If Joe Lieberman leaves the Senate, it will mean that moderation in the Democratic Party … will be alive and well.
Michael Tomasky
Michael Tomasky is the American editor-at-large of the Guardian (UK). He was executive editor of the Prospect from 2003 to 2006.
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Joe, KO’d
Of course Joe Lieberman could still win the Democratic primary next Tuesday. There’s an X factor in every election, and in this one, with a three-term incumbent, it’s this: A certain percentage of voters will be thinking “challenger” most of the week, but when the moment of truth arrives — when they […]
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HERE�S ONE DIFFERENCE….
HERE�S ONE DIFFERENCE. I have quite a few thoughts about Noemie Emery�s piece in the current Weekly Standard arguing that Bush is Truman, today�s neocons are the heirs of HST, and so on. But let me start with this side note. I remember reading, either in Dean Acheson�s memoir or in James Chace�s biography of […]
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MORE FOR CHUCK…
MORE FOR CHUCK TO CHEW ON. Earlier this week, I noted in a post that Chuck Schumer had benefited from Democratic post-primary unity in New York in 1998 when his defeated opponents rallied to his side, and he went on to beat Al D�Amato. The idea is that now, as head of the DSCC, Schumer […]
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MORE ON NUTMEGGERS.
MORE ON NUTMEGGERS. Garance reminds me of something that will be a very important factor if Lamont wins the primary. If that happens, certain MSM liberal and centrist pundits will start writing immediately about how the Democrats have lost their soul, gone radical, cashiered the last good man (I know, but they will). That will […]
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Keller Must Stay
Last December, I wrote a column on this site called “Keller Must Go,” arguing that New York Times executive editor Bill Keller had demonstrated a singular lack of courage in holding the famous James Risen-Eric Lichtblau NSA spying story for nearly a year before running it. I acknowledged at the time that there may have […]
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THAT WAS THEN….
THAT WAS THEN. So I woke up in the middle of the night and flicked on TCM. And there was The Shoes of the Fisherman, the 1968 Michael Anderson-lensed (as they say in Variety) adaptation of the famous Morris West novel about the ascension of the first Eastern European Pope. I was transfixed. I remember […]
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DICK MORRIS IS…
DICK MORRIS IS RIGHT!! He has this column in The Hill saying that Lieberman should forego the Democratic primary entirely and just run as an Independent, and that if he did so, he would win �overwhelmingly.� Alas, I�m afraid that I suspect this is entirely correct. Consider: First, voter enrollment in Connecticut looks like this […]
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GUTSY. Note that…
GUTSY. Note that on the flag-burning amendment, Robert Byrd voted against. Even though he�s from red West Virginia. Even though Jay Rockefeller voted yea. Even though he�s involved in a potentially tough reelection campaign against a simian blowhard from my hometown named John Raese who will demagogue this to death. Even though virtually every other […]
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OCCAM�S RAZOR EXPLANATION….
OCCAM�S RAZOR EXPLANATION. I think, Ezra, it�s all simpler than that. They invaded Iraq. They didn�t expect a problem. They got a problem. Now they want out. But they want out provided two conditions are met in the process: 1. They can do it in such a way to make the Democrats look weak; 2. […]
