Shots In The Dark
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
  More on the New Republic
A relative points out the greatest example of The New Republic's editorial failure in recent memory: Its dogged support of Joe Lieberman against Ned Lamont in the 2006 Connecticut Senate election.

As expected, Lieberman is acting like a spoiled, petulant brat in the Senate, continually threatening to take his ball and go home. He is an embarrassment to my home state and to his once credible reputation.

The New Republic's failure to realize that Lieberman is a politician whose time has gone typifies the kind of editorial idiocy that has led the magazine to cut its frequency of publication in half. They wonder why their circulation is slipping....
  8:44 AM  
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When politicians stand firm on something one agrees with, it is called being principled. When politicians stand firm on something one disagrees with, it is called "acting like a spoiled, petulant brat in the Senate, continually threatening to take his ball and go home."
# posted by Anonymous : February 27, 2024 12:29 PM
 
Although in not every case has a politician one disagrees with actually floated trial balloons about switching caucuses for the sake of just ONE issue. If the backyard 'game' is intraparty debate, then leaving the caucus can be fairly described as 'taking one's ball and going home.'

Notably, Lieberman is also WAY out of step with his own party, the Connecticut for Lieberman party, which is chaired by a Mr. Orman, who is extremely opposed to the war and to Bush's foreign policy. Mr. Orman is the party's only member.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_for_Lieberman

Standing Eagle
# posted by Anonymous : February 27, 2024 4:05 PM
 
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