And now there are four...

This is unexpected. Joining Senators Leahy, Sanders and Dorgan, long time cohort of Joe Lieberman, Sen. Tom Carper, a regional chair of Lieberman's failed 04 bid for the presidency, "said the Connecticut Independent should pay a price for his campaign attacks against President-elect Barack Obama." He told The Hill on Monday,"There need to be consequences, and they cannot be insignificant."

I'm still not that happy with the closed door session, but maybe this won't turn out quite the way I expected after all. I would be very happy to be wrong and see Lieberman pay some meaningful price for his choices.

Update: The Politico posts the scenario for how it will go down and quote "insider Democrats" as giving Joe good odds on keeping the DHS Committee gavel.

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