Below The Beltway

By a fairly decisive margin, the Senate Democrats have decided to make nice with Joe Lieberman:
WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Lieberman will keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite hard feelings over his support for GOP nominee John McCain during the presidential campaign.
The Connecticut independent will lose a minor panel post as punishment [...]

It looks like Joe Lieberman will not lose his committee chairmanship after all:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Senate Democrats appear willing to let Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, keep his powerful Homeland Security Committee chairmanship, even though he campaigned vigorously for Sen. John McCain’s White House bid, two sources told CNN Monday.
But the veteran lawmaker will, according to [...]

Well, not the wolves exactly, but the Senate Democratic Caucus, which could be worse:
The full Democratic caucus will vote on whether Joe Lieberman is allowed to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee at its caucus meeting next week, a leadership aide confirms to us.
Previously, Reid’s office had held this possibility out but hadn’t [...]

It looks like Joseph Lieberman’s speech at the Republican convention is going to cost him:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Joe Lieberman’s speech before the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night could cost him the chairmanship of a key Senate committee, a top Senate Democratic aide told CNN.
During the speech, the Connecticut senator praised GOP presidential candidate [...]

With the first day of the Republican National Convention canceled thanks to the threat of Hurricane Gustav, things got back on track yesterday with a day devoted to playing up the parties 2008 nominee:\
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 2 — Republicans began laying out a vigorous argument Tuesday for electing John McCain to the presidency, using [...]

If it’s Thursday, it must be time for rumors about Vice-Presidential running mates and, now we’ve got two more of them.
First via Jason Pye comes a report on what may be a clue that Mitt Romney is the man:
Just hung up the phone with Joe McCutchen, a Republican activist up in Ellijay.
Joe says he just [...]

It seems that John McCain has made up his mind on a running mate, and will announce his choice tomorrow morning in Dayton, Ohio:
SEDONA, Ariz., Aug. 27 — Republican presidential candidate John McCain has settled on a running mate, and the pair will appear together on Friday at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, according to [...]

First there’s this from Townhall.com:
Overheard:  Pawlenty, Romney or Lieberman.  Noon on Friday.
Then, there’s this from Stephen Bainbridge:
There’s a rumor floating around my little corner of the vast right-wing conspiracy that John McCain has cut his VP candidates down to Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and FedEx CEO Fred Smith. Boy would the latter be an out [...]

While the Democrats continue their convention in Denver, details are starting to leak out about John McCain’s anticipated announcement of his Vice-Presidential running mate.
For example, The Politico reports that the McCain Campaign will move quickly to shift the focus from Obama and the Democrats:
DENVER — John McCain is planning to rollout his vice-presidential nominee in [...]

As ridiculous as the idea sounds, the Lieberman for Veep buzz, which I wrote about last week (see here, here, and here) is continuing.
Today, Bill Kristol makes the case in his Monday New York Times column:
Obama and Biden will try to frame the presidential race as a normal Democratic-Republican choice. If they can do that, [...]