When the Dems increase the majority in the senate in Nov--Lieberman will go bye bye.

[trumad]

No committee seats, nothing. We won't need his sorry ass.

[ThomWV]

1. I very much look forward to seeing that happen - then they can kick his ass out in 2010.

[0007]

2. Amen!

[More_liberal_than_mo]

12. 2012

I believe we're stuck with him in the Senate until 2012.

[ThomWV]

13. Whoops! My mistake. Dam it. Can't be soon enough.

[GaYellowDawg]

3. He knows it, too. That's why he's so far up McCain's ass.

I think he's hoping he can visit the Senate as VP.

[Richard Steele]

9. Exactly so. He's known it since November of 06. nm

[Bake]

14. I'd love it if McLame picked Joe for VP

He was a lousy Veep candidate in 2000, and he'd be lousy in 2008! What a freakin' whiner he is!!

Bake

[rpannier]

4. That possibility seems to be gaining in recent weeks

I've seen several stories discussing that probability.

Especially when the Dems win the White House (Veep is the tie breaker)

My guess is, LIEberman will retire from the Senate because he will be useless.
The pukes will have three US Senators from NE and no congress-critters

[madinmaryland]

15. If LIEberman leaves the Senate, he would be replaced by a Repub.

as the Governor (Jodi Rell-R) gets to make the selection.

[JerseygirlCT]

17. True

But I don't imagine we'd end up much worse, honestly. So long as we have the numbers to keep the majority - and by a stronger margin, please - a moderate Republican would probably be better than Lieberman. Sad to say, but true.

[madinmaryland]

18. The funny thing, which I really had not thought about, is where would

Rell find a Republican in CT??

The only one of any stature (hahaha) is Chris Shays. He WOULD be worse than LIEberman.

I don't think Rowland is eligible since he is a convicted felon. How about Phil Giordano!!1!! :rofl:

[JerseygirlCT]

19. LOL Yeah, I think Rowland's got his cushy gig all set now

And Rell is eager to leave some daylight between herself and him.

I'm not sure Shays would be worse, honestly. We'd know what we're dealing with. And no one would have any illusions or be able to claim any pretense that he was a Democrat. And assuming we have a strong enough majority anyway, then Shays (who just might need a job then - let's hope he's out the door as CT's last GOP congressperson) would be an inconsequential member of the minority - distrusted by his own party as too "liberal" and seen, rightly, as a loser.

[MoJoWorkin]

5. Yep, and not a second too soon!

[PVnRT]

6. That will be a happy day

No longer having to kiss his ass.

[BlooInBloo]

7. Thank GOD. The fuckwipe Connecticit electorate can fuck the hell off.

[DFW]

8. He has already left the party

He'll just cease to caucus with us, that's all. Then, as an independent
who caucuses with the Republicans, he gets the choice of retaining his
moderately progressive social views, and will continue to vote with the
Democrats on them while irking his new right wing allies, or else he gets
to become trash in the eyes of those few remaining CT Democrats who voted
for him in 2006.

Either way, his relevance is reduced to next to nothing, and he either
retires for real, or gets retired de facto by having the world putting
him on ignore for the remainder of his term.

[Happyhippychick]

10. I hope they make his ousting a public affair.

[npincus]

11. A-men. Traitor Joe will get his just desserts.

[Elidor]

16. If only that were true

Even though Reid may not need Lieberman next Congress to claim a Senate majority, he told Lieberman in private conversations that he would protect his seniority.

“I can tell you Sen. Reid had talked to me a few times and said he knows there will be talk if we get more than 51 Democrats next year,” Lieberman told The Hartford Courant this month. “As far as he is concerned, I will retain my seniority, et cetera, no matter how many Democrats there are next year.”

Jim Manley, a Reid spokesman, said he would not comment on the senator’s private conversations, but acknowledged that the two men spoke.

When asked Tuesday if Lieberman’s chairmanship was at risk next Congress, Reid said succinctly: “No.”

“We have one difference of opinion, maybe two with Sen. Lieberman,” said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), a prominent supporter of Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) presidential candidacy. “As a whip, I can tell you time and again, he’s been there when we’ve needed him.”

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/lieberman-willing-to-star-at-republican-convention-2008-04-15.html

The current bunch of useless idiots isn't about to be mean to their buddy Joe.