I Wish My Democratic Senator Was Smart.
Senator Patrick Leahy left no doubt whatsoever: He believes Lieberman should be given the push.
“Every Senator will have to vote the way he or she believes they should,” Leahy said, in a reference to the upcoming vote on Lieberman’s fate in the Dem caucus next week. “I’m one who does not feel that somebody should be rewarded with a major chairmanship after doing what he did.”
“I felt some of the attacks that he was involved in against Senator Obama…went way beyond the pale,” Leahy continued. “I thought they were not fair, I thought they were not legitimate, I thought they perpetuated some of these horrible myths that were being run about Senator Obama.”
“I would feel that had I done something similar,” Leahy concluded, “that I would not be chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the next Congress.”
Bernie Sanders, also of Vermont, sent us a hard-hitting statement demanding that Lieberman get the push — and strikingly, he said that if Dems didn’t remove him, it would be an insult to Barack Obama’s supporters and a betrayal of the change mandate voters delivered to the President-elect.
“To reward Senator Lieberman with a major committee chairmanship would be a slap in the face of millions of Americans who worked tirelessly for Barack Obama and who want to see real change in our country,” Sanders in the statement sent our way by his office.
“Appointing someone to a major post who led the opposition to everything we are fighting for is not ‘change we can believe in,’” Sanders continued. “I very much hope that Senator Lieberman stays in the Democratic caucus and is successful in regaining the confidence of those whom he has disappointed. This is not a time, however, in which he should be rewarded with a major committee chairmanship.”
I wish my senator was smart like this.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
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