By Thomas B Edsall - Sitting Pretty, Lieberman Thumbs His Nose At Dems

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"Suddenly in the catbird seat, the 65-year-old Connecticut senator is thriving on thumbing his nose at the party that over the past three years has caused him such anguish.

Democratic Party leaders now go out of their way to speak kindly of him, but Lieberman appears to revel in his taunts.

Asked by the Hill about the possibility of switching parties Lieberman replied, "I have no interest or desire in doing that. I wouldn't foreclose it as a possibility, but I hope that I don't reach that point." What would it take? "Well, I guess I'd know it. It's like Justice [Potter] Stewart and his definition of obscenity: he couldn't define it but he'd know when he saw it. I think I'll know it when I feel it, but I hope I never get to that point." Lieberman refused to answer questions from the Huffington Post about his party-switching potential."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/08/15/sitting-pretty-lieberman_n_60545.html

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