What Democrats need to do about Lieberman

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First the Democratic Senate Leadership needs to make clear in both public and private that under no circumstances whatsoever will Lieberman have the senority he earned as a Democrat. He will be last in senority if he wins and will stay last in senority the entire time he is in the Senate as an independent no matter what happens.

Second, at every single campaign stop or press conference that Lieberman has he must be asked to forswear caucusing with the Republicans under any circumstance.

If we do that, then we strip Lieberman of a significant advantage without putting the Senate in jeopardy. We are in the majority if the Senate is 51/49 or 50/49/1. Any other option lets Lieberman use an asset he was given by our party to hurt our party.