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The Financial Times, which I've started reading for its international coverage now that it's free and all, has a whole piece today on Joe Lieberman's continuing belligerent-guy-at-the-end-of-the-bar routine. I'd, of course, been aware of it for a while, but I was still taken aback by how he is finding new ways to out-neocon the necons and also just how transparently ridiculous his "I didn't leave my party, my party left me" routine is:
The 2008 Democratic candidates are beholden to a “hyper-partisan, politically paranoid” liberal base that could endanger the final nominee’s chances of winning next year’s presidential election, Joe Lieberman, the former vice-presidential Democratic candidate, said on Thursday.In his most outspoken attack on fellow Democrats since he was unsuccessfully challenged last year by Ned Lamont, a liberal Democrat, for his Senate seat in Connecticut, Mr Lieberman on Thursday said he may not vote for the Democratic presidential nominee next year. He argued that George W. Bush and the Republican presidential candidates remained truer than the Democratic party to its tradition of a “moral, internationalist, liberal and hawkish” foreign policy that was established by Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy.This would all be kinda amusing if it was written by Jamie Kirchick but since the man is a sitting United States Senator (and a deciding vote in the Senate at that) it's scary as hell. Also I thought this was pretty amusing:
“The Democratic party I grew up in was unafraid to make moral judgments about the world beyond our borders,” he said.Ah yes, because Americans today have so much trouble judging other people. That's what we need to do more of. I mean really, can an appearance with David Horowitz be far away? More seriously, this is yet another example of the twisted logic that Lieberman and people like Kirchick employ--the facile argument that your either with Norman Podhoretz or Noam Chomsky. --Sam Boyd
