Joe Lieberman Retains his Senate Chairmanship, and Bernie Sanders Is a Political Idiot

According to an article in today's (online) New York Times,

"Sen. Joe Lieberman will keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite hard feelings over his support for GOP nominee John McCain during the presidential campaign.
The Connecticut independent will lose a minor panel post as punishment for criticizing Obama this fall.
Lieberman's colleagues in the Democratic caucus voted 42-13 Tuesday on a resolution condemning statements made by Lieberman during the campaign but allowing him to keep the Homeland Security Committee gavel. He loses an Environment and Public Works panel subcommittee chairmanship, however."

The article concludes with a statement made Friday by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who opposed the move.

"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. Appointing someone to a major post who led the opposition to everything we are fighting for is not 'change we can believe in."'

Sanders is a self-described Socialist who caucuses with the Democrats, as does Lieberman. My response to Bernie's statement is this:

As usual, you oversimplified things. Lieberman did not "[lead] the opposition to everything we are fighting for." And Lieberman was not "appointed" as chairman, rather he was allowed to retain a position which he already held.

So this blog has now achieved its purpose. Their actions show that there’s hope for the Senate Democrats yet!