Lamont's Victory & Lieberman's Insult to Democracy & the Democratic Party

[Horse with no Name]

Most excellent!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/lamonts-victory-lieber_b_26829.html

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At the end of every gut-wrenching horror movie, when the hero seems finally to have vanquished the enemy, there is always that last moment where the enemy, lying lifeless on the floor, finds a last gasp to fire off one final round, usually dealing a fatal blow to one of the good guys.
In the incredible story that concluded tonight in Connecticut, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Ned Lamont was the successful hero, representing the hopes and dreams or ordinary citizens by mounting a truly grassroots campaign against Joe Lieberman's massive warchest of corporate cash and universal support from Washington, D.C.'s cabal of lobbyists, pundits and insiders. Yet, in his last coughing gasps, Lieberman is now saying he will, in fact, fire off that last spiteful round - right into the gut of the Democratic Party.

That's right - Lieberman is announcing he will move forward with plans to abuse loopholes in Connecticut's election laws, ignore Democratic Party voters who voted in our democratic process for change, and mount a Lieberman for Lieberman Independent bid. This, from the guy who went on television after the 2004 presidential race (which was the closer than the Connecticut primary) to declare that "there's no prizes for second place in American politics." Yes, you read that right - the Senator who says there's "no prizes for second place" and who has in the final days of Democratic primary campaigning been running around claiming that he gets the message and realizes he no longer should enable George W. Bush's right-wing agenda now is saying that he will try to rely on hard-core Republican voters and moneymen in a general election contest in a desperate attempt to hold onto power.

[Selatius]

1. Lieberman will have to be beaten again in the horror sequel

Let's hope this horror movie series won't become a trilogy.

[Kagemusha]

2. No chance Lieb will come up short on signatures today, right?

They wouldn't mess up like that, would they? I mean, not having enough verified signatures for the independent run.

Because I just remembered that the 9th of August is the deadline for that.

[Ediacara]

5. Well they did forget to pay their website hosting bill

and blamed it on hackers from Lamont's campaign...

[no_hypocrisy]

3. What makes Joe contemptible and pathetic is the fact that he's gone to

"Plan B" of going independent from the democratic party that rejected him last night. If Joe had from the get-go had renounced the democratic party and had registered as an Independent (and thus deferred running in the democratic primary), then I don't think his integrity would be questioned. He wouldn't have held himself out as representing the aggregate position of the democratic party, which he wasn't. He still would have been challenged for his support of the war, for not holding a filibuster for extreme Supremes, for advocating Terry Schiavo be kept alive indefinitely, for literally and figuratively kissing *, etc. But at least his courage to stand for his convictions would not have been under fire. He is a modern-day Greek tragedy.

[Horse with no Name]

4. That is it in a nutshell.

Thank you.