Wonkette

• YEAH BUT WHO ISN’T??: Hollywood movie star Lindsay Lohan is very excited about America’s “first colored president” in this shocking video. The C Word! Harry Reid is being pressured to boot her from the Democratic caucus. [TMZ]

Joe Lieberman has spent every day of the last two years sliming the Democratic party in op-eds, interviews, campaign events, and Republican political conventions; he has called the current president-elect dangerous and unpatriotic in recent months. He has done all of this because back in 2006 he lost a state primary and watched as major players in the Democratic party put their weight behind the party candidate, which is what happens in politics. Also, he loves War. This is the larger picture. Now: why won’t Harry Reid strip away this asshat’s chairmanship already, and why is Lieberman pretending that he has leverage? One would think that a Supermajority could shed the one 66-year-old virgin who actively campaigned against it. MORE »

• LIEBERMAN-REID MEETING RESULTS IN NOTHING OF ANY VALUE: Harry Reid’s detention hour with Joe Lieberman has ended with “no decisions made.” This is Reid’s standard declaration when he knows he’s about to capitulate on something. And of course, Lieberman is being an asshole now and trying to control the conversation, saying that an end to “partisanship” is one of “the standards I will use in considering the options that I have before me.” Oh fuck off and join the GOP already. Who cares about filibusters. Just leave. Leave and go get gay-married to Lindsey Graham in Connecticut. [TPM Election Central]

Everyone point and laugh at him now, for he has erred, my friends, and now the principal is tugging him by the ear into detention to try his War Crimes: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will meet with Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman this afternoon to discuss the wayward Democrat’s future in light of his enthusiastic support of Republican Sen. John McCain’s presidential candidacy.” Unfortunately Harry Reid is the disciplinarian here, so somehow the meeting will end with Lieberman firing him. (Which is fine.) What really needs to happen, though, is for Barack Obama to beat the shit out of that rancid twatwaffle Lieberman on the Senate floor again. [WSJ]

Barney Frank is ANGRY, again, and John McCain better stay away from the portly House Financial Services Committee chairman. He says they’re all working with “serious Republicans” but that obviously means no McCain. Frank’s doing a live press conference, which we would liveblog, but we already did one of those this morning and it’s not even noon. Also, the People are going to start lynching CEOs (which is racist) if there’s not some relief for the common folks, &c. MORE »

Oh ho ho, Joe Lieberman is getting it now! His total divorce with the Democratic party commenced yesterday when his legislative director up and quit on the first working day after the Republican convention, and today we have witnessed SEVERE ESCALATION. In the most “Harry Reidish” move ever, Harry Reid has brutally punished Lieberman by BANNING HIM FROM WEEKLY CAUCUS LUNCHES. Those Democratic leaders, they sure know how to shake a stick. “Now he’ll have to pack his own goddamn lunch,” Reid said, except he didn’t. [Roll Call]

President George Bush Jr. today lifted the executive ban on domestic offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, the same ban that his liberal father instituted 20-ish years ago. Take that, old retreating hack! But before the oil companies can start drilling off of your dock, Congress must lift its ban. Well that should be tough! We predict that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will whine about this for a good week, maybe 10 days, but should have a piece of drilling legislation ready for Bush’s Rose Garden signin’ desk by next Friday. [Bloomberg]

Our nation’s beloved Senate Majority leader compared Republican filibusters to stabbing today, saying that it didn’t matter if you got stabbed/filibustered 65 or 72 times, the point is that either thing is bad. Just go to any DC area hospital and look at the emergency rooms, full of filibuster victims! Stop this violent legislating, America. [The Crypt's Blog] MORE »

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced last night that he was giving up his efforts to pass a so-called overhaul of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill before Christmas. The Administration’s wiretapping authority expires in February, but between Dodd’s supposed willingness to damage his chances at the Presidency to vote against it (you, know, do his actual job as a sitting Senator) and the recalcitrance of other Dems to provide blanket immunity to the phone companies for illegal cooperating in illegally tapping our phones, Reid just couldn’t get it done in time to drink some egg nog. So, they’ll come back in mid-January, dick around with it until the last possible second and then pass something that doesn’t do much to change the status quo, like usual. Aren’t we all glad we voted for a change in leadership last time? We got new faces but didn’t have to worry about a dizzying change in direction! [Washington Post]

While not quite as powerful as the NRSC’s holiday delight, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is urging members of its spam list to send a lump of coal to Senate minority leader Mitch “Grinch” McConnell. Because, you know, Harry Reid has been doing just a perfect job trying to give Bush whatever he wants. MORE »

In order to stave off the recess appointments that the White House informed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were inevitable, the good Senator has taken the unusual step of not actually shuttering the Senate for Thanksgiving. Because Bush can only make the appointments when the Senate is in recess, the Senate will instead be conducting “pro forma” sessions each day in which the Clerk opens the session and a Senator (guess it’s luck that there are 3 Democratic Senators from the 2 neighboring states) gavels it immediately closed. This means that if you work for the Senate, well, I guess you won’t be clogging the roads for the rest of us this week. Political gamesmanship is more important that holidays, especially if, as the President and the Senate Majority Leader, the gamesmanship affects your holiday not at all. [CNN]