Blog Buzz: Joe Lieberman, Jim Johnson, and the Vice Presidential Search

Our daily look at stories and topics lighting up the Internets:

Joementum

Josh Marshall at TPM notes the Lieberman camp firing back at Team Obama over the public private talk the two legislators had on the Senate floor last week. Marshall thinks that Lieberman's days as a Senate committee chairman—and Democratic Caucus attendee—are numbered in months. Steve Benen at the Carpetbagger agrees: Not if, but when. Meanwhile, Jim Geraghty at NRO says that the episode shows Newsweek is hopelessly in the tank for Obama. Mark Hemingway, also at NRO, agrees. Paul at Power Line says the dust-up occurred because Lieberman scares Obama.

Johnson's Countrywide problem

Conservative bloggers like Ed Morrissey at Hot Air and California Yankee at Red State are having fun tearing apart Barack Obama's trying to explain Jim Johnson's connection with Countrywide Financial Corp. In case you're not familiar with L'Affaire Johnson, Samantha Sault at The Weekly Standard can bring you up to speed.

Veepstakes: Jonesing for a military man?

Noam Scheiber at TNR's The Stump notes a new name in the Obama Veepstakes: retired Gen. James Jones. The Huffington Post's Marcia Meier hopes Obama takes HRC with him on the ride to the White House.

—Robert Schlesinger and Johannah Cornblatt