Asked what it would mean if Lieberman kept his chairmanship, one Senate Democratic aide said bluntly: "The left has been foiled again. They can rant and rage but they still do not put the fear into folks to actually change their votes. Their influence would be in question."

I hope this puts to rest the notion that this is all some master stroke of kumbayah, of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer.

This is about telling you that you mean nothing. That democracy is a nice word, but it should never threaten the entitlement of the most exclusive club in the world.

No matter what Joe Lieberman does, the people who are protecting him hate you much more than they hate him.

And what the dems be saying six months from now when Holy Joe is finally holding hearings in his committee, investigating Obama people for firing DHS & DOJ people planted by the bushies? Dammit, dems, we gave you the White House & both houses of Congress, could you possibly be persuaded to use it for the good of ‘we the people’ or will you prove for all time that you only serve the same corporate masters as your ‘opposition’?