Senator Joe Lieberman: Lieberman Statement on Immigration Reform Agreement
WASHINGTON -Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) issued the following statement on the Immigration Reform agreement reached yesterday:

“The bi-partisan compromise on immigration reform legislation represents an important first step forward in addressing a serious national problem. It is long past time that we reform our immigration system in order to secure our borders, enforce our immigration laws, and provide a path to earned legalization for the millions of immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for years, held jobs, paid taxes, and contributed to our communities. The bill also promotes economic opportunity, and Connecticut and the nation would specifically benefit from provisions which would provide more access for employers to highly skilled workers who are needed to fuel economic growth. I understand that there are concerns about elements of this compromise. Working together across party lines we can make this good first step into an even better bill.”

I was reading Senator Lieberman’s position on the Immigration bill and heard some talk that he is very upset with the Democrats. Eventhough he’s a Democrat, he did loose his primary run, but won as an Independent. However, when he went to Washington he still stayed on as a Democrat. Could Lieberman switch over to the Republicans? Would this not give power to the Senate back to the Republicans?

As a conservative I have to say that I would seriously consider voting for him - he’s that much of a statesmen. As for his immigration stance, I think he and alot of the politians will find that over this Memorial Day holiday weekend they will get ALOT of negative press.

Seems to me that McCain is getting alot of negative press - we’ll see once the poll numbers come in, but I suspect that he will loose at least 4-5% of his support.