Joe Lieberman's - McCain speech

Politics is such bullshit.

Joe Lieberman made a speech before the RNC in support of McCain and criticizing Obama's experience and as a result could potentially lose the chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The threat is that he could be removed from the Democratic Caucus which allows him to chair the committee.

Given that he's an independent, the sole solitary reason that he's still in the Caucus is the slim majority the Dems hold (49 R, 49 D and 2 I that causus with the Dems) in the Senate, otherwise he would have been long gone.

If this is what Lieberman honestly thinks, fine. However there's something inherently wrong in a system which penalizes and democratically elected representative from voicing the opionions of the people that chose him to represent them just because those opinions aren't the same as the rest of the party. It's not like this is any kind of epiphany, politics is, after all, all about power and not about representing the electorate.

A similar thing happened to Bill Casey of the Conservatives when he voted against his own party's budget last June because of changes that were made to the Atlantic Accord. He was expelled from Caucus and now sits as an independent.

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