Lieberman Quits Centrist Coalition, Starts New Group

James Joyner · Thursday, December 21, 2006 · 4 Comments

Roll Call‘s Emily Pierce reports:

Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) has relinquished his position as co-chairman of the Senate Centrist Coalition, halting talks with co-chairwoman Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) over the future of the organization in favor of creating his own bipartisan group with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.).

Interesting, although I’m not sure what to make of it. One wonders whether they will adopt plaid shirts as the official group uniform.

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Mark says:

Thursday, December 21, 2006 at 14:14

Maybe the prerequisite for joining is to have an exclamation point after your first name.

Lamar! and Joe!

Actually, I think Hillary! could also join.

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davod says:

Thursday, December 21, 2006 at 17:01

I would think Lamar is a bit more centrist than Snowe.

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Patrick T. McGuire says:

Thursday, December 21, 2006 at 22:15

Hopefully this is a precursor to a new political party, one that places conservative American values first.

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LeftCoastRightWinger says:

Friday, December 22, 2006 at 00:37

Patrick T. McGuire – new party?

thats the ticket.
I’d join the Whigs to leave all the RINOsaurs behind.

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