Sen. Joseph Lieberman played a central role in rallying votes for repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," but his advisers likely realized that this was too little, too late to entirely redeem him.

If you track tech politics closely, there’s a good chance you can spot a Declan McCullagh column before you glance at the byline. McCullagh, a reporter and commentator for CNET, has a tendency to hang any tech news of the day on an anti-government framework, rarely stopping at healthy skepticism when there's a chance to spark full-blown hysteria. By his own admission, McCullagh started the ridiculous and harmful “Al Gore invented the Internet” meme in the late '90s. McCullagh’s latest hit tearing up the Web is that the Senate is considering a Sen.

Citizenship expert Peter J. Spiro gives a bit more detail on the process for relinquishing citizenship. He says it might be constitutional, but Sen. Joe Lieberman's proposal to strip citizenship from suspected terrorists still wouldn't work:

Joe Lieberman is reportedly proposing a bill next week that would repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law that prevents gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. Jamie Kirchick, who interviews Lieberman, comments:

WASHINGTON - Just when you thought Joe Lieberman couldn't frustrate and perplex liberals any further, he is going off to become chief sponsor of the most significant piece of socially progressive legislation that Congress will deal with this year.

Ta-Nehisi Coates doesn't think (and I agree) that Joe Lieberman will pay any price for his disgraceful behavior on health care and that while Lieberman "deserves" to lose his chairmanship, "it's simply not clear to me that--in terms of passing legislation--the Dems would be better off" if Lieberman got his just deserts. David Kurtz agrees with less regret. I don't disagree with the idea that getting good legislation passed is more important than taking revenge per se.

Here in Washington, certain words don't seem to mean what they mean elsewhere. I remember some years ago, Christopher Hitchens pointing out that the word "perception" generally means insight or understanding. But in Washington, it means something false, as in "perception is reality," or "the perception of George W. Bush as a heroic president."

Ezra Klein noted a similar reversal a few months ago: In the external world, "reconciliation" means a peaceful reunification, as in the end of a family feud. But in Washington, the word represents "the most divisive thing you could do."