[Southack]

Dealing with reality bothers you, somehow?

Lieberman remains in the Senate no matter what at this point.

You can let him remain a Democrat, where it will cost us more money, pork, and favors to overcome Democratic Party filibusters (your preferred option, I presume), or else you can offer him a plum like a Senate committee chairmanship and have him caucus with Republicans.

But either way, Lieberman remains in the Senate. It's just a question of what sort of power is used to buy his votes that remains...

Presuming, of course, that you **want** the Senate to approve Bush's privatization of Social Security, Bush's judicial nominees, school vouchers, and a comprehensive Energy Bill in the next legislative session.

[bc2]

Posting the same thing isn't going to convince me that wrong is somehow right.