"Without his place in the Democratic caucus Joe Lieberman will have a more difficult time peddling the Lieberman myth to voters."

 Your sentence is correct for people who think on their own.  Foe the Repug sheep, I can see the headlines now:

 Democrats throw "Moderate" out of party. Democratic Party becomes party of only the left, or some lie like that.  He will help McCain in the Repug primaries, but I think his endorsement will mean little in the general election.

the sake of the party and getting things through the Senate.  We took Harry Reid and the rets of the caucus at their word when they embraced Joe and kept quiet fo rthe good of the party, its message, and the mission.

Well, it's a year later and how'd that all work out?  That's right, we have REGRESSED partially because of kowtowing to Joe.

Sometimes you've got to make a sacrifice now to gain something better later.  We would have been better off to have given Joe the middle finger then.  We didn't.  And now, we are not only in the exact same boat legislatively as we would have been if we waved goodbye, but we have EMPOWERED the man and made him into an asset for McCain.  And if McCain beats us in November, then that will have mushroomed into an all-time mistake.

Thanks, Harry Reid.  I told you so.

Once Democrats get a majority, they need to throw this piece of scum out. They should go on the offensive and clearly show how Lieberman has been attacking other democrats for differing views while he pleaded for diversity of opinion when it came to his views alone.

I think the Bhutto killing, the US dollar decline, China's mischief making on a global scale for mercenary reasons, and our own domestic decline are enough indicators of how misplaced our priorities were in enabling this war in iraq. What a waste of money. What a waste of life. What a waste of time that could have been spent finding solutions for other far more pressing issues.

I often wonder if Republicans find McCain as unpalatable as Democrats do Joe Lieberman.  To me it seems obvious that the only hope for the Republican party is John McCain.  But I guess he has simply violated too many of their core values to be considered a strong advocate.  Is Joe Lieberman the Democratic analogue?

Let's say for the sake of argument that McCain and Lieberman represent the same political philosophy and that Republicans have the same degree of animosity toward McCain that Democrats have toward Lieberman.  This means that the recent surge in the polls for McCain is equivalent to Republican capitulation on their core values.  In other words, the minority party may finally be a minority.

Lieberman's spin said nothing about American values or the Constitution.

Lieberman is as uncomfortable with espousing American and Constitutional values as are Republicans.

God forbid that the words, "Liberty and justice for all" would ever roll off Joe Lieberman's tongue.