Joe Lieberman Holds the Senate Hostage

Here's a transcript of Joe Lieberman's appearance on Meet the Press this weekend. The veiled threats to switch over and hand the Senate back to the Republicans are not very well disguised:

MR. RUSSERT: If in fact they ask for discipline in the Democratic caucus, and you start to feel uncomfortable with it, would you consider crossing across the--going across the aisle, and joining the Republicans, if they gave you the same chairmanship that you had, and respected your seniority?

SEN. LIEBERMAN: Yeah. Well, that's a hypothetical, which I'm, I'm not going to deal with here.
...

MR. RUSSERT: Jim Jeffords of Vermont crossed over and joined the Democrats.

SEN. LIEBERMAN: Yeah.

MR. RUSSERT: And they gave--they gave him his committee chairmanship.

SEN. LIEBERMAN: Yeah.

MR. RUSSERT: You're, you're not ruling that out at some future time?

SEN. LIEBERMAN: I'm not ruling it out, but I hope I don't get to that point.

The Young Turks