Word: liebermanically
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...President-elect Barack Obama can forgive, so can we.' THOMAS R. CARPER, Democratic Senator from Delaware, on allowing Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to serve in the Democratic caucus despite Lieberman's campaigning for John McCain...
Over a year ago, on this same page, I called for Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman to follow his political instincts and officially switch parties, thereby sacrificing his powerful political position in the pursuit of transparency regarding his motives and party status. Yesterday, after a year in which the Connecticut senator called the McCain-Palin candidacy the “real ticket for change” and suggested his own party’s candidate did not “put country first,” the Democratic Party failed to make this change for Lieberman by stripping...
...shrewdness as well. The surprising proffer to Clinton came the same week that Obama sat down with John McCain in Chicago and helped engineer a commutation for Senator Joe Lieberman, who had backed McCain in the election and faced possibly being stripped of his committee chairmanship. The general amnesty campaign, part of a promise to change the way Washington works, impressed some longtime partisans. "It's brilliant," says a senior Republican Party official. "My hat is totally off to the guy." Viewed more cynically, bringing Clinton into the tent could co-opt a potential adversary...
...move reassured doubtful green activists. Concern for the environment is traditionally the first thing thrown overboard when economic seas get rough. That's what appeared to have happened in June, when the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, the first national bill mandating greenhouse-gas emissions caps to receive a full vote in the Senate, went down in defeat, in part because critics exploited fears that the bill would raise already record-high energy prices...
Many members of the caucus are still furious with Lieberman - 13 voted against him in the secret ballot, and many more emerged saying that while the decision was good for the country, they personally will have a tough time forgiving him. That lingering resentment should help guarantee Lieberman's cooperation. "It is the iron law of reciprocity. He will remember and help those who helped him at a critical time in the future," says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. "It is politically smart. The President and the Democrats will need...