If this involves Reid and he is forced to step down, don’t we get the Senate back.
First off, Reid won’t step down unless they’re going to march him out in handcuffs and maybe not even then. Secondly, at the start of the session, they locked in the committee assignments, so basically the Dems would be in charge regardless of what the numbers are in the Senate. That way, if Lieberman did a switcheroo, it didn’t make a difference.