"It would have been better if Lamont had won. It would have radicalized the Dems more and gave greater power to moveon.org, etc."
I Don't think it's going to matter wrt radicalizeing the Dims that Lamont lost. First, Lieberman said today that he's going to try to support all his constituents and be independent. And, moveon, ACLU, et al are expecting payback for their assistance in the Dims win:
Liberal groups expect postelection results
Los Angeles Times ^ | 12 November 2006 | Peter Wallsten and Janet Hook,
Posted on 11/12/2006 4:20:41 AM PST by shrinkermd
WASHINGTON — After toppling the long-dominant Republicans in a hard-fought election, the Democratic Party's incoming congressional leaders have immediately found themselves in another difficult struggle — with their own supporters...
...Lobbyists for the American Civil Liberties Union, for example, are all but counting on Democrats to repeal the most controversial provisions of the Patriot Act, the anti-terrorist law pushed by the White House that some critics call unconstitutional. They also want to end President Bush's domestic wiretapping program...
...Similar vows are coming from lobbyists for abortion rights, who want to expand family-planning options for poor women and scale back Bush's focus on abstinence education, and from gun-control advocates, who hope to revive a lapsed ban on assault weapons. Labor unions, a core Democratic constituency, are demanding universal healthcare and laws discouraging corporations from seeking inexpensive labor overseas....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1737233/posts
My guess is that LIEberman is going to be a thorn in the dems side, every single day! LOL. No doubt they hate the site of him, standing there with that whiny voice being all smug.
Lieberman is back again as a Dem--actually he never left. He will be given his DHS chairmanship and will continue to vote with the Dems, e.g., against the confirmation of Alito. Lieberman has no principles. He wants to continue to feed at the public trough and be a member of the old boys club in the Senate. It is all about power and ego. If he had any principles, he would have accepted the verdict of his party in the primaries and got off the stage. Instead, withs the support of Reps, he is back in the Senate.