falls into the Sun.:) Lieberman is a sponsor of the bill in the Senate.

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[gratuitous]

1. Let's settle this the only civilized way

Three-way steel cage death match: Lieberman, McCain and Eleanor Holmes Norton. Whoever walks out gets to decide.

My money would be on Norton, and it taking less than 30 minutes (29 of which would be Norton trying to catch Lieberman).

[ColbertWatcher]

3. The Colbert Nation loves Eleanor Holmes Norton.

Stephen will have her back.

[Missy Vixen]

2. Feelings...Fa fa fa feelingsssss......

Right now, just the thought of Joe Lieberman and John McCain is making me feel a bit nauseated.

:puke: