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So when will Lieberman betray Connecticut voters and cross the aisle?

Thu, 02/22/2007 - 1:39pm — lambert

When it's good for Joe, of course. E&P:

"Independent" Sen. Joe Liebeman receives a mini-profile [in next week's Time] titled "What Joe Wants," a key question since he is "the Senate's one-man tipping point." Republicans, the magazine says, are "courting him" and Lieberman "has been indulging in some fairly immodest poltical footsie."

Ewwwwww! [Let me pause a moment to get that picture out of my mind. There.]

Lieberman calls jumping to the Republican side, and tilting the Senate, "a remote possibility," which means there's at least a chance of that. Time seems to push Lieberman in this direction, as the article concludes: "Lieberman's GOP flirtation has its risks--and a time limit....The longer he waits to capitalize on his moment, the greater the danger that he'll be tagged as one of those politicians for whom having power is more important than using it."

So, Lieberman (D-Likud) taking the Republican name is an improbable possible? How re-assuring.

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Time Just Posted The Article

By trifecta on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 2:58pm


Loserman profile

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Just what is Lieberman's "unique position"?

By lambert on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 3:47pm

A YAAP speaks:

And Lieberman is uniquely positioned...

[Let me pause one moment to get, erm, a picture out of my mind. There.]

... to influence the Bush Administration. In December 2004 the White House "sounded him out" for the job of U.N. ambassador, says a source close to Lieberman, and although he declined the offer, he remains in regular contact with the Executive Branch. Before Bush's State of the Union speech in January, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley brought in Lieberman for a private consultation with the President. Lieberman says he talks with or e-mails Hadley, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff and White House legislative-affairs head Candida Wolff every week or two.

Are these people demented? What on earth would anybody believe that it's possible for anyone to influence Bush?

No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Holy Joe's "positioned" like that famous pig

By xan (not verified) on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 5:00pm

stuck halfway over the fence. Can't go forward and can't go back.

And (imho, ymmv) he will never formally and officially and legally shapeshift into the Republic party, any more than he would convert to Christianity (although one can argue that he qualifies as a "Christianist" even now, for all his pseudo-Judaic piety).

As an actual, label-wearing, card-carrying Republican he is worthless to Bush and also at the absolute bottom of the seniority pile in the Senate. WTF would he want to trade his, ahem, "Senate’s one-man tipping point" status for that?

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Flirtin' Joe

By Borrowed Suits (not verified) on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 5:18pm

The longer he waits to capitalize on his moment, the greater the danger that he’ll be tagged as one of those politicians for whom having power is more important than using it.

Wait, what? I thought he was already so tagged, no? I'm telling ya, the MSM is slower than we thought. Me and the other 873 people on the left (hey Joe Klein: actually there are millions of us--they're just hiding) tagged IndyJoe with that paint the moment he declared a new party and kept running.

Joe's useless. All he's good for is Democrat baiting. Please tell me we're too smart to let him. (Hey, there's always hope.)

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i wish i had a dime for ever joe related "i told you so"

By chicago dyke on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 10:56pm

moment i've had. he'll switch, when it will hurt the dems the most. that's the coin in which he trades, and his republican friends will cash him in when it gets them the most, never fear.

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Unique position

By scarshapedstar on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 11:40pm

I was thinking more along these lines.

But I still believe
And I will rise up with fists!!

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But I still believe
And I will rise up with fists!!

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