Obama Targets Core Constituencies In Midterms Home Stretch

I'm not counting Lieberman as a Democrat, nor am I arguing with you about that, although you might want to take it up with Lieberman's spokeswoman Leslie Phillips, who told Newsweek in early 2007 (after he'd left the Democratic Party after losing the Democratic nomination in 2006), "The senator is an independent Democrat and answers only to the people who elected him to office and to his own conscience." http://www­.newsweek.­com/2007/0­1/10/bush-­s-best-dem­ocratic-bu­ddy.html



I've already explained 'party government' to you, & how that translates into the actual functioning of the Senate: Through a hierarchy, defined by Caucuses, what it means to be in the majority's caucus. As a general rule, for all votes having to do with cloture & filibusters (particularly when it comes on landmark or 'centerpiece' legislation that the parties have just run on), every senator can be counted on to vote with the caucus that he's in.



Obama insisted Lieberman remain in the DemocraticCaucus, in spite of multiple betrayals by Lieberman before & during the 2008 election (Lieberman endorsed McCain, campaigned FOR McCain) & over the objections of the members of the DemocraticCaucus.



http://www.huf fingtonpos­t.com/jane­-hamsher/o­bama-wants­-lieberman­-to_b_1432­99.html



http://www­.thedailyb­east.com/b­logs-and-s­tories/200­8-11-10/li­ebermans-e­mpty-promi­ses/1/



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