Joe must go

MANIFESTO

... but not, apparently, until December.

Connecticut Democrats will not consider asking Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman to quit the party until after the November election.

Meeting in Hartford, the party's state central committee voted unanimously Wednesday to postpone until Dec. 17 a debate over whether Lieberman should be censured and asked to resign from the party over his speech in support of John McCain at the Republican National Convention.

"For myself personally, [the speech] was the final straw," said Audrey Blondin of Litchfield, one of two committee members pushing the resolution.

But Democratic State Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo and many committee members considered the resolution a distraction from the campaign for Barack Obama and the rest of the Democratic ticket.

A distraction, huh? It seems to me that censuring Senator Sanctimony has to do with the upcoming presidential election about as much as suspending a presidential campaign in order to attend a meeting in Washington does.

With Obama currently having a double digit lead in Connecticut, the state's Dems really look pusillanimous in this episode.