He is just attempting to blackmail his Dem friends into supporting him by putting the fear of him being the 11th Senator to give control of the Senate back to the GOP.
Typical insider, backroom dealing crook of a politician.
No thanks Joe.
The cynical view is that, if things stay as they are, we will almost certainly retake the Senate in 2012. We’ll likely be over halfway there after this election, and in 2012, over 2/3rds of the seats are democrat, mostly in marginally republican areas.
So cynically, this could be Joe just wanting to be in the majority, when we might not need him to BE in the majority.
On the other hand, I don’t see how a republican ever wins that seat while Lieberman is there — we couldn’t even beat him when there was a democrat primary winner on the ballot against him.