When a politician's own self interests gets bigger than his party and constituents, he's dead ~ though not yet buried : Allen L Roland on Joseph Lieberman
After his phone call Wednesday with Karl Rove ~ Joe Lieberman stayed the course with the Republican twin attack line of denial of mistakes and condemn the critics.
You can now begin to see beneath this smokescreen of hubris the Republican screen play for the mid term elections ~ the mob at the gates, which will do us in, is not just the terrorists ( which the Cheney/Bush administration's actions have inspired ) but the radical extremists of both parties who hate America and are endangering our National Security with their dissent ( especially the blogosphere ~ which includes myself ).
Joe Lieberman is now on political deathwatch ( a dead man walking ) for his own self interests have become more important than his party and constituents and his final execution will be when the Cheney/Bush crowd find him no longer useful and cut him loose ~ just like they did with Colin Powell.
Paul Krugman, N.Y.Times, confirms that Lieberman may well be beyond redemption.
Excerpt: " Now, it takes a really vivid imagination to see Mr.Lieberman's rejection as the work of extremists. I know that some commentators believe that anyone who thinks the Iraq war was a mistake is a flag-burning hippie who hates America. But if that's true, about 60 percent of Americans hate America. The reality is that Ned Lamont and those who voted for him are, as The New York Times editorial page put it, "irate moderates," whose views are in accord with those of most Americans and the vast majority of Democrats."
After Ned Lamont's victory in Connecticut, I saw a number of commentaries describing Joe Lieberman not just as a "centrist" - a word that has come to mean "someone who makes excuses for the Bush administration" - but as "sensible." But on what planet would Mr. Lieberman be considered sensible?
Take a look at Thomas Ricks's "Fiasco," the best account yet of how the U.S. occupation of Iraq was mismanaged. The prime villain in that book is Donald Rumsfeld, whose delusional thinking and penchant for power games undermined whatever chances for success the United States might have had.
Then read Mr.Lieberman's May 2004 op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal, "Let Us Have Faith," in which he urged Mr.Rumsfeld not to resign over the Abu Ghraib scandal, because his removal "would delight foreign and domestic opponents of America's presence in Iraq."
And that's just one example of Mr. Lieberman's bad judgment. He has been wrong at every step of the march into the Iraq quagmire ~ all the while accusing anyone who disagreed with him of endangering national security. Again, on what planet would Mr. Lieberman be considered "sensible"? But I know the answer: on Planet Beltway.
Many of those lamenting Mr. Lieberman's defeat claim that they fear a takeover of our political parties by extremists. But if political polarization were really their main concern, they'd be as exercised about the primary challenge from the right facing Lincoln Chafee as they are about Mr. Lieberman's woes.
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on Conscious talk radio www.conscioustalk.net
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