LIEBERMAN-- BUSH'S MOLE IN THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS

When it became official that Jim Webb had ousted Macacawitz from his Virginia senate seat, it also became clear that Democrats would get to organize not just the House, long a foregone conclusion, but also the Senate. And that meant more than just Harry Reid becoming the Majority Leader and controlling the agenda. It also meant that Democrats would chair every committee, which is where all the serious work is done. And now, nearly 5 months later, Democrats do chair every committee-- except one. One so-called "independent," Joe Lieberman, one of Bush's closest allies in the Senate, was inexplicably given the chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Lieberman has been as much a Bush shill in his position as was his predecessor, rubber stamp Republican Susan Collins-- who Lieberman has already endorsed for re-election. Today's CongressDaily compares Lieberman's role as a committee chair to that of actual Democrats. "I will never look for a fight with the administration," Lieberman told the publication, the smell of shit strong on his foul breathe as he pulled his head out of George Bush's ass... grinning.

Unlike some Democratic committee chairmen, who have moved aggressively to investigate the Bush administration on such issues as the firings of U.S. attorneys to climate-change science, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Lieberman is pursuing a less-confrontational brand of oversight... Lieberman also said he has growing confidence in Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff, noting the challenges of turning nearly two dozen agencies into a cohesive department. Lieberman's view of investigating differs dramatically from that of House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Waxman, who took an aggressive approach immediately after taking the gavel.

What worried me, in fact, has something to do with not the contrasting styles between Waxman and Lieberman, but the contrasting intentions, one eager to uncover and one eager to assist with the cover ups. There is a great deal of damage Lieberman can do on behalf of his patrons inside the Bush Regime. Right now he is preparing a "probe" of the General Services Adminstration. Waxman's House committee has already shown that GSA Chief Lurita Doan had conspired with Karl Rove to politicize the GSA on behalf of Republican candidates like Lieberman's friend Collins. Lieberman, as he always does, will move quickly to muddy the waters and provide the Bush Regime with a flimsy context for undercutting the work of Waxman's committee.

It is a major failing of the Senate Democratic hierarchy, who first refused to meaningfully support Connecticut Democrats after they voted for Ned Lamont to be their candidate and then appointed Lieberman to a committee chairmanship, although he is clearly not a Democrat and is working for the Bush Regime, mole-like inside the Democratic caucus while he continues to rush to a mischievous national media to confuse voters by leading them to think narrowly partisan Bush Regime positions have "bipartisan" support.