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Newly re-elected Sen. Joe Lieberman has been promised by Sen. Harry Reid – who is in line to become the next Senate Majority Leader – that he will support Lieberman’s efforts to become chairman of the powerful Homeland Security Committee. In a private phone call on Wednesday, Nevada’s Reid told Lieberman that he would recognize Lieberman as the senior Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which would facilitate Lieberman’s move into the post.

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.

Yeah, I know. Another vanity. But I'm wondering...any chance he might flip?

Joe Lieberman has been in the Senate for 18 years. He's a leader of the Democratic Leadership Council, the money wing of the party. He became the party's vice presidential nominee, even as he championed the DLC's "triangulating" politics, pushing off of the Democratic Party base to demonstrate his "independence" by embracing key elements of the conservative agenda -- championing the war in Iraq, attacking affirmative action, pushing capital gains tax cuts that benefit only the very wealthy. Now he's pushed off so long, he seems confused about whom or what he represents. He now says he's a good Democrat,...

When Play-It-Again-Sam crooned, "A kiss is just a kiss ..." in that smoky Moroccan saloon so long ago, the celluloid, star-crossed lovers played by Bogie and Bergman knew better. As time goes by, so does Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman. The big smooch that President Bush appeared to lay on Lieberman after last year's State of the Union speech has become so much more than a kiss. It may indeed be the smack of political death for the longtime senator from Connecticut. Lieberman is scrambling in a solidly Democratic state in which an aggressive primary challenger has reared his well-coifed head....

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Sen. Joseph Lieberman expressed support for Palestinian statehood during a visit to Ramallah on Monday and called conditions in the West Bank town "desperate."Mr. Lieberman, the Democratic candidate for vice president in 2000, is considered a front-runner for the party's 2004 presidential nomination. He has said he will make a decision about whether to seek the nomination early next year.In violence Monday, Israeli troops killed two Hamas activists, including a leading militiaman, as the men rode a tractor near the West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian security officials said. The Israeli military said it was checking...

In the midst of the midterm elections, no one is saying it yet, so I may as well be the first: The race for the White House is already heating up. Political watchers are spotting a trend. The Democratic Party is quietly showcasing their frontrunners. And, like useful idiots, the media is helping. We should note, however, that this time, one reason the media is helping the Democrats is because they think Bush is boring. The glitzy set in Washington need invitations to formal White House functions, with all the resultant pomp and circumstance, to show themselves off. Else, they...