This morning TPM's front page links to a post by Josh Marshall, and the link on the front page reads"Bill Clinton Making Calls on Lieberman's Behalf":  

Now that's news, you think, because Bill Clinton is the past president and it is relevant that he is injecting himself into a major and controversial intra-party issue less than one week after the historic election that unambiguously establishes Barack Obama as the new big guy on campus. And so you link to the article, and you read that Josh is basing his report on a high level unnamed Democratic source, and then underneath the lead paragraph reporting on Clinton's reported shenanigans on behalf of Senator Lieberman, we read:

"I can also confirm, on the same basis, what Huffington Post has already reported, that President-elect Obama is signaling to Senate leadership and other party officials that he wants Sen. Lieberman to be in the Democratic caucus in the 111th Congress".

So what is going on here?  The primaries are over.  The general election is over.  Senator Obama is now President-Elect Obama, and clearly by any measure what Obama thinks about and does on behalf of Senator Lieberman has to at least as significant as what Bill Clinton does.  Strike that.  Let me go out on a limb and posit that what President-Elect Obama is doing for Lieberman is by any genuine measure more significant than what Bill Clinton is doing for Senator Lieberman.

Am I missing something here?  Is it just me, or does this say something about TPM and/or about TPM's founder, whom I continue to genuinely respect, and what he thinks about his readers.  No doubt all things Clinton sell, but so too do soap flakes sell when packaged correctly.