"Lieberman could be kingmaker if next Senate winds up divided 50-50."

[wisteria]

All the more reason to keep up the donations to Democrats. I for one don't want Sen. Leiberman in any power position in the Senate again.


http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/124433-lieberman-could-be-kingmaker-in-next-congress#thecomments-form-message

[Skink]

1. Do you think they'll use reconciliation?

[wisteria]

2. I don't know, I really don't know. This just seems like deja vu. n/t

[Exilednight]

3. Reconciliation can only be used once per fiscal year ...........

and then it still has to be signed by the president, who can veto it.

[kentuck]

4. Groundhog day?

again?

[saltpoint]

5. Agree. It would be in the best interests of

progressives to keep Lieberman away from the control panel.

I'm encouraged by the polling in Connecticut which shows his statewide support has slipped to the un-re-electable zone for the next cycle.

[Mass]

6. Halloween is close, I see. Media need to put out theories that exist only in their dreams.

Nelson is exactly in the same position, so is Mary Landrieu, or Mark Pryor, and in the other direction, Snowe and Collins. May be we could avoid making Lieberman MORE important than he is.

[wisteria]

12. Agree to a point,but I doubt Landrieu,Pryor and even Nelson, would ever consider becoming a Repub.

Leiberman would do this to make sure he would retain certain chairmanships and seats. And,if the Repubs are close to overtaking the Senate, they would pressure Leiberman to come over to their side. He could be in a position to broker the best deals for himself by dangling a carrot in front of both the Dems and the Repubs.

[Greybnk48]

7. Lieberman is a Repug. End of story.

No drama, teeth gnashing, hair pulling, etc. He will vote with the radical repugs.

[phleshdef]

8. Lieberman is scum. He is also still entirely too liberal to find a place among these Republicans.

He is pro-choice, rated 100% by NARAL.
He is a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act and is heavily pro-union.
He opposed a constitutional ban on same sex marriage.
The NRA hates him.

I don't see how anyone with his positions would ever be accepted by this modern, far right, small tent Republican party.

[Aramchek]

9. luckily, Lieberman will be out on his ass in 2012

[totodeinhere]

13. What makes you think that? n/t

[Aramchek]

14. have you seen recent polling of his popularity in Connecticut?

He's a man without a State.

[totodeinhere]

15. It's early. He will have a lot of money and if he runs as an independent again the

anti Lieberman vote might be split. But I hope you are right.

[old mark]

10. "Lieberman could be retired if the voters had any sense..."

and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a fire truck.


mark

[young but wise]

11. Ugh, I can't stand this puppet mouth man.