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To: Paul Smith who wrote (134590)	3/24/2010 11:47:18 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542907

It is just cold calculation politics. Lieberman is Senator #60 for the Democrats (before Scott Brown). If he was Senator #61, he would likely have been treated much worse. You are conflating two things: keeping him in the caucus for those votes and letting him retain the chair. As I just typed to Dale, I'm convinced he would have stayed in the caucus even without keeping the Homeland Security committee chair. And his vote didn't help with the medicare to 55 proposal. As for voting with the Dems in that final vote that put it over the top, he would have done so. None of this is, of course, testable. Just my sense for Lieberman. As cranky and unpredictable as he is, he's extremely unlikely to leave the party. So long as the Reps are not a hospitable place.