Gain Without Pain

Indications are that Senate Democrats will cave and allow Joe Lieberliar (Party of Me-CT) to retain his chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee. He's likely to be stripped of at least one subcommittee chairmanship, a slap on the wrist considering his behavior over the past year in opposing President-elect Obama's candidacy.

The Democrats will hold at least 57 seats in the Senate by January, so Lieberliar's not essential to hold a majority in the Senate, and he'd be totally unreliable if needed to break a filibuster by Rethugs. So why give him the satisfaction of knowing that he could slime the Democratic candidate (and campaign for Senate Rethugs up for reelection) and get away with it? They're going to regret letting Lieberliar off the hook.

UPDATE: As expected, Senate Dems voted to allow Lieberliar to retain his Homeland Security committee chairmanship; he was booted of an Environment and Public Works subcommittee as "punishment." He didn't apologize for campaigning for McBush. Moral: The Rethugs show up to play football, the Dems show up to play badminton.