Would somebody in charge please throw Senator Joe Lieberman out of the Democratic Pary? If he were Catholic I would vote for him to be excommunicated. I’ve had it with this turn coat, treasonous Democrat in name only.

Lieberman’s latest outrage is his endorsement and vocal support of Senator John McCain. It’s hard to believe that 8 years ago the Senator from Connecticut was chosen as the Vice Presidential candidate by Democratic Presidential nominee Al Gore. The NY Times reports this week that Lieberman is technically an independent but…he is skipping the Democratic National Convention, after being stripped of his super delegate status and may turn up as this election season’s Zell Miller at the Republican National Convention instead. Lieberman didn’t even wait until McCain was the presumptive nominee of the GOP, he endorsed his old buddy back in December. Besides being stripped of his super delegate status the only other fall out from Lieberman’s endorsement of the GOP candidate is his official portrait has been removed from the Connecticut Democratic Party Headquarters…oh, the shame of it all!

In his 2006 re-election campaign, Lieberman ran and won as an independent but pledged his support to a Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Lieberman apparently had a change of heart after traveling to Iraq with Senator McCain in November 2007. After that trip Lieberman gave McCain his endorsement and he doesn’t shy away from talk of a cabinet post in the McCain administration. The NY Times says Lieberman accompanied Mr. McCain to a prayer breakfast recently and said, “I’ll do whatever I can for John.”

I think one of Senator Lieberman’s constituents Mary Hadley, a retiree from New Haven sums it up best, “It’s typical Lieberman: He doesn’t represent us. He needs to switch to the Republican Party, is what he needs to do. It’s like come out of the closet man.”

I couldn’t have said that better myself. Lieberman needs to have his committee chairmanship and seniority privileges taken away by the Democratic Party. For those who worry about the delicate balance of power in the Senate, I would say “with friends like Lieberman-who needs enemies?”