The cheese doesn’t get cut

Sen. Joe Liederkranz (D-Quisling) will keep his gavel at the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee despite actively working for the Magoo-Barbie ticket in the election just concluded. He will, however, be removed from the Environment and Public Works Committee, a boldly punitive move that Josh Marshall rightly describes as the equivalent of being expelled “from Pilates class in (the) Senate gym.”