The dynamics of the whole thing seem to be interesting. We had Obama’s statement (which I see as correct, he is President elect, and should give the Senate its due) where he said that it was a Senate matter, and now the Clintons are denying that they were making calls supporting Lieberman.

Also, we have reports that Schumer and Durbin Lieberman removed as head of the Homeland Security Committee, and since Schumer raised a lot of money for the incoming Senators, this may be a big factor.

TPM is now confirming that
the full Democratic caucus will vote on his remaining DHS chair, and so this makes Chris Bowers’ whip count interesting reading.

I don’t think that Dems should eject Lieberman from the caucus, but he should not be a chairman, with subpoena power, of anything beyond the knitting committee.