TalkingPointsMemo

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) won’t be chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee or a member of the Democratic Senate conference after November, suggests Josh Marshall. By that point, Democrats will have increased their majority in the Senate, taking away Lieberman’s leverage as a deciding vote in a nearly split chamber, and grassroots Democrats will have pressured their senators to push Lieberman out, the blogger says in a video. While Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is earning attention as a possible running mate for John McCain, McCain may want to check into his exorcist past, writes Kate Klonick and Eric Kleefeld. Jindal has written about being involved in trying to cast evil demons away from a friend when he was a college student, the bloggers note.