Lieberman is coy about role

(Very) unfortunately, the Democratic Party still needs Joe Lieberman to vote with them. I suppose he will now attempt to sell his soul back to the Democratic Party.

Can you say "opportunist?" He is disgusting. He's almost as insincere and disingenuous as McCain or Hillary.

Lieberman ..... could you please make up your mind which team you wanna play for. Looks like you like to play both sides whichever is convenient to you. That is very immature if you ask me...

Senator Lieberman,

I admire you for standing up for your principles when you supported John McCain and I despise the Democratic party for its morally and ethically bankrupt position to censure you for it. Many Democrats could learn from your actions in how to behave honorably.

Yes, we all want to unite... we are all Americans, if there are ruskies landing troops on Long Island then we fight together to defend ourselves. If it is raising taxes as our "Patriotic Duty" to give Democratic Party hacks more jobs and extort the public for licenses and permits to do anything like they did it in Barrack Obama's Chicago then you can go screw.

which team he wants to play for? didn't he already state that he is playing for team america and not team republican or democrat. we need more of this and not less of it. he should vote on the issue and not just on party line. if harry reid was smart, he would endorse this otherwise the democratics will provide clear evidence immediately that they are going to continue partisan politics as usual.....

Any Democrat who actively undermines the Democratic candidate for President should expect to feel consequences for their actions. Buh bye Joementum. Enjoy being senior member of the Independent Democrat party. You will find a nice basement office has been provided for you. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Now that the election is over and the country chosen Barrack Obama as our next President and I also agree it is history in the making.Although I was supporting Mccain/Palin ticket but it's over and my next President is Barrack Obama and I will support Obama wholeheartedly.I'm not one of the people continue whinning and complaining about our defeat as supporters of Mccain/Palin and the Republican Party.No one Party is to stand tall all the time and that's the nature of things,there are good times and not so good times and the only people can point that out are the voters.My friends lets support President elect Obama and his lovely wife Michell and their daughters Malia and Sasha aren't they lovely those two little girls and their dad is proud of them.

If the Democrats are smart and genuinely want to set a concilliatory tone they will start with Lieberman.

They need him, and he could harm Obama's agenda, with his connections to MCCain , who they need to reach across the aisle too.

We will see if the Democrats are mean-spirited under Obama. I fear they will be and that may bite them later.

Lieberman is nothing more than a WEASEL who sold his soul to the Republicans. If he wasn't intelligent enough to see where the republican Party and Bush took us the last eight years then who needs him as he crawls back for for his own selfish reasons.

I wouldn't trust Lieberman to sharpen my pencils. The Dems should throw him out and let him be what he wants to be: a Repugnican. Does Connecticut have a recall option?

Senator Lieberman, has made up his mind which side to play for... He's playing for the American people! Keep being independent, keep doing what you know to be right and Just. Keep being there for EVERYONE's interests! That is how the "game" should be played.

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Can someone please explain to the new Obama administration the principles of Keynesian economics? British economist John Maynard Keynes was the leading economist immediately after the Great Depression. Keynes wrote extensively about the causes that made the economy after the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, (known as Black Tuesday) to become the Depression that some American policies then caused to become "Great" (as in the Great Depression).

I am saddened by the Obama campaign/administration's refusal to look at American history for clues as to what may happen in the future. Obama's economic policies are an exact mirror of what President Hoover enacted that worsened the 1929-1932 recession after he took office. I am extraordinarily happy we have a man of color as our President, but disturbed by his lack of perspective. Even the 2008 Noble prizer for ecomnoics, Paul Krugman knows and understands exactly what Keynes would think of the current financial crisis with frozen credit markets (a liquidity crisis). If BHO wants to be a great president his first oval office book should be: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in February 1936.

At least get the new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel to read it... please!

To all of the Obama supporters, whatever your reason for supporting him: We who opposed Obama will extend him and your chosen party EXACTLY the same sort of courtesy, respect, decency, support, cooperation, and assistance that you have so generously and enthusiastically given President Bush for the past 8 years, and we will ENJOY doing so, just as YOU have all this time. In fact, we'll try to be even MORE generous! Elephants have LONG memories, you know.

Lieberman shows the true meaning of bipartisanship. Punishing that sends a clear message that the Democrats are no better than the Republicans they have sought to replace. Apparently, to some it's "my party right or wrong" instead of what is the right thing for the country (or allowing some people the right to pursue what *they* think is right). Is the Democratic party planning on casting out all of us who registered as Democrats but have once supported for a Republican?

Lieberman has nothing to do with bipartisanship. He quit the Democratic party in 2006 after he lost the primary in CT. He won as an Independent but caucuses with the Democrats. He choose to support and actively campaign against the Democratic candidate for President. Deputy Dawg is not welcome in the Democratic Caucus and he should be stripped of all seniority based positions. Those positions are for DEMOCRATS, not independents. Lieberman can chair all of the committees run by the independents. Goodbye and good riddance.

Obama knows about John Keynes. The interventionist government bailout is Keynesian. The stimulus packages he supported are Keynesian. Obama is very pro IMF and World Bank. However Obama is more an acolyte of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics than even older, less advanced economic thinking like Keynes.

MazzStudio, you should study up a bit on Keynes. He was a member of the British Eugenics Society. Obama probably isn't too fond of that outdated thinking either.

I voted for Obama, without reservations, against Hillary and then against McCain. I do not begrudge Lieberman's choice to back McCain. As a Democrat or an Independent, I appreciate his voting record and his legislative ideas in the Senate. I hope he keeps his committee positions with the Democrats. If not, I hope he does not join the Republicans with the notion of making them more moderate--a noble goal for someone else, but not for a man who has proven over the years to be one of our best Democrats.

Lieberman is Judas. He needs to be ex-communicated as a matter of principle. Not to punish him under the guise of the "Big Tent" is to insult every loyal Obama supporter. Lieberman had no shame. He should have no refuge.

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Sucker please, If you were a supporter of George Bush after 2005 then you need to get your head examined. At what point do you see what a terrible blunder of a president he is. The people, and it was not just Dems, there were Repubs and Independents in there nailing Bush for his insanity were and are right to do so.

While I beleive that Obama will make a great president and will turn this country around, you bring the noise when you think he screws up. That is the best part of being an American, having the right to say what I think of my government.

I have not spoken with a single fellow CT resident who wants Joe to represent them any longer. I don't care if Joe supported McCain. I do care that he actively campaigned against Obama using the same, tired republican lies and distortions.

Joe is an opportunist. All of this "Country First" and bi-partisan talk is nonsense. This is an internal Democratic matter over who is best fit to lead the party and congressional committees. Joe has proven that he is not a reliable democrat and must go. It's no different when a new management comes in to a corporation. We're all pulling for the same end but want trustworthy, honorable people. That is NOT Joe Lieberman

"Can you say "opportunist?" He is disgusting. He's almost as insincere and disingenuous as McCain or Hillary." - Astute observation. One of Bill and Hillary's first jobs out of college was working on the campaign to elect Joe Lieberman to congress in the early 70's. Clinton-McCain-Bush-Lieberman, all part of the same cabal of close friends. Lieberman isn't bipartisan in the least, he was bucking for Secretary of State, Defence or Homeland Security and everyone knows it, because come 2012, he's done in government, and he very well knows it.

Lieberman took a gamble stepping across party line to support his close friend McCain instead of Obama, and it didn't quite pay off. Voting on belief, with the Democrats on most issues except Iraq and security, he did an honorable thing, holding to his morals. I admire his willingness to vote for whichever side he believed was right, not just whichever side his party wanted him to vote for. Politics don't exactly reward honor or morals, though. The nature of the political system, though, doesn't really allow for bipartisanship. It possesses a very strong us vs. them attitude, vote with us in all cases, or we will excommunicate you.
But be assured, if he goes, which he most likely will, it will be seen by many a justice, but to many others, he will become a martyr, politically destroyed for trying to turn America into a bipartisan country, where politicians can vote for what they believe is best for the country that elected them to serve.

Joe Lieberman promised a pardon to convicted Cuban terrorist Eduardo Arocena at a McCain rally.

Joe Lieberman told Obama he should run for President, then smeared him repeatedly.

Joe Lieberman is known to Democrats as a liar. You cannot work with him. If he only supported McCain and did not attack Obama it would be different by he abused his office.

The problem with Lieberman, is that he has done this before, so really has no excuse, and shouldn't have any expectations. He used to joke about how much the democrats needed him. It wouldn't have been so bad for him to merely support McCain, but he made and repeated several times,some very disparaging remarks about Obama, and very actively campaigned for him. I can see forgiving him to some extent, but he does not deserve a chairmanship.

I wonder if everyone around Barack Obama does understand what Keynes was about. First, he was as interested in using monetary policy (interest rate cuts) to stimulate the economy as fiscal (spending) stimulus. Second, he was very concerned about the risks of inflation, and also was basically pro free markets and pro free trade (although he had a brief protectionist period). Third, he thought that there needed to be international coordination of economic policies so that national policies could be made to work (and not be undercut by international forces) and that there needed to be strong and appropriate international economic institutions. One of the best places for seeing these sides of Keynes is D Markwell's scholarly book on 'John Maynard Keynes and International Relations' (which is also concerned with economic causes of international conflict and economic means, like free trade under some circumstances at least, of promoting peace). It would be good to see more signs that the Obama advisers understand the importance of international economic diplomacy and effective cooperation. They could take a leaf out of the book, not only of Keynes (as Markwell presents him), but of Gordon Brown, who is the international leader at the moment saying the most sensible things about the all-important international economic cooperation.