Lieberman looking for a political home

And the Joe Lieberman drama continues.

The Associated Press reports that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is talking to the independent senator from Connecticut caucusing with the GOP.

Lieberman's future in the Senate is in doubt. The Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2000 angered Democrats by openly supporting Republican John McCain for president.

On Thursday, Lieberman met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, and both the AP and CNN are reporting that Reid is considering yanking Lieberman's chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as punishment.

But CNN reports that an aide to Lieberman says the senator made clear that was “not acceptable” to him, and reminded Reid that he was one of the senators who wrote the legislation creating the Homeland Security Department, and that’s where he wants to stay. Nothing was resolved in the meeting, and the Lieberman aide told CNN that he still wants to caucus with the Democrats.

"Joe Lieberman has done something that I think was improper, wrong, and I'd like -- if we weren't on television, I'd use a stronger word of describing what he did," Reid told CNN. "But Joe Lieberman votes with me a lot more than a lot of my senators. He didn't support us on military stuff and he didn't support us on Iraq stuff. But you look at his record, it's pretty good."

A Lieberman aide, who requested anonymity because the talks are confidential, told the AP today that Lieberman and McConnell have spoken in recent days about the possibility of Lieberman joining the GOP conference. McConnell spokesman Don Stewart would only confirm that the two men have had recent discussions.

After picking up at least six seats on Tuesday, Democrats now control 57 seats (counting Lieberman and independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont), with three races still undecided. They are trying to reach 60 seats for a potentially filibuster-proof majority.