Joementum Blues

Joe Lieberman went from vice-presidential candidate in 2000 to being on the verge of being kicked out of his own party.

Lieberman's legislative director Joe Goffman resigned. Goffman did not give a reason. The timing is strange. Goffman resigned the day Lieberman returned to Congress. Lieberman gave a speech bashing Barack Obama, at the Republican Convention.

Harry Reid spokesman Jim Manley told the media, "The Democratic Caucus will likely revisit Lieberman’s situation after the November elections." Reid has privately been telling Democtats that will lose the chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs, if Democrats get 55 or 56 seats. Things have gotten so bad that Lieberman will not attend the Democratic policy lunches.

"I think it's probably wise for me and for my colleagues in the Democratic caucus to dine somewhere else for the next few weeks," Lieberman said in an interview with The Hill.

That is the understatement of the year.