A Senator Who Loved To Kibitz

Say what you will about Joe Lieberman, the self-described "Independent Democrat" senator from Connecticut and onetime Democratic vice-presidential candidate. He was many things-honorable, devout, sanctimonious, maddening, and unfailingly warm and decent-all of which have been unpacked since his death yesterday, at 82. He elicited strong reactions, often from Democrats, over his various apostasies to liberal orthodoxy.