Poor Joe Lieberman. According to him, he didn’t leave the Democratic Party, every other Democrat in the country did:
“It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was strong internationalists, strong on defense, pro-trade, pro-reform in our domestic government,” he said. “It’s been effectively taken over by a small group on the left of the party that is protectionist, isolationist and very, very hyperpartisan. So it pains me.”
People who are never called to account, and sedulously avoid situations where they ever will be, can say things like this and get away with it. Lieberman insulates himself from any challenge to this weird world view. What this is really all about, of course, is the fact that the party has left Joe behind on Iraq. Howard Dean and Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and John Larson and Wesley Clark and–yes–, Al Gore (who is apparently no longer a member of the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party) along with all those dirty filthy hippy Lamont lovers that account for more than half the Connecticut Democratic party (and now, probably all of it), have been proven right about an issue about which Lieberman has been wrong from the start. No doubt Joe is feeling a bit put out these days. The “surge” is currently being exposed for the failure that it is, and Maliki, the U.S. puppet and Iranian stooge, has been revealed for the weakling that he is. Benedict Arnold probably went to his grave convinced he’d been true to the principles of the American Revolution, and Joe will go to his believing he’s the last real Democrat, as he votes for one Republican after another.
I hope Joe keeps saying stuff like this about the Democrats. Despite their best efforts, I still think the Democrats will have a hard time losing the presidential election this year. If they win, there will be nowhere for Joe to go. No cabinet position, no Supreme Court position, no nothing. He’ll be stuck in the Senate, and if he keeps saying stuff like this the Democrats might just grow enough of a spine to move Joe back to the extreme backbench, where he can live out the remainder of his political life in the ignominy that he deserves.
[From Last Democrat Standing]
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