Not to piss folks off any further...

But a reader asked what the process would be for removing Lieberman as committee chair if he acts up and starts investigating Obama, starts endorsing Republicans again, etc. It's not pretty. Senator Bayh pretty much lied on TV the other night when he said they could just remove him. They can't just remove him. It would take a vote before the entire Senate, Republicans included, and they'd need 51 votes to remove him - but then, it could be filibustered, so they'd really need 60 votes to remove him. Fat chance.

One more thing. I do enjoy Lieberman and his allies spinning this entire affair as bloggers being "angry" and wanting irrational "revenge." As I mentioned yesterday, this is the poker "tell" at play again. No one exemplifies anger and revenge better than Joe Lieberman who chose to betray his own party in a fit of personal pique because he wasn't popular enough to win his own primary. It was Lieberman's anger and revenge that got us into this mess in the first place.