Lieberman, Anti-War Foe Go to Congress
By REUTERS
Published: September 6, 2006
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joseph Lieberman received an ovation from fellow U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday while his anti-war challenger, Ned Lamont, won more party vows of support in the November 7 election.
"They're on board 100 percent,'' Lamont said after a meeting with Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, head of the Senate Democratic campaign committee. "I think they'll do a lot to help us.''
Hours earlier, Reid saluted Lieberman upon his return to Congress for the first time since losing the Democratic primary in Connecticut to Lamont last month, and beginning a new bid for re-election as an independent.
"Welcome back, Joe,'' Reid of Nevada told Lieberman at a closed-door meeting of Senate Democrats, prompting lawmakers to stand and applaud the three-term incumbent who was the party's 2000 vice presidential nominee. "Glad you are back.''
Lieberman said he appreciated the greeting and shrugged off Reid's support of Lamont and his meeting with the party's nominee a day after the Senate returned from a month long recess....
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-lieberman.htmlON EDIT: Here's an article with a different view --
WP: For Lieberman, the 'I' Stands for 'Ignored'
By Dana Milbank
Thursday, September 7, 2006; Page A02
You could feel the temperature drop as Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut entered the Senate chamber yesterday for the first time since he lost his Democratic primary last month and became an independent candidate.
Democratic leaders Richard Durbin (Ill.) and Charles Schumer (N.Y.) kept a safe distance. Christopher Dodd (Conn.) gave him a perfunctory handshake. Harry Reid (Nev.), the minority leader, turned his back; when Lieberman approached, Reid indulged him in a quick handshake then quickly busied himself in another conversation.
Republican Susan Collins (Maine), spying Lieberman alone in the center aisle, rushed over with a hug and a kiss -- and a pledge to campaign for him in Connecticut. Could she feel the daggers in his back when she hugged him? Collins chuckled. "I told him I'm going to get him a dog named Harry," she told reporters later.
Harry Truman's famous adage -- If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog -- has never been truer. After Lieberman was vanquished by antiwar candidate Ned Lamont in last month's primary, 40 of the 45 members of the Senate Democratic caucus abandoned their longtime colleague and their party's former vice presidential nominee. In this town, partisanship is thicker than friendship.
"Joe Lieberman is out of step with the people of Connecticut," John Kerry (D-Mass.) harrumphed on the Sunday talk shows. To highlight their embrace of Lamont, Reid and Schumer invited him to meetings at the Capitol yesterday....
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