We better hope they don’t cross the aisle when Mitch needs to do one his famous filibusters. Otherwise we’re f’d if they jump ship. You know Lieberman is going to especially after seeing Shays lose his house seat.
At least we HAVE the opportunity to hope they don’t jump across the aisle.
It will be interesting to see what senators like Ben Nelson (NE) do on potential far left legislation. His constituency is well to the right of what his party could potentially try to push.
Lieberman is going to begin to caucus with the GOP. The RATs are going to strip him of his committee chairmanship tomorrow.
Lieberman doesn’t face CT voters again until 2012 - he will pay zero political price on any public policy issue by voting NO on cloture - even if he supports something better on final passage.
Every cloture vote is a unique undertaking on both sides of the aisle.