Senator Sanctimony's Scare, cont'd

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It's been a tough week for the junior senator from Connecticut. First, his approval rating is determined to be cratering, and now his boy is shown to be a nonentity in the state.

Obama is leading McCain by 56 percent to 35 percent among likely Connecticut voters in a poll Quinnipiac University released Wednesday.

So much for Holy Joe's bipartisan endorsement. But it gets worse.

Several liberal groups said they will submit a petition to U.S. Senate leaders asking that Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ind-Conn., be stripped of his chairmanship ... of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for the next Congress, The Hill reported Wednesday. So far the drive, highlighted on liberal blogs such as Huffington Post and Open Left, has collected more than 41,000 signatures.

As the saying goes, 41,000 people can't be wrong.

I suppose it can be said that the news isn't all bad for the senator from AIPAC.

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, with a worldwide membership of more than 250,000, issued a sharply-worded statement today condemning critics of Joseph Lieberman for the Senator’s support of Republican presidential candidate John McCain ...

“I am deeply saddened by these attacks,” the Rabbi declared. “I have known Joe Lieberman for more than 15 years as both a friend of extraordinary integrity as well as a political leader of unbending devotion to democratic principles."

I'm sure the rabbi's statement is well-intended, but I can't help thinking of another rabbi, Baruch Korff, who also tried to defend the indefensible.