Removing Joseph Lieberman from the Chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee would be an act of extreme pettiness,

More of less petty than threatening to caucus with Republicans – take his football and go home – if he doesnt get to play quarterback.

CT Democrats rejected Joe in 2006, Joe who campaigned for McCain, Collins, and Coleman in 2008, not their Democratic rivals.

Seriously, what are the consequences of disloyalty and the benefits of being a team players?

Joe Leiberman is as asshat.

a) Any money we give them will only go to pay off their bondholders, creditors, both of whom shouldn’t be bailed out under any circumstances, since they acted as enablers in this fiasco. To recapitalize them without discharging debts would as mention cost $100’s of billions.
b) Structurally they are both permanently impaired; they can’t shed dealers except at high buyout cost, they can’t shed workers or entitlement obligations, and they can’t shed/shutdown brands without buying out dealers and P.O’ing customers.

Unfortunately, the only way to for them to remain viable going forward is a Federally supported pre-packaged C11 bankruptcy with gov’t help for pension/healthcare obligations as well as interim Debtor in Possession financing. Both can be fully rehabilitated as highly competitive companies with good worker wages/benefits, but only after they shed excess debt, unnecessary product lines and dealers, excess labor (the literally insane ‘jobs bank’), and offload (BK reduced) legacy benefit costs to the gov’t where they belong anyway.

The management teams at Ford and GM have screwed up for the last 30yrs, and deliberately choose not to file C11 when they could/should have more easily 1-2yrs ago, specifically to force the gov’t to bailout their criminal stupidity. It would be the quintessence of moral hazard to reward this fraudulent behavior.

No. F’ing. Way. to a non-C11 bailout.

If Lieberman is allowed to keep his chair he will become this decades Ken Starr and launch investigation after investigation on every single little non-issue that the GOP will scream about less we forget how important it was to investigate Bill Clinton’s Christmas cards but they didn’t seem too concerned about Bushco.’s failure to protect the country during 9/11, the destruction of NO during Katrina, the illegal war started on lies, the illegal wiretapping of US citizens and the authorization of TORTURE to be used on prisoners.

Let’s face it, they don’t want to boot him because he’s Jewish and they don’t want to offend Israel.

He never questioned Senator Obama’s patriotism

On the campaign trail Lieberman repeatedly said the Obama did not want to “win the war in Iraq, but McCain did.” Lieberman went into his explanation that withdraw from Iraq would mean the US would lose the war and McCain, willing to stay indefinitely, until we achieved “victory” was the patriotic thing to do and to withdraw was unpatriotic. This was a central part of Lieberman’s speech as he introduced his friend McCain in town hall meeting all across the country.

You have come to the wrong place my friend to try to pull the wool over our eyes!