Dems NEVER really had 60. TWI: Lieberman Calls for 'Move to the Center,' Doesn't Rule Out Switch

[Pirate Smile]

Lieberman Calls for 'Move to the Center,' Doesn't Rule Out Switch to GOP

By Mike Lillis 1/19/10 5:50 PM
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who’s done plenty in recent months to alienate Democrats, won’t improve his standing with his comments today to Fox News. Asked by Neil Cavuto if he would switch to the Republican Party if the GOP somehow took over the Senate in this year’s elections, Lieberman declared that he has “no idea.”

“That’s a big hypothetical a long away from now,” he said. “I was elected as an Independent but I remained a registered Democrat, so I’m with the Democratic Caucus.”

Today’s tight Senate contest in Massachusetts, Lieberman added, is indication that Capitol Hill has grown too partisan — and voters are fed up. “The independents are speaking loudly around the country today and they’re telling us, one, to get together here in Washington,” he said. “The second thing really is to do something about the economy and move to the center and worry about things that are worried about.”

That’s no music to the ears of liberals who were hoping that the pendulum swing away from the Bush administration might arc longer than just a year.

http://washingtonindependent.com/74245/lieberman-calls-for-move-to-the-center-doesnt-rule-out-switch-to-gop

False illusion over - if anyone ever really believed it.

[LiberalFighter]

1. I'm all for a move to the center. Except Lieberman is actually advocating

moving the the right.

IMO the center is somewhere just to the left of right leaning Democrats.

[CTLawGuy]

2. if he has any prayer of winning in 12

it'd have to be as an R. Ds and indies hate him here.

[elocs]

3. Yes, that 60 votes in the Senate was really smoke and mirrors. n/t

[depakid]

4. The single smartest and most appropriate thing to do is yank this guy's seniority and committee

That it wasn't done in 2009 was the source of a lot of problems.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. And to think he could have been our candidate in 2008

What was Gore thinking?

[IndianaGreen]

7. Holy Joe as the sitting Vice President running unopposed for the nomination

and then doing all the bad things he has done, including war with Iran.

[msongs]

6. from bush to bush lite is hardly a move to the center really nt

[IndianaGreen]

8. C'mon Joe, quit pretending and put that 'R' after your name

Complete your Sith training!

[IndianaGreen]

9. Lieberman Urges Party To Go Centrist After Mass. Election

Lieberman Urges Party To Go Centrist After Mass. Election

Eager to prove that the Democratic Party left him and not the other way around, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) urged his colleagues on Tuesday to move to the "center" following a humbling Senate race in Massachusetts.

"I think the message is from the voters of Massachusetts that people are anxious about the future and they're unhappy about what's happening in Washington," said the Connecticut Independent Democrat, during an interview on Fox News. "They're anxious about the economy, the continued high unemployment. They don't like all the partisanship and deal-making here in Washington. And they're really skeptical about the health care bill."

"So this is going to be a loud message from Massachusetts and whether it's right or wrong, I was impressed again by one of the national polls I saw yesterday that said two things; one is opposition to health care reform is very large among independents, unregistered with the party voters, and Massachusetts is thought of as a blue state and it generally does vote Democratic but almost 50% of the voters are unaffiliated so they've got the liberty to..."

Asked whether he was giving any additional consideration to formally leaving the Democratic Party to caucus with Republicans, Lieberman repeated that his intent was to remain in his current standing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/19/lieberman-urges-party-to_n_428686.html

[yellowcanine]

10. "Bigg hypothetical" anyone else would have no problem answering "NO!" to.

Just sayin.

[WI_DEM]

11. Sure he is an opportunist and will jump if GOP regains. I say if Coakley loses we don't have 60

and we should tell Joe to get the hell out.