{"id":24718,"date":"2007-02-23T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:55:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:55:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:55:23","slug":"joe_lieberman_most_powerful_man_in_the_senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/02\/23\/joe_lieberman_most_powerful_man_in_the_senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Lieberman: Most Powerful Man in the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>I said yesterday that Mitch McConnell is the most powerful man in the Senate. Oh, by the way, this is big news, and I forget it to mention this, Tom Vilsack, the governor of Iowa, has announced that he is dropping out of the Democratic presidential sweepstakes for this year. I had forgotten he got in. When I saw the story, I thought first, when did he get in? So Vilsack\u2019s gone. I wanted to make sure we keep you informed, the cutting edge of the latest political news. <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignright\"\/>So I said yesterday that Mitch McConnell is the most powerful man in the Senate, the Republican leader, and have been telling you this ever since the election. The Senate is where liberalism, Democrat Party legislation can be stopped. Republicans in the House are powerless. But now there\u2019s a new contender for the most powerful man in the Senate, and that is Joe Lieberman, because Lieberman told the Politico.com website yesterday that while he has no immediate plans to switch parties, it is something on the table. The reason for it is Democrat opposition to funding the war in Iraq. Lieberman now is operating as an independent, caucuses with the Democrats, and has been among the strongest supporters of the war and President Bush\u2019s plan for the surge. Lieberman said, ?I have no desire to change parties. If that ever happens, it\u2019s because I feel a majority of Democrats have gone in a direction I don\u2019t feel comfortable with.? In fact, it\u2019s even worse than that. <\/line><BR\/>Lieberman has stopped attending the weekly lunches of the Senate Democrats because he finds it totally uncomfortable to talk about Iraq with them. He just doesn\u2019t want to be around them talking about Iraq. So Dingy Harry has offered to have the Iraq discussions at another occasion so that Lieberman can attend the Wednesday lunches, or the weekly lunches, I don\u2019t know when they\u2019re held with the Senate Democrats. Now, why does this make Lieberman the most powerful man in the Senate, or at least the second most powerful? Because he\u2019s put it out there that he could switch parties. And if he does, with Tim Johnson &#8212; who, by the way, has flown back to South Dakota for rehabilitation. He\u2019s left the hospital in Washington, but he\u2019s nowhere near returning to active duty in the Senate, and so his vote doesn\u2019t happen. But even with that, if Lieberman were to become a Republican, guess who runs the Senate? <\/line><BR\/>The Republicans would have the majority in the Senate, plus the vice president\u2019s vote on legislation. That would throw everything that Pelosi and these people have just totally out of whack. It would just gum up the works. All these committee chairmanships, they\u2019d be out there demanding a co-sharing agreement and equal membership on each committee like they did when Jim Jeffords switched parties and made the Democrats 50-50, and Trent Lott went along with this, of course. He\u2019s going to be able to get what he wants, within reason, from both parties. He\u2019s more closely aligned with the Republicans on the issue that matters most to the Democrats in the Senate anyway, and that is Iraq. I don\u2019t know that he would ever do it, but just saying he might has the Senate Democrats &#8212; they\u2019ve gotta be nervous as hell. They can\u2019t offend him and they can\u2019t do something that\u2019s going to cause him to switch and they\u2019re going to be walking on eggshells over this. Good move, good political move by Senator Lieberman. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said yesterday that Mitch McConnell is the most powerful man in the Senate. Oh, by the way, this is big news, and I forget it to mention this, Tom Vilsack, the governor of Iowa, has announced that he is dropping out of the Democratic presidential sweepstakes for this year. 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