Jim DeMint is My Hero

Who said I was an ideologue? Let them fall silent, for today, unlike those 13 namby-pamby Dimmycrats who wouldn't publicize their votes against Lieberman, Senator Jim DeMint of the Palmetto State put his name to a resolution to expel Ted Stevens from the Senate, thereby earning praise from these quarters. Not only that, while Mitch McConnell was speaking, DeMint said he had the ten-and-a-half:

"After talking with many of my colleagues, it's clear there are sufficient votes to pass the resolution regarding Senator Stevens."

Making DeMint's assault on Stevens even more brazen, the whole process of retribution may be moot, because Begich is up by some thousand of votes.

Clearly, this is a choice based on principle, not expediency. A reformed conservative movement will stand on principle, and that means kicking the bums out. Even when the voters have already done so. Nothing better than a surreptitious kick to the balls...

As for the Democrats' vote on Lieberman, IHT offers some tidbits:

Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Pat Leahy, D-Vt., spoke against allowing Lieberman keep the Homeland Security and Government Affairs post. Reid, Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and John Kerry, D-Mass., were among those speaking in his favor, according to a Democratic aide, who spoke anonymously to discuss a private meeting.

Some, like Iowan Tom Harkin, still harbor hard feelings for statements Lieberman made during the campaign. Harkin took particular offense when Lieberman said a vote against funding the war in Iraq without a deadline for a troop withdrawal meant Obama had voted to cut off funding for troops in harm's way.

As near as I can tell, from hints in this one and the articles above, those agin' Leebs: Sanders, Leahy, Harkin?, Casey? More speculatively: Byrd?, Webb?, Feingold?, Feinstein?, Kennedy?

For Leebs: Reid, Durbin, Kerry, Salazar, Dodd, Klobuchar, Nelson (NE), Nelson (FL), Carper (DE), Cardin, Landrieu.
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