THE PLANK DECEMBER 16, 2009
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Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz defends Joe Lieberman against the crazed liberal hord:
In leveraging his position as the Dems' potential 60th vote on health care, Lieberman is doing nothing different than Ben Nelson or Olympia Snowe -- the Senate's perpetually gridlocked system gives any member the power to blow up any contested measure. But the anger surrounding the independent iconoclast is truly stunning.
Well, no. That's the problem: Lieberman is doing something very different than other Senators. He's signaling his interest in a legislative compromise pending a CBO analysis, then denouncing it as too costly before the analysis can come out. He citing a measure he recently championed as now so intolerable that he'd blow up the whole bill rather than let it proceed, and then using a laughable rationale to explain his flip-flop. That's the whole problem: he's not acting like other moderate Senators at all.
5 comments
what the hell is a liberal hord? it should be horde. Besides, since when have liberals been a tribe or troop of Asian nomads? (which is the original meaning of the word)
- blackton
December 16, 2009 at 12:01pm
Blackie, you have to admit we do have a Big Yurt policy. (P.S. - Aarrgh! Spam filter delendem est!)
- adaglas
December 16, 2009 at 12:50pm
Heh heh. Yurt. That's a funny word.
- jhildner1
December 16, 2009 at 12:54pm
Hordes are people too.
- WandreyCer
December 16, 2009 at 2:59pm
If this thing goes the way I think it will, Democrats will owe Joe big-time for providing cover from the certain Republican charge in the next election that they used their majority to ram a radical left-wing monstrosity down America's throat.
- Robert Powell
December 17, 2009 at 10:09am