Oh Fer Cryin' Out Loud

This is not a good way to begin a Sunday morning. Newsweek:

Joe Lieberman awoke last Wednesday with few prospects and no party. He'd lost the Democratic primary for his own Senate seat to challenger Ned Lamont and the army of "Netroots" Internet activists who'd hammered Lieberman's stubborn defense of the Iraq war. Even some of his friends thought his announced independent candidacy would be a sad and solitary quest.

But then came Thursday, with chilling news of a terror plot in Great Britain, and suddenly it was clear that Lieberman would not go gently. "If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do," he warned a campaign crowd, "get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes." Hawkish Joe was back: early polls showed him leading Lamont in the general election.

Jesus Fucking Christ.

But Karl Rove and the Republicans now see a new opportunity in "Lamontism"—the idea that liberal Democrats will risk failure in Iraq to score points with a public grown weary of war. (Lamont favors withdrawal of the troops from Iraq but redeployment elsewhere in the Middle East.)

Jesus Fucking Christ.

National Democrats say they won't be distracted by Connecticut. Still, as fall approaches, the Democrats are staking their hopes on their ability to talk critically about foreign policy without being labeled "antiwar"—a challenge that's vexed them in every campaign since George McGovern's 1972 presidential bid.

Jesus Fucking Christ.

The mainstream news-media is liberal.

Riiiiight.


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