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  • From: David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Capturing the Senate
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:02:07 -0500

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think Lieberman ran as an Independent
(unaffiliated) candidate, and not as part of the Independent party.

David

On 11/12/06 1:13 AM, "Greg Brown" <gwbrown1 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> If I would have had any say at all in the Senate (which I don't of course) I
> would have kicked Joe "It's all about me" Lieberman to the curb yet the dems
> allowed him to keep his senality even though he belongs to the biggest joke
> of
> a party since whatever Jessie "the mind" Ventura created to capture that
> governorship somewhere up North. A$$hole. And this isn't the first time he
> has put his political well-being above that of his party. Not by a long
> shot
> and it won't be the last.
>
> Defeat Lieberman. Again. Please.
>
> On 11/11/06, Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com> wrote:
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>> Cristobal Palmer wrote:
>>> The _caucus_ with the most members gets to set the agenda,
>>> chairmanships, etc. etc. If you don't pick a caucus, you don't get a
>>> nice seat on a committee.
>>
>> Bernie Sanders, nominally a Socialist, was elected to the Senate from
>> Vermont. He's been a member of the House for years and has always
>> caucused with Democrats for leadership votes.
>>
>> Joseph Lieberman has been nominally a Democrat and even received the
>> Democratic Party nomination for Vice President in 2004. He only became
>> an "independent" this year when the filthy turncoat betrayed his party
>> after losing the Senate nomination to Ned Lamont and ran on his own.
>> This was a good political calculation on his part because he did succeed
>> in getting re-elected to the Senate on the strength of his personal base
>> in the state. Lieberman has promised to caucus with the Democrats as
>> well.
>>
>> These two independents will give the Democrats control of the Senate.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>> On 11/10/06, DonBartholf AT aol.com <DonBartholf AT aol.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> OK - I admit to sleeping a lot during Civics 101. If the Dems have 49
>>>> seats
>>>> and the Reps have 49 seats and the Ind have 2 seats, how come the Dems
>>>> get
>>>> control? I've seen little tag sentences that say the Ind. vote with the
>>>> Dems, but if so, they don't sound so independant. What if the Inds said
>>>> they
>>>> were voting with the Reps? Sounds like the Inds could get some
>>>> concessions
>>>> and or name a price to join a voting block
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Don Bartholf
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