So when does Joe Lieberman perform the final act of betrayal

[AllentownJake]

and join the GOP caucus, I give it till Friday.

[WI_DEM]

1. If we go the reconciliation route he might, and I'd say "GOOD!"

[tridim]

2. In the 2006 election.

[tblue]

6. Oh yeah. You're right. nt

[L0oniX]

3. fucking Judas

[tularetom]

4. Why should he do that?

He'd lose all his power if he became a repub. They have no use for him in their caucus so they would not be terribly receptive. He can do far more damage to the Dems where he's at and do it seemingly with the blessing of the party leadership.

Plus he'd lose his committee chairmanship. Nah, staying in the Democratic caucus is the best way for him to exact a little revenge on the Dems for letting him get beat in the 2006 primary. He's a bitter unhappy little man and becoming a republican won't change that.

[Kitty Herder]

9. Yep.

By staying in the Democratic caucus, he gets to have his cake and eat it too.

[tblue]

5. I don't think he has the stones or that his ego could take it.

He can throw his weight around now because he is one of the few in the tissue-thin majority to tack to the right.

OTOH, if he joined with the Repubs, he'd be just another one of them and not wield much personal power. He would never threaten Repub policies by threatening to out-left them. (They would never tolerate that anyway.) After all, he is the Senator from the state of Aetna.

He's having way too much fun enjoying his pariah status and hovering over the Dems as an impending threat.

[bridgit]

7. "betrayal" is the word and Lieberman, as a war hawk, should perform it on the battlefield...

Where his willy-nilly politics shed blood and squander treasure for the insurance underwriters of Hartford

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[Sebastian Doyle]

10. If Reid grew a spine and passed a REAL reform bill in reconciliation

it would certainly be worth the loss of one piece of shit who has betrayed us repeatedly for a decade anyway.

[damntexdem]

11. Final act of betrayal! Don't be silly: he has plenty more in his playbook.

In fact, joining the GOP caucus would be less of a betrayal than the damage he wreaks as a member of the Dem caucus.