U.S. Democrats re-embrace independent Lieberman

[oberliner]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats have begun to re-embrace Joseph Lieberman and seem ready to give the former Democrat turned independent a chairmanship in the new Congress that convenes in January, party aides said on Thursday.


Lieberman won reelection to a fourth Senate term on Tuesday, running as an independent in Connecticut following his loss in a Democratic primary to anti-war activist Ned Lamont.

Many Senate Democrats respected the outcome of the primary and backed Lamont in the general election. But many also said they still consider Lieberman a friend and a Democrat.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, set to become majority leader of the new Democratic-led Senate, "talked to Lieberman on Wednesday and told the senator he expects him to be the next chairman of the committee" on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said Reid spokesman Jim Manley.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/ts_nm/usa_politics_lieberman_dc_1

[aquart]

1. Let them embrace him.

And, if there's justice, God will turn them into pythons.

[Clarkie1]

8. Somehow, I don't think God is taking sides on this one. nt

[ShortnFiery]

2. Ain't that special?

:puke:

[liberalnurse]

3. Sounds like a reasonable strategy.

What is the old saying?...."Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"....something like that ?????

[roamer65]

6. Yuppers. You got it.

Who knows. Maybe the strategy will attract Snowe and Collins over to our side as well. It can be pretty lonely in the MINORTY party. Hehehehe.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Joe was a Freedom-Rider...

...where have you gone, Joe diMentum?:shrug:

[stepnw1f]

5. I Wouldn't Call it "Embrace"

maybe a "pat" on the head. When is Joe moving to Israel?

[oberliner]

7. Why would he move to Israel?

I don't get it.

[stepnw1f]

11. Lieberman sworn in as new Israeli cabinet minister

Lieberman sworn in as new Israeli cabinet minister; Labour's Pines-Paz resigns
31 October 2006

http://www.bicom.org.uk/briefings/printable/?content_id=2080

Plus he's a tool for the Israeli-Neo-con agenda.

[AntiWarPoster]

13. Hahahahahah you're so funny

Because they have the same name!

hahahahah!

[Greeby]

9. I'll grit my teeth on this for now

But if something happens and we gain another seat, then they should dump him. Let him go frollick with his own kind on the Repuke side

[madfloridian]

10. Nope, it is wrong.

Now there will be no way to get incumbents out when they vote us to war or when they tell us not to undermine the president or criticize him.

We will have to take it. I am amazed so few here see that.

What Joe did is not ok, but now he established a precedent. They expect total loyalty to us...but they think they don't have to give it.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/581

[liberalnurse]

14. The people of Conneticut re-elected him.....

thus we are stuck with him.....They, the Dem leaders, they all know how to keep this DINO content...He craves attention and needs attention....They are doing what is smart.....Lieberman wants to be important, not a rebel outcast. They will treat him like a mistress to keep him in line. :kick:

[AtomicKitten]

12. Lieberman gives us the majority.

It makes NO SENSE to continue to want to banish him to the hinterland. It is what it is and it would behoove us to make the best of it and relish in this long over-due majority with lovely, lovely subpoena power.