Is anybody keeping a tally of the former Republicans who have given up on getting their party and are joining the Democratic party? If this were the reverse trend, I suspect that the media would be drowning us in headlines about how the Democratic party has become so extreme that loyal members are jumping ship, not to become moderates, but to join the opposition.

all right, as much as lieberman irritates me, let's face the facts on the ground for now. if lieberman stays true (more or less) to the democratic agenda, then let's call a cease fire on this one. unity is more important than this guy is.

lieberman has to understand (though narcisist that he is, perhaps not) that if he betrays the democrats who voted for him, his political life will be on borrowed time, if it is not already. my prediction is that he will never win another election for higher office unless he either moves to a different state (texas joe) or really toes the line. republicans voted him into office this time. they will not be able (or possibly even willing) to do it again in CT.

Whittman and Lieberman deserve each other. As Jim Hightower always says, there's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos. Yellow lines and dead armadillos would do the democratic party and the nation a hell of a lot more good than these two twits will.

Marshall also used to work as a legislative affairs staffer for the National Treasury Employees Union in the late '70s early '80s

Just so the world will know (maybe not care), I predict that Joe Lieberman will switch political parties and 'become' a Republican soon after the new congress convenes in January. The good people of Connecticut will be left with their mouths agape.

As the world may remember, I also opined that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and that George Bush ginned up the evidence to justify an invasion to show his father that once in life he could do something right.