Lieberman for Secretary of Homeland Security?

That is a rumor…

It’s a scenario that runs from Washington, D.C., to Danbury City Hall. From the Department of Homeland Security to the Connecticut state Senate.

It has local Republicans buzzing, e-mails flying and lukewarm denials rolling off the tongues of intrigued politicians.

And it’s too good not to share.

It goes something like this:

Connecticut Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, a Democrat, could be named secretary of the Department of the Homeland Security, a department he helped to create.

We can write off the idea as merely political gossip, but the idea is still worthy of discussion. There would be many pros and cons to Lieberman taking that post. Whether the pros outweigh the cons, I’m not sure. Some advantages are obvious. Bush would appear to be “reaching across the aisle” – but Democrats have virtually written off Lieberman anyway, since he supported the war in Iraq. Yet, Lieberman heading Homeland Security would put the Democratic party in a position to artificially place their fingerprints on homeland security successes, and just as easily wipe them off at homeland security failures. With Republicans having an advantage on issues like homeland security and terrorism, is giving Democrats an opportunity to adopt this issue as their own a risk worth taking?

An immediate opportunity this hypothetical appointment offers is the vacancy of Lieberman’s seat in the Senate. Whether or not a Republican is electable in Connecticut to the US Senate is questionable… while the state has elected Republican governors in the past, with the scandal that erupted that surrounded Republican Governor John Rowland’s causing him to resign, Connecticut voters might be less likely to vote for a Republican to fill the vacancy left by Lieberman.

That being said, my instinct still tells me this is merely a rumor and nothing more.

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6 Responses to “Lieberman for Secretary of Homeland Security?”

1. DeWaun says:

   November 21, 2004 at 5:04 pm

   There have been rumors from Danbury, CT before, ya know. Danbury rumors tend to have lasting effects on our national body (e.g.: letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association — 1 January 1802)

   Due to an early instance of “judicial activism” in the 1960’s, that one letter (based on un-founded rumors and fears) causes us undeniable grief, today.

   Here’s that letter, in its entirety:

   Thomas Jefferson to Danbury Baptist Association — 1 January 1802 — “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
2. kahn says:

   November 22, 2004 at 12:19 am

   Lieberman is all right. I think he would give us a run for the White House, except he is way out of line with all the wacko liberal splinter groups within the Democratic party.
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   November 22, 2004 at 1:34 am

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