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Aides to Senate Democratic leaders say Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman will be ousted as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee as payback for his Obama-bashing GOP convention speech — but only if the Democrats add four or five more seats to their slim Senate majority in November.
The Democrats’ anger with Lieberman has reached the boiling point, but it’s not yet clear whether his Senate colleagues are peeved enough to boot the party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee from the Democratic Caucus entirely.
Salon.com Politics | Top Lieberman staffer quits
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On the day Joe Lieberman returned to the Senate after speaking to the Republican convention, his legislative director, Joe Goffman, resigned. And Goffman doesn't have a new job lined up yet.
If he did resign because of his boss's most overt move to the Republican Party to date, Goffman isn't saying. But it is peculiar to see a top staffer leave without giving a reason or having his next move in mind. And Goffman, who was promoted to the position before Lieberman lost the 2006 Democratic primary for his Senate seat to Ned Lamont, has some liberal credentials to protect. He was, for 12 years, a senior attorney at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Aides to Senate Democratic leaders say Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman will be ousted as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee as payback for his Obama-bashing GOP convention speech — but only if the Democrats add four or five more seats to their slim Senate majority in November.
The Democrats’ anger with Lieberman has reached the boiling point, but it’s not yet clear whether his Senate colleagues are peeved enough to boot the party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee from the Democratic Caucus entirely.
Well, if he's Secretary of State or Defense, he won't have to worry about it.
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