Recently I passed on a suggestion from the comments that the Democrats in the Connecticut State Legislature should use their veto proof majority to keep Jodi Rell from appointing a replacement for Joe Lieberman, should Joe decide to depart for greener pastures. State Representative Tim O’Brien, (D. New Britain/Newington) wrote in to say that he proposed such a bill in the last session, and he’s planning to do so again this session. You can read the bill here. I thought I should promote this out of comments because 1) state legislators who do good things should be recognized, and 2) I’m not sure how many people read comments, and this is something that people should know about. I wrote my state legislators (and a couple of others) on this yesterday; so far no response from any of them. It seems like a no brainer, really. A companion bill to prevent the type of third party run he pulled in 2006 might be a good idea as well.
Speaking of Joe Lieberman, there was a piece about his McCain endorsement on the Olbermann show yesterday, in which there was a clip of Joe justifying his action by saying that none of the Democrats had asked for his endorsement and McCain had asked. Olbermann’s stand-in asked E.J. Dionne why none of the Democrats had asked, and for reasons that seem mysterious to me, Dionne danced around the answer. The same Democrats who ran interference for Joe in 2006 (looking at you Hillary and Barack) now realize that an endorsement from him would be the kiss of death in 2008. There’s not a one of them who wouldn’t be tempted to pay him to endorse one of their opponents.
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