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Posted on 11/10/2006 10:41:25 AM PST by truthandlife
Sen. Joe Lieberman, who won re-election as an independent, has a message for his Senate colleagues in the next Congress: Call me a Democrat.
The three-term Connecticut lawmaker defied party leaders when he launched his independent bid after losing to Democrat Ned Lamont in the August primary. During the campaign, he vowed to be an "independent-minded Democrat" if he were re-elected. In Tuesday's election, Lieberman won strong GOP support and given the closely divided Senate, Republicans are expected to court him.
So will he count as a Democrat or an independent who caucuses with the majority Democrats? In an e-mail message late Thursday, Lieberman spokesman Dan Gerstein said the senator will begin his new term as a Democrat.
With the Democratic takeover of the Senate, Lieberman is in line to become chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
In a post-election news conference, Lieberman said he was reassured by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid that he would retain his seniority when the new Senate convenes.
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Say a little bird told me.
After that, as far as anything official goes, Lieberman will be a full member of the Democrat establishment. Joe Lieberman is as much a Democrat as Pat Leahy. What's unbelievably ironic about all this is that the money that Lieberman turns over is almost exclusively from the $6-$8 million in GOP contributors that Rove steered towards him. So you'll effectively have Bush Pioneer types funding the Democrat party. BRILLIANT STRATEGY GUYS -- so glad that money went to a stalwart conservative like Loserman rather than to, I DON'T KNOW ---- George Allen.
I just thought this post of yours deserved to be read again!
Heck, Joe's just being what he always has been. He didn't pretend to be otherwise, and he's sure better than Lamont.
It probably would have better if Lamont would have won, it would have put MORE pressure on the dems to pull out NOW.(Whats the difference anyhow)
What's your thought on Republican contributions (steered to Lieberman by Rove) being passed on to Democrat Party organizations? See my post above. Thanks to you guys and Rove, GOP donors have supported not just Joe Lieberman, but the entire Democrat Party from Dean to Pelosi. We're talking $6-$8 million or more, not exactly chump change.
Supporting Lieberman helped keep Lamont out of office. But Joe was never one of us.
In hindsight, we may have been better off with Lamont.
Did you people seriously think he was going to switch parties and become a conservative? The only benefit we got from Lieberman's election was watching ned lament spend a pile of his own dough.
~extending my hand~
Take it, Nutmeg, or else you risk falling off that precipice.
I see you live in VA. How would you have voted in this CT race?
The race was interesting because it was direct evidence that Iraq was _not_ the deciding factor in 2006. Votes in Conn had a clear choice between a pro-War and an anti-War candidate that was untouched by the Congressional Republican scandals, spending, earmarks and just plain bad bills.
And they went for the pro-War candidate.
Actually that is good news for the company I work for. About time you brought home some bacon Joe!
I vote only for conservatives, no exceptions.
What a crock .. Reagan never defeated Democrats in any way. He got Democrats to support the economic and foreign policies of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He had Tip O'Neil, the Democrat speaker of the house, over the white house many times. Reagan never invited Conservative Barry Goldwater anywhere.
Reagan governed using the Democratic economic policy of cut taxes and deficit spending. The deficit doubled under Reagan as did federal spending. The number of civilian government workers under Reagan grew by over 200,000 people. He only managed to close just one tiny government agency. The Reagan foreign policy was the Kennedy policy of defend any friend and oppose any foe of liberty. .. Right out of the JFK inaugural address.
Reagan got along very well with Democrats. Why should they dislike him he governed as liberal as JFK.
I blame Sean Hannity.
If Lieberman had won the primary, who would those folks have supported? The GOP candidate?
Those people supported Jim Webb too.
Agreed. Some on this board were more excited with Lieberman than with true conservative candidates. It made me nauseous.
That is what I am thinking now.
We actually needed to win three of the elections, not two.
Chafe would have switched if the senate was a 50/50. He waiting for his moment as a hero to the MSM. SO we should
have just elected Lamont.
I think I got played by thinking that the Senate was close.
I totally disagree with Rove and the GOP giving $$ to any Democrat Party organizations. I don't think Joe needed help from them or anyone else to win this election. I was pretty confident he would win all along, with moderate Democrat, Republican and swing voters.
Thanks to you guys and Rove, GOP donors have supported not just Joe Lieberman, but the entire Democrat Party from Dean to Pelosi.
Don't give me the snarky "thanks to you guys..." I didn't give a dime to Joe's campaign, nor to the RNC. I supported some individual GOP candidates in other - redder - states whom I really thought had a fighting chance to win their races.
How would you be feeling today if enough of us voted for Alan Schlesinger, split the Lieberman vote, and we would now be welcoming "Senator Ned Lamont"?
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