"I wonder what Joe Lieberman has to do in order for Harry Reid to realize that Holy Joe is not with the Democrats. Lieberman supported the Republican candidate for president, he ran against his own party's nominee in 2006 to win re-election, and he's been a thorn in Reid's side ever since. I don't know what Lieberman wants. He clearly isn't interested in switching parties, because he's just an egotistical little man, not a batshit crazy lunatic, so he's unlikely to be accepted in today's Republican party. And he's clearly no Democrat. Lieberman is increasingly the Senator for the State of Being a Dick For the Sake of Being a Dick. I'm sure this makes him feel very powerful, but Harry Reid's decision to continue to regard Joe Lieberman as an ally, to the point of turning the health care reform bill into nothing but a mandate to buy the kind of crappy, overpriced, no-coverage-when-it-counts insurance that's on the market now in a vain effort to placate Lieberman, is going to be very costly for Reid's party, and the nation, in 2012." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet