Too little, too late, Traitor Joe

With the election looming and his atrocious behavior about to come back and bite him in the ass, Joe Lieberman is trying to throw some cash at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in an effort to retain his gavel as chair of the Homeland Security committee. To that end, he has written two $100,000 checks to the DSCC in the last year.

We have no doubt that Chuck Schumer appreciates the recent outpouring of largess, but something tells me that it is going to take more than a hundred grand to get out of the doghouse with most Senate Democrats. He is most likely going to be the keynote speaker at the republican nominating convention, for Christ's sake, and he has been filling the role of attack-dog for months, and people have been paying attention to his warmongering rhetoric. We were paying attention a couple of months ago when Obama pulled him aside and called his ass out.

When Harry Reid was asked about Lieberman's chances of retaining his gavel after January he basically told the reporter asking the question to wait and see what next year brings, and moved on.

Joe should have maybe put down the shovel and stopped digging a long time ago. Whatever he does now is going to be too little, too late. Hell yes, he should be stripped of his chairmanship, and he should be kicked out of the Democratic caucus. I am even willing to take it a step farther. I am in favor of censuring him publicly from the well of the senate and in full view of all stripping him of every perk and trapping of the senate. You chose to be a man without a party, Traitor Joe. Lie down and sleep in the bed you have made, asshole.

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Sandbagging at the DoJ

The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, is preparing subpoenas for hundreds of pages of documents relating to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys that have been withheld from committee investigators. Those investigators have been allowed to view the documents in question, but they have not been issued the copies requested by the committee.

As this latest clash between the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Gonzales DoJ unfolds, the Senate Appropriations Committee, chaired by Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, cancelled a long-scheduled appearance by AG Gonzoles.

Mikulski cited a crisis of confidence in the leadership of the DoJ, and will not consider a requested increase in the departments operating budget until the matter of the improperly fired U.S. Attorney’s is resolved. Mikulski’s decision to cancel the hearing denies the AG a chance to “test drive” his cover story for a Senate Committee before his scheduled April 17 appearance before the Judiciary Committee.

The subpoenas are scheduled to be served on Thursday of next week, and the House Judiciary Committee has already approved subpoenas for the same withheld documents.

The revelation of these withheld documents has led Sen. Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York to renew his call for Gonzales to resign, questioning his ability to lead under the circumstances he has created and a department in shambles. "He cannot talk about the funding and functioning of the Justice Department until he clears the air on U.S. attorneys," Schumer said.

Trust in Gonzales ability to lead his department is non-existent among the Democrats on Capitol Hill who hold the majority in both chambers.

This instance of withheld documents is fuel on the fire, in the wake of last weeks testimony by former Gonzales chief of staff Kyle Sampson, who implicated the AG in several lies with his sworn testimony last week.

The next two weeks are going to be interesting for us political wonks, to say the least.

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