IS LIEBERMAN SET TO MOVE FROM INDEPENDENT TO REPUBLICAN

It certainly sounds like Joe is thinking about switching. He really fears a democrat super-majority.

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he fears that America will be hurt if Democrats achieve a 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate as a result of the elections.

His remarks Tuesday could further damage his relationship with his former party. The Democratic base is already calling for him to be stripped of his chairmanship. However, it could also be an indication that Lieberman could deny his former party the 60-seats it seeks.

Lieberman was asked on the Glenn Beck radio show whether he agreed with GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) that “if we don’t at least have the firewall of the filibuster in the Senate, that in many ways America will not survive.”

“Well, I hope it’s not like that, but I fear,” Lieberman responded.

Hatch, in an earlier appearance on Fox News, had said: “If we don’t have the right to utilize that filibuster rule and force the Democrats to have to get 60 votes, you’re going to get some of the worst legislation in the history of the country.”

Lieberman touted the filibuster rule.

“[I]t was really put there, a 60-vote requirement, as somebody said to me when I first came to the Senate, to stop the passions of a moment among the people of America from sweeping across the Congress, the House, to the Senate and to a likeminded president and having us do things that will change America for a long time,” Lieberman said. “So the filibuster is one of the great protections we have.”