Grrrrrr...

Democrats: STOP DOING STUPID THINGS LIKE THIS!

WASHINGTON — Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-independent from Connecticut, was allowed to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday despite his support for Senator John McCain in the presidential campaign.

Look, Mr. Lieberman has made it perfectly clear that he does not particularly like the Democratic party. In 2006 he decided that since he lost the Democratic primary he would create his own party just to stay in office. He has spent the past year campaigning for John McCain! Seriously, that's about as big of a "Screw you!" as you can get without involving some form of physical weaponry.

He's not any sort of asset to the Democratic party. LET HIM GO. This is why the Dems can never actually do anything - they're too focused on being nice and not offending people and finding compromise. We are not at a point where we need moderation and centrism; we're at a point where we need liberal leaders (oooh, yeah, I said liberal, not progressive!) to stand up and say that they will not put up with this crap anymore. Obama is right - we do need change, but we're not going to get change by being spineless and sitting in the middle of the road.

The far right, especially the religious freaks, are not afraid to say and do controversial things and be assholes. We need to learn a lesson from them and fight fire with fire. Stop pandering, stop compromising, and tell that asshole Lieberman he's not a Democrat, he stopped being a democrat in 2006 (when he gave the least classy concession speech ever), and he is not a friend to the Democratic Party.