You Knew This Was Coming
Can we finally strip Lieberman of his chairmanship now? Once again the DFHs (especially Ned Lamont) were right and the so-called political pundits were wrong. I’m not holding my breath waiting for the establishment to apologize for their support of Lieberman. Will Lieberman apologize to the people of Connecticut for lying to them about how he would vote?
Sounding more like an independent than a Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., tells ABC News he will campaign for some Republican candidates during the 2010 midterm elections and may not seek the Democratic Senate nomination when he runs for re-election in 2012.
“I probably will support some Republican candidates for Congress or Senate in the election in 2010. I’m going to call them as I see them,” Lieberman said in an ABC News “Subway Series” interview aboard the U.S. Capitol Subway System.
Lieberman infuriated fellow Democrats in 2008 by supporting Republican presidential nominee John McCain as well as congressional candidates Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.
Lieberman knows that he can’t win the Democratic nomination in 2012. I don’t know why he thinks he can win as a Republican but I guess his ego is as big as Arlen Specter’s so he thinks that Connecticut can’t live without him in the Senate.
Tags: CT-Sen, Health Care Reform, Joe Lieberman, Republicans
I would like nemski to buy us all expensive steaks and wine as penance here.
UI, I think he is signalling his intention to run as an Independant again not as a Republican…
and it looks like you may get your wish:
Harkin warns Lieberman: Healthcare filibuster could put chairmanship at risk
The Hill ^ | 10/30/2009 | Eric Zimmerman
One of the leading Senate Democrats on healthcare reform legislation fired a warning shot in Sen. Joe Lieberman’s direction yesterday, previewing the possible consequences of joining a GOP filibuster.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Senate HELP Committee, told reporters that Lieberman (I-Conn.) ought to consider the benefits of his membership in the Democratic caucus before he decides how to vote on healthcare reform.
“[Lieberman] still wants to be a part of the Democratic Party although he is a registered independent. He wants to caucus with us and, of course, he enjoys his chairmanship of the [Homeland Security] committee because of the indulgence of the Democratic caucus. So, I’m sure all of those things will cross his mind before the final vote,” Harkin said in a conference call.
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the healthcare bill is such “good” legislation that it need blackmail and bribery to pass.
I think that you guys forgot that the Democrats kicked him out of their party. He is an independent. He won with Republican and Independent votes. The Democrats need him, he doesn’t need the Democrats. They were the ones disloyal when they did not back him in the primary. He owes them nothing.
As for Harkin, is he saying the same about Bayh, Nelson from NE and Nelson from FL, Lincoln, and Landrieu? If he keeps that up, he may be the one to lose a chairmanship.
He promised to be a “very independent Democrat.” You must have missed it. Think back to 2006, he said that he would back the right candidates regardless of party. He is keeping his word.
Once he filed as an independent, Lieberman spoke of being “unshackled” and “liberated” all through the fall campaign. He proclaimed his independent candidacy a “twist of fate.”
“I will go to Washington beholden to no political group, but only to the people of Connecticut and my conscience,” Mr. Lieberman declared during his victory speech. He went on to proclaim “a declaration of independence from politics of partisanship,” emphasizing “I will be an independent senator.
It is fitting because Lieberman got his start as a Senator with backing from William Buckley and other conservatives who wanted to get rid of a commie lib mascaraing as a Republican (Wiecker).
Republican David wrote I think that you guys forgot that the Democrats kicked him out of their party.
Do you even know that you are wrong on this fact?
Lieberman left the Democratic party after the voters in the Democratic party chose someone else over him. Lieberman then became an independent. How do you reconcile the fact that Lieberman lied to the voters of Connecticut? He told them he’d vote for health care reform.
I laugh at the thought of Republicans taking Lieberman. Really, the party that is purging any Republican with independent thought is going to take pro-choice Lieberman? You have to be kidding me. Lieberman may have enough ego to think that he’s indepensible, but he’s kidding himself.
Maddow Guest Jane Hamsher: Democrats Could Close Groton Sub Base to Punish Lieberman
and Dems wonder why the voters think they are weak on defense.