I have many more thoughts on this that will be on hold until tomorrow, but BooMan nails the back assward nature of the deal currently being reported between Senate Democrats and Joe Lieberman.

CNN reports, and MSNBC concurs, that Joe Lieberman will keep his gavel on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. Both outlets report that Lieberman will be stripped of one of his two subcommittee chairs. CNN (on teevee) specifies that it will be his subcommittee chair on the Environment & Public Works Committee. That would be the Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection. Big fucking deal. In other words, if this reporting is correct, Lieberman will be stripped of a subcommittee chair that presides over an issue where he votes with the Democrats, and left in charge of a full and subcommittee (Armed Services Subcommittee on Airland) where he votes against the Democrats. That’s fucking brilliant. I certainly hope the reporting is wrong. Fire away!!

Seriously, this is back asswards. It resembles the sort of bargain would expect someone who had never seen a political fight, new what oversight was, or had ever witnessed the US Senate operate. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Democratic Majority…