How could Connecticut do that to the country?

It is almost impossible to understand why Connecticut did that to the country. How could that state send back to the senate a compulsive liar like Lieberman? In his last TV ads before the election, Lieberman was talking about "bringing out troops home" without "compromising national security". That got him re-elected. 4 days after the election, he was talking on Meet the Press about "consider sending more troops to Iraq", like McCain. He also implied that, if he has to, he will switch to the republican party.

Many Connecticut voters demonstrated lack of understanding of what was at stake. In fact the 32% of the democrats who voted for (and re-elected Lieberman), are either right wing republicans and dont know it, or are simply politically illiterate and they have no idea of what is going on around them. You can not be a anti-war democrat and vote for the Iraq war and against the democratic party. Thats what a vote for Lieberman was in reality.

What to do next? The democrats should completely ignore Lieberman, and if he wants not to support the democrats in the senate, thats fine. A senate minority without Lieberman is much better than a senate majority with Lieberman. If the democrats keep compromising on Iraq and other issues, to make sure that Lieberman is happy, they will be defeated in 2008. Big time.