There are a couple of people who have the politics of the Lieberman committee assignment right, like Daniel DeGroot and Markos. But we haven't hit the right narrative yet (and it's probably too late to do so).
Joe Lieberman's vote is for sale.
The price: his Homeland Security Committee chairmanship.
We need to PUSH the narrative that Joe's thinly veiled threats about losing his committee chair being "unacceptable" are basically another way of saying, "If you want my vote, you'll have to pay for it."
Lieberman has already committed political suicide, first by running as an Independent, and then by backing McCain and other Republicans. If Lieberman were to defect to the Republican caucus, he would only be kicking his own political corpse. If our side had been able to put more pressure on Lieberman, such that everyone would clearly see his potential defection to the GOP for what it is--selling his vote--there is no way that he would be in the position he is now, holding all the cards in his standoff with Senate leadership.
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