Byron Dorgan joins Pat Leahy and Bernie Sanders in speaking out about Lieberman:

As a chairman of one of our significant committees in the Senate, not just going off and supporting a presidential candidate of the other side but also criticizing the candidate on our side, and also involving himself in a couple of senate races on the other side. The question is, is that acceptable? The answer is no.

That's not a clear and unequivocal declaration of how he'll vote next week, but it's something to hold onto, and to show other Senators and ask if they agree.

Unacceptable is unacceptable.

So... don't accept it.

UPDATE: The Hartford Courant reports that the vote will be a secret ballot. We've always known the vote will be an internal caucus vote, and so we'd be unlikely to get any thorough, on-the-record accounting of who voted how, but there was still some question as to whether it'd be a secret ballot vote or an open roll call. The Courant says secret.

Also revealed: Amy Klobuchar lines up with Evan Bayh in the "well, we'd take an apology" camp. I guess some Democratic Senators feel Lieberman's transgressions were purely political, and that they're entitled to decide when he's been contrite enough. And it has to be admitted that they do decide, insofar as the chairmanship goes. But given that Lieberman worked on behalf of a presidential ticket whose rallies mysteriously spiked death threats to the Obamas, I'm not really all that interested in the notion that Evan Bayh and Amy Klobuchar think an "Aw, shucks" might be sufficient.

But I don't have a vote.