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Making the rounds: Joe Lieberman? All yarmulke, no Torah.

Writers of political science fiction spinning out endgame scenarios often assume, as a premise, the existence of independent Democrats. Maybe the Democrat-dominated Florida supreme court will rule this way, or a 50—50 split U.S. Senate will vote that way. If the impeachment saga is a guide, those Democrats will be as scarce as yeti when it comes to the crunch. Remember Sen. Moynihan, the Senate’s scholar, well known to dislike President Clinton? Sen. Byrd, sturdy old keeper of the Senate’s traditions? Sen. Lieberman? All voted the party line. If past is prologue, look for the Democrats’ motto to be E pluribus unum—which, as Vice President Gore will now know, means “Out of many, one.”

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Making the rounds: Joe Lieberman? All yarmulke, no Torah.

Writers of political science fiction spinning out endgame scenarios often assume, as a premise, the existence of independent Democrats. Maybe the Democrat-dominated Florida supreme court will rule this way, or a 50—50 split U.S. Senate will vote that way. If the impeachment saga is a guide, those Democrats will be as scarce as yeti when it comes to the crunch. Remember Sen. Moynihan, the Senate’s scholar, well known to dislike President Clinton? Sen. Byrd, sturdy old keeper of the Senate’s traditions? Sen. Lieberman? All voted the party line. If past is prologue, look for the Democrats’ motto to be E pluribus unum—which, as Vice President Gore will now know, means “Out of many, one.”