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From Politico: It seems that Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) had some choice words for fellow Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) during yesterday’s closed-door discussion over how Democrats would punish Lieberman for his alacritous promotion of John McCain through the presidential campaign.
Lieberman had threatened to defect to the Republican Party if Democrats pulled him from his [...]

This in from The Hill:
Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), a close ally of Sen. Joe Lieberman, said the Connecticut Independent should pay a price for his campaign attacks against President-elect Barack Obama.
“There need to be consequences, and they cannot be insignificant,” Carper said in a Monday interview with The Hill.