Imagine its Nov 8. Lamont has lost to ........

[Stinky The Clown]

.... that self selected third party guy, who won over Lamont and the Republic Party candidate.

The rest of the count gives us a 50 seat Senate without the winner in Conneccticut. He's on the fence about who he'll caucus with. He's being coy with both parties.

You're the Democratic leader.

What do you do?

[wryter2000]

1. Hmmm

I guess the grapefruit half in the face is out of bounds.

[tk2kewl]

15. Cagney!

That works for me. ;)

[bunkerbuster1]

2. I have him disappeared.

We're allowed to do that now, right?

[MadMaddie]

3. I would neuter him and relegate him to ......lets see......

nothing.....

He can continue voting with the Republicans....since that is who he has chosen his side..

[katsy]

7. I'm with you.

The pubs voted him in. Keep him out of Democratic business.

[Auntie Bush]

4. Pardon me if I don't join you with that imagination!

It'll make me :puke:

On to the question. I'd imagine that he were Humpty Dumpty.

[CTyankee]

5. If he totally goes to the dark side I would join a

recall petition movement (but I don't know if CT law allows that, hmm..).

[AX10]

6. It's a lose-lose case for the Dems.

If we tell Joe to get lost, we lose control of the Senate. If we let him stay, we will have to concede alot to him, including the chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee. Joe will still be kissing Bush's ass 24/7.

I live in CT. Joe Lieberman is NOT my Senator!

[MaineDem]

8. He has said he'd caucus with the Democrats

I tend to believe him, as much as I wish he wasn't running.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. I don't trust him as far as i can throw him

He's a proven snake.

That said, it he wants me to give him a blow job on the Capitol steps to keep him in the Dem column, I will. We need the majority more than we need his sorry assed votes. Give him the Homeland Security committee. We can deal with everything else. The majority, to me, is EVERYTHING.

Yeah, call me an appeaser and a capitulator.

We'll get better. Right now we just need to get a toehold on control.

[wryter2000]

17. The blowjob idea is a good one

He'd have to resign from the Senate after that.

[flyarm]

13. i do not believe a thing that filthy pig says! this week

he told dems to back off the Foley crime..agfainst children.,.get that fucker our in CT!!

i keep sending him money ..all dems could help sending him some $$

lets all get that pug out!! for once and for all!

fly

[LoZoccolo]

9. Pick up my glowing blue space crystals...

...and disappear for a voyage across the galaxy to see it's wonders of light, the twinkling stars, the blinking pulsars, the soaring comets, and the mysterious black holes.

Joe Lieberman has said he'll caucus with the Democrats. Your hypothetical question gets a hypothetical answer.

[TheWraith]

21. Don't go bringing facts into this!

I said almost the exact same thing the other day, and somebody insisted point blank that Lieberman had said the exact opposite.

Joe is an ego case of the first order, but he's still a Democrat 80% of the time, so it's kind of hard for us to lose the CT Senate race.

[DinahMoeHum]

10. Expel him from the Democratic Party.

There IS that possibility the Dems could win more than 6 seats to control the Senate, even without the CT Senate seat in their column. So why would they need him then? He's not really one of them anymore.

:kick:

[Stinky The Clown]

14. That's the ideal situation, to be sure, but in this calculus .......

.... which is likely closer to the highest probability, we need to give this some thought.

[PATRICK]

12. Bluntly

since he is so amenable to pressure I would use it on him and stuff his smugness down his throat. Yes you'll give him concessions in his "bi-partisan" role but no bribes, sever his links with other DINO leaners, no surrender. Do what the GOP does to him better. No nice guy but no tossout. If he walks to the other side, which he has the power to do, find a way to make him pay other than words.

Anything weak will damage the party control over other phony centrists.

[bluestateguy]

16. This is a very realistic scenario. I suggest we all prepare for it.

In that scenario Republicans will be desperate and they will offer Lieberman a committee chairmanship, lollipops and possible a briefcase full of cash. In such a scenario, Democrats will probably have to offer him a committee chairmanship too, OR abandon Lieberman, let the Goopers have him, and make overtures to Olympia Snowe (offer her a chairmanship).

[Buzz Clik]

18. "What do you do?" Laugh at him. Tell him he made his bed...

... now sleep in it.

Lieberman compromised Democratic ideals at every turn and then stabbed us in the back after the primaries. He can go straight to hell.

[Stinky The Clown]

19. He can, indeed, do all that you suggest .......

.... and in the end, we stay the MINORITY party.

Sorry, that's nothing something I'm willing to give up. As I stated above, the marjority is EVERYTHING.

[Buzz Clik]

26. I've noticed this trend at DU -- vote for those who don't represent you.

Why? Is there something magical about Lieberman being a (D) when he votes like an (R)? Same thing in Pennsylvania where Rick Santorum and Casey are interchangeable parts. Why vote for someone you know with certainty will not support core Liberal causes?

If you continue to embrace cowardly or traitorous Democrats, we will continue to be unrepresented in Washington DC.

[Stinky The Clown]

30. Thank you for the lecture. I've never heard that argument before

Here's the thing. Right now we got shit, yanno? Nothing. No power, no majority, nothing.

You have principles and you're okay having them and nothing much else. I have principles, too, but I also wanna win and get some power. So - as is the game of politics - you take what you can get and then work to change it.

Or, you can sit around, you and your navel, stare at each other and ...... stare at each other ...... and ......

For me, I see being 75% of the way there and having a hope to make it better far preferable than having my principles upheld 100% but being out in the wilderness and helping no one.

[SteppingRazor]

20. I'd point out to Lieberman that...

if he intends to run for re-election in 2012, he damn well better get in line and caucus with the Dems, or he's screwed.

[Arugula Latte]

22. I can't say what I want to say.

So I won't say it.

[sundancekid]

23. jeebus, Stinky, have him declared an enemy combatant cuz the big

dick STILL steals the majority position that you so rightly want ...

so, off to gitmo with joelentum ...

[madinmaryland]

24. If he wins, then we are stuck with him. PERIOD.

We will have to find a way to have him caucus with us, which is what he says he will do. If not, then we are hosed. If Lieberman takes a position in the * admin, after getting elected, then the gov will appoint a repub to fill his seat.

Lose-lose situation.

[Marrak]

25. If you think he could go lower...

and find himself in that position, Rove'll water-board his ass so fast he won't know what hit him...and repeat it for good measure to keep Joe in line...but it ain't been pretty thus far, either...
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[SaveElmer]

27. We accept him back....and rejoice

That Patrick Leahy is now chairman of the Judiciary committee instead of Orin Hatch!

[cmkramer]

28. False premise

Poor Nutroots Ned. He managed to win the primary by lying and smearing his opponent. The general election isn't going to be that easy.

When Lieberman wins in November, he will be caucusing with Democrats in January. There is absolutely no chance that he will be switching to the GOP. None.

[Stinky The Clown]

31. I wouldn't bet an hours pay on that, let alone a whole week's

He's proven he only cares about himself. He'll go to whoever buds highest. Its what whores do.

And he's a red-lipped, rouge-cheeked, bustier wearing whore.

[Imagevision]

29. Personaly, I believe Lamont will win, Lieberman pollster found guilty

5 weeks ago, also same pollster worked for Bush.

[Stinky The Clown]

32. That doesn't mean too much.

All the unconvicted - unaccused - pollsters see Lamont waaaay behind at this point.

[kohodog]

33. Bush fires Rummy, replaces him with scumbag Joe

And Jodi Rell replaces him with a republican. Game, set, match.

Actually, I have been thinking about posting this, but I hate going down that road.

I think it is much closer than the Q poll says, and more than 5% of republicans will vote for Schlessinger. His yard signs are even startint to pop up in my town. He's gainlng!

[Clarkie1]

34. This is fantasyland. Lieberman will caucus with Dems if re-elected. nt

[NJ Democrats]

35. First, Joe will continue to caucus with the Dems if

or more likely when at this point, he wons. However, if I'm the Dem leader, and he might causcus with the Pukes I give him a committe chairminship and all the restg to make sure he stays. He still votes with us 90% of the time, and we get control with him caucusing with us.