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Did it ever pass through the minds of the spineless Democratic Senators that President-Elect Obama was playing the role of "good cop", and was waiting for them to be smart enough to pick up their paces and play "bad cop", giving Liebermann the boot he so well deserves? No... that would take more intelligence than they're showing.
Or maybe they are all just bad cops and didn't have to pretend anything?
It doesn't matter though, because if those were the roles then they would have all known what to do. It wouldn't have been a secret. Senators only like keep secrets from the people they represents, not their peers.
It just shows the cognitive dissonance between America and the Congress. To the Establishment, Obama is a "good cop" for wanting to play nice with Lieberman, yet to the people that voted for him, playing nice with Lieberman appears to be perceived as the opposite of being "good".
