According to the Courant, Connecticut Democrats are about to go squishy on Joe Lieberman.
[A]censure resolution drafted in September, when Lieberman still was jetting about with John McCain and Sarah Palin, is getting a rewrite before this week’s Democratic State Central Committee meeting.
“We’re in the process of updating the resolution to be more reflective of the current time and situation,” said Audrey Blondin of Litchfield, one of two committee members who proposed the censure.
Words like “censure” are certain to disappear. So is any suggestion that Lieberman end his affiliation as a registered Democratic voter in Connecticut.
Instead?
“An expression of disappointment, an expression of disapproval,” Blondin said. “And let it go at that.”
Before I go further, I want to point out that the list in this article of towns that have passed anti-Lieberman resolutions is short by at least one. We here in Groton passed a resolution months ago, but then we here in Eastern Connecticut are always ignored. Not a single town east of the river is listed, save Glastonbury, which is an honorary part of Hartford.
Getting back to my main point, assuming I have one, I am thinking of offering my betting companion a double or nothing wager. I am willing to bet, provided the stakes are low enough, that Joe will be welcomed back, albeit grudgingly, to the Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey dinner next year. Will it be like old times? No. But will the usual suspects gather around him, and glad hand him as if nothing has happened? To that I venture a qualified yes. Nobody suffers from battered wife syndrome as much as Democrats, and the higher placed they are, the more susceptible to the disease.
The larger question is whether Joe can worm his way back into the good graces of enough Democrats to try to get the party’s nomination in 2012. Even Zell Miller had the good grace to retire after his bit of treachery.
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