Le Shorter: Goodbye, Joe

We will hardly miss you. Liberal activists dropped off a petition calling for Democratic leaders to remove Senator Joe Lieberman, who became an Independent from Connecticut in the 2006 election cycle, but who still caucuses with the Democrats, as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in the next Congress. The petition contained 43,000 signatures. Lieberman's outspoken support of John W. McBush is probably the last straw for fellow Democratic lawmakers. At this point in his political journey from Democratic vice-presidential candidate, and the prospect of a larger Democratic majority in the Senate, Lieberman is little more than a spy.