JOE THE GIANT

Posted at  7:06 a.m. ET

No sooner had Senate Democrats voted to forgive Joe Lieberman for his support of John McCain, and let him keep his main committee post, then the wisdom of that decision became clear.  Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, recently convicted of a laundry list of corruption-related offenses, was beaten in his bid for re-election, the tally announced only yesterday, giving the Dems at least 58 seats in the new Senate.  Georgia and Minnesota are still out.  If one of those goes Democratic, the Democrats would need only one more vote to get to 60 and break filibusters.  That vote could easily belong to...you know who.  Even if the Dems pick up two additional seats, Lieberman is gold-plated because there can be defections in filibuster votes.

Thus Joe stays alive, and more than alive.  The wing nuts of the left who tried to destroy him have repeatedly failed.  They are screaming across the internet this morning that he was not sufficiently punished.  Only hanging by the neck would seem to satisfy them.  These are people for whom political punishment, not achievement, is the highest priority.  They symbolize the mentality and adolescence of the far left, and eventually they always lose.

We congratulate Senator Lieberman, a man who represents all that was once good about the Democratic Party, when it was truly a national-security party that would "pay any price" in the defense of freedom,  The good old days.

November 19, 2008.