God I wish Kos would grow up already

I’ve been visiting Daily Kos today, and it’s a nonstop whine-fest over there.

Senate Democrats today decided Joe Leiberman would not be harshly punished (by losing his chair of the Homeland Secuity committee) for campaigning for McCain and saying some pretty bad things about Obama during the campaign.

This follows Obama’s lead, observers say, and is part of his no-grudges, bipartisan approach.

It’s not going over well with the lefty blogs. Kos in particular is posting some very bitter and profane comments, kind of playing the cliche of the foul-mouth, extremist blogger to the hilt.

These guys have always had it in for Lieberman, with a ferocity that I never have quite understood. I don’t like Lieberman’s position on the Iraq war, or the fact that he supported McCain, but I would think the Democratic Party is big enough to tolerate one guy who steps out of line. (To be clear, the Dem Party is, demonstrably, big enough… but the lefty bloggers, not so much.)

Much of Lieberman’s positioning about the war is due to a (I believe misguided) sense of needing to protect Israel, and I’m not about to fault his motivation there, even if I disagree with his conclusions and positions.

Listen, in this last election, Obama put the Democratic Party in position to be the majority party in this country for the next generation at least. You’d think if he says go easy on Lieberman, the partisan bloggers could cut him a little slack. You’d be wrong, apparently.

Obama’s entire campaign was built on Americans working together despite their differences. He said from the beginning he wanted to bridge some of the political divides and not keep up this tit-for-tat partisanship. The average American is sick of this kind of infighting. How Kos or anyone else can be surprised at this turn of events is pretty hard to figure.

But hardcore partisans always tend to gripe about compromise. In this case, though, I think they should just accept this outcome and get over it. Hopefully they will.