The Joementum Saga, Day 2
So Holy Joe is making threats now?
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has reached out to Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) about the prospect of joining the Republican Conference, but Lieberman is still bargaining with Democratic leaders to keep his chairmanship, according to Senate aides in both parties.
“Sen. Lieberman’s preference is to stay in the caucus, but he’s going to keep all his options open,” a Lieberman aide said. “McConnell has reached out to him, and at this stage, his position is he wants to remain in the caucus but losing the chairmanship is unacceptable.”
A Republican Senate aide said Friday morning that there was little McConnell could offer in terms of high-ranking committee slots, which is why Lieberman is resisting overtures from the Republican side.
Pardon me, but Lieberman has zero leverage here. His choices are a) give up his chairmanship in trade for a lesser role on a sub-committee and continue to caucus with the Democrats, or b) lose his chairmanship, get no lesser role with the Dems and caucus with the Republicans - who thought so much of his trash-mouthing Obama that they vetoed McCain's desire to name Lieberman as his VP in favor of a woman who can barely string a coherent sentence together.
If Joementum thinks he can steamroll the Dems - who will have a larger majority than they came into Election Day with even without him - then he's under an even bigger delusion than he was when he believed that McCain would beat Obama. Let him walk into irrelevance until he's voted out of office by the fine citizens of Connecticut in
Thanks to S Claustrophobia for pointing out that Holy Joe has four years left in his miserable political career, not two.