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Absolutely! Buh-bye!

Not so fast, rick!

Inclusion has already started. We have a President-elect who is on record as being committed to inclusion.

It would be such a delicious irony, IMHO, if a President Obama treated Sen. Lieberman like the Prodigal Son.
I say Sen. Dodd is right about that. An important part of peacemaking is about winning over an adversary not by punishment, but by the power of a superior position. Any other victory is hollow IMHO.

I hold out the hope that Mr. Obama will reveal himself to be a true peacemaker in that sense.

---Kap, Reid is saying that out one side of his mouth while offering Lieberman the VA Committee out the other side.
Gee thanks Harry, just what we need, someone who admires McCain running the joint.
I guarantee you my wife will be doing burnouts with her track chair to get us to Washington if that happens.
I did a thread about this in the Veteran's Issues section here at the Rant if anyone is interested.
Stereoman steered me to a very enlightening VoteSmart link that shows Lieberman's voting record is markedly different than McCain but I still don't trust him anymore.

Oh...and then there's THIS...Lieberman aide says booting him endangers country.

Ohhhhh really?
So now we're blackmailing the country?
If Lieberman gets the boot we get bombed?
Is that it, Joe? Did you approve this message?

Hubris on steroids. He really IS a Republican.

On the whole, I'm sure that the party leadership and the party doctrinaire would love to burn Lieberman at the stake. But, to use the words of the fearless SOTH, "that's off the table."

Lieberman has four years to go before facing the voters - who might just send him back again. Practicality says that Harry the Mouth will say one thing and do another.

Your point would well be taken, Ron.

Would you feel the same way about Sen. Dodd if he were "blackmailing the country"?

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Why can't they just use the Patriot Act to gather information about Lieberman, and then blackmail him? I just assumed that extensive political blackmailing has been going on for several years under the Bush administration, and that it was the real reason they wanted the Patriot Act.

Slightly more seriously, I imagine that Trimmer Lieberman wants to be on the winning side, particularly considering the political complexion of his home state. He should definitely be kicked off the Homeland Security committee, but given a pretigious and meaningless committee appointment as a consolation prize. Use him for the next two or four years, and then throw him in the garbage like a squeezed lemon.

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I sort of feel that most politicians spend most of their time trying to blackmail the country.

Some are just more successful at it than are others.

My question was directed to Checkerboard Strangler, Ron. Though your input is acknowledged, with some agreement on my part.

More the action of homo sovieticus, numan. Or, as Willie Loman said in Death of a Salesman, "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away, a man is not a piece of fruit !" ;-)
Yours,
Issodhos