Posted on 11/08/2006 8:46:13 PM PST by monkapotamus
Lieberman, Seniority Sure, Has No Plans to Join G.O.P.
Mr. Lieberman said he spoke Wednesday morning to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, and that Mr. Reid assured him that he would retain his seniority despite having bolted the party after losing its primary in August to run on his own party line.
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He sure duped all the connecticut republians who voted for him. Damn used gore running mate. Oh well, slightly better than lamont.
Mr. Lieberman said he spoke Wednesday morning to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader....
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Amazing how the putrid lizards start sweating and being nice to people they have thrown under the bus several times....maggots.
Didn't his party leave him?
I'm no fan of Lieberman, but his trouncing of Lamont blows away the whole "referrendum on Iraq" angle. If Iraq was such a big deal to the voters, Lamont would have coasted to victory.
How's that? Lieberman said he would vote for the DemocRAT leadership. Republicans In Connecticut knew that before voting for Lieberman. As it turns out, the DemocRATS can't afford to punish Lieberman.
I don't see he duped anyone. He was straight-forward as to his position on voting. Since they were ticked at Bush and took it out on all republicans, he was a better choice given the war on terror than the Dem candidate.
It's not that we loved Lieberman, we loathed Lamont.
I figure he'll have the D back after his name by Jan.
Much of the Senate decisions will rest, in a large part, on this man's vote. He can have whatever he wants from either party.
Or maybe Dingy Harry slipped a party invitation to Lieberman ...and here is the party guest list...
http://members.tripod.com/~cbn2/death-2.html
As Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and a crucial vote and potential coalition-builder, Lieberman may be able to play a positive role in the next two years. Not saying I like it, just that he is in a crucial position at the balance of power between the two parties.
Don't anyone jump down my throat, please, I'm not saying I like anything about the situation, except that I'd still rather have Lieberman chair the Homeland Security Committee in the Senate than any of the uber-leftists who might have been in line....
Also, while I have no use for the "Gang of 14" (now "Gang of 12"), the FACT is that some such coalition is now going to play an even more crucial role in the Senate, for the next 2 years at least, and Lieberman is going to be in the driver's seat a lot of the time..... so we'd better pay attention to what he's doing because both parties are going to depend upon his support and coalition-building for just about anything they want done in the Senate.
Yup, that's just what I was saying, Lieberman is going to be in the driver's seat on a lot of issues in the Senate. He is going to be very liberal on virtually all non-defense issues, but maybe at least he can put on the brakes when his party starts to go really crazy on leftist national security policies. With Lieberman as Chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, at least avoided the execrable Carl Levin as Chair (I think he would have been next in line if Lieberman had lost his seniority with the 'Rats):
http://hsgac.senate.gov/
Joseph I. Lieberman Ranking Member (D-CT)
Carl Levin (D-MI)
Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI)
Thomas R. Carper (D-DE)
Mark Dayton (D-MN)
Mark Pryor (D-AR)
Loserman is a putz and a total jerk.
He would sell out his own mother to Nazis for power.
Even though 75% of the folks that voted for Lieberman were not Democrats he will caucus with the RATs anyway. What a whore.
Why is Lieberman's vote more magical than any of the other democrats? All it would take to swing a Senate vote in either direction is a change of any single Democratic Senator and there are Democrats in the Senate more conservative (relatively speaking)than Lieberman. A swing vote can be caused by any democrat in the Senate...particularly if the Dems in Senate leadership positions dems don't treat the newer and allegedly more socially conservative Dems well.
I must be a stubborn SOB because there is NO WAY IN HELL I'd caucus with a party who trashed me and left me beside the road, and then came crawling back pretending none of it happened. I was hoping Lieberman would stiff the Democrat leadership after the election but, alas, he's soft as we've known all along. At least we can count on him on WOT votes.
No, you can only count on whores to be whores.
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