Senate Dems. will vote Tuesday on Lieberman -- and it's by secret ballot

We'll find out on Tuesday if the Democrats in the Senate will punish Joe Lieberman for his disgusting behavior during the campaign. They vote by secret ballot:

Senate Democrats will decide by secret ballot Tuesday whether to take away Sen. Joe Lieberman's chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee — a post from which he oversees U.S. security issues, as well as the operations of a wide segment of the federal government.

The anger over Lieberman's campaigning for the Republican presidential candidate is still boiling — fueled by memories of his undercutting Barack Obama, including in a nationally televised speech at the Republican National Convention.

Majority Leader Harry Reid met with Lieberman two days after the election, telling him that his chairmanship might be on the line.

But just as it looked as if his future in the Senate could be as a political hermit, the backlash against him has faltered. So Tuesday's vote — the talk of Capitol Hill — has become as uncertain as a stock market investment.

There are a lot of Senators who are peeved with Lieberman. Senators, who are all at their core politicians, often purport to be above politics. That's true of Democratic Senators, which is why they got rolled so often by Bush and the GOP. So, I'm thinking the secret ballot could work against Joe. They won't have to look him in the face.

Again, the Senators need to watch Jed's video before they vote -- and ask Al Franken, who is down by just 200 votes, how it felt to have Lieberman supporting Norm Coleman just weeks before the election: