June 18, 2008

The Zell Millerization of another insufferable quisling, Joe Lieberman

Obsequious, rethug-munching vichycrat hopefully has sealed his own doom come November.

There's hardly any sense in which Lieberman is an independent figure. He's become a cog in the Republican message machine. He may be independent from liberal bloggers, but the conservative equivalent -- partisan shouters like Sean Hannity -- are his treasured pals. Lieberman even continues to embrace lunatic preacher John Hagee -- whose many daft ideas include his belief that the Holocaust fulfilled God's will -- even after John McCain repudiated him.

Lieberman explains that he calls himself an "independent Democrat" because the Democratic Party's foreign policy ideals "exist in me today independent of the current Democratic Party, which has rejected them." This is a wildly egocentric interpretation.

Democrats started questioning the war because the war was going badly, while Lieberman remained -- to borrow a phrase -- in a spider hole of denial.

And up the manly rectum of his beloved war preznit. Nummies.

-- Jonathan Chait.

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