U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman held a brief press conference in Washington D.C. today following his meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada.
The two are talking Lieberman’s future after the Stamford native and self-described “independent Democrat” campaigned for Repubican John McCain during the just concluded presidential race. Reportedly no decisions were made today.
At stake is Lieberman’s chairmanship of the Government Services and Homeland security Committee and possibly his senior standing within the Senate’s Democratic caucus.
In a phone interview yesterday, Greenwich Democrat Ned Lamont, who won the party’s primary against Lieberman in 2006 but lost the general election to the incumbent, declined to weigh in on whether his former opponent should be punished by his colleagues.
And, Lamont suspected, it might not come to that.
“I think Senator Lieberman feels a lot more comfortable in the Republican column,” he said. “It used to be just about foreign policty but it’s now on a wider variety of issues. My hunch is he will slip over to the Republican side very soon. I don’t think anybody has to push.”
