( I/D - CT )

[kentuck]

%*&!@#*&!

[TwilightZone]

1. Would you prefer (R)?

That, of course, is the alternative. Lieberman switches parties, and we lose control of the Senate.

Is that preferable?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. Yes.

If you've devoted the last six months of your life to painting Lieberman as the antichrist, only to be proven wrong, then a Lieberman defection would justify that waste of time and resources.

[kentuck]

3. I think I might.

22 Repubs are up for re-election in 2008 and 3 or 4 may resign? Joe woud be stuck with a minority for his next four years. We would still be in control of the House but there is the possibility of appointment of SC justices. Nonetheless, I would not offer him anything unless he switched his Party to Democrat. Let him go.

[TwilightZone]

4. Oh, please.

Give up the Senate? You cannot be serious.

I'm not that fond of Lieberman myself, but I'll take 51D/49R in the Senate over Cheney breaking ties and two more years of gridlock, thanks.

[kentuck]

5. You assume a straight Party vote on each side...

It's not gonna happen after this election. Repubs are already running scared with 22 seats up for re-election in 2008.

[TwilightZone]

8. Your hatred of Lieberman is clouding your judgment....

if you honestly believe we'd be better off at 50/50 for the next two years.

Hmm, set the political agenda for the next two years or have gridlock? Tough choice.

I don't understand your point re: '08. We'll have a majority in the Senate after the '08 elections regardless of whether Lieberman switches parties now or not (which he obviously won't.) So, the alternatives are have control of Congress now or wait until '08. Again, tough choice.

[kentuck]

9. Your love of Lieberman does not permit you to see the impact...

this could have on the Democratic agenda. No, you can't do that...Joe doesn't like it. I don't think Joe would switch but he's on a bigger ego trip than George W Bush. I think he owes the Repubs for voting him in this time - 70% of his votes came from Repubs and Independents. So, how do you think he will vote on the next SC nominee?? I will admit that I do not like his moderate, some may call it "back-stabbing" - brand of politics.

[Thickasabrick]

7. What does it matter if he votes republican anyway? He already

is a republican. We lost that one people.

[rosesaylavee]

6. Did you see this from CBS from Friday?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/10/politics/main2172026.shtml

Lieberman: Call Me A Democrat
AP) Sen. Joe Lieberman, who won re-election as a third-party candidate, has a message for his Senate colleagues in the next Congress: Call me a Democrat.

The three-term Connecticut lawmaker defied party leaders when he launched his independent bid after losing to Democrat Ned Lamont in the August primary. During the campaign, he vowed to be an "independent-minded Democrat" if he were re-elected. In Tuesday's election, Lieberman won strong GOP support, and given the closely divided Senate, Republicans are expected to court him.

So will he count as a Democrat or an independent who caucuses with the majority Democrats? In an e-mail message late Thursday, Lieberman spokesman Dan Gerstein said the senator will begin his new term as a Democrat.