More than 80 percent (81 percent) of Democrats now say they disapprove of the job Lieberman is doing with only 14 percent approving. Among Republicans, 48 percent disapprove of the senator with just 39 approving. And among independents, 61 percent disapprove of Lieberman’s antics with just 32 percent approving.
“It all adds up to a 25% approval rating with 67% of his constituents giving him bad marks,” the study concludes.
According to Public Policy Polling, only 19% of all Connecticut voters like Lieberman’s desperate and pathetic maneuvering on the health care issue.
This will be very interesting. What Lieberman does in politics has always ultimately been determined by his most craven impulses: ambition, the lust for attention and power, a needy desire to be well thought-of on the home front. These numbers are going to freak him out.
Good! Maybe he’ll announce his retirement along with Chris Dodd. Either that, or start playing some sort of constructive role in public life for a change.
A Japanese whaling ship rammed a protest boat led by Paul Watson, head of the anti-whaling organization Sea Shepherd.
Opinion is divided on whether Sea Shepherd had it coming or whether the Japanese were all-too-happy to try to sink the boat. (Note in the video how they use the fire hose even after ramming the boat. To rinse off the blood?)
Both options could be simultaneously true, of course.
Paul Watson reminds me of a modern-day John Brown. (Remember, this blogger thinks that, as a general matter, it’s worse to kill a whale than a human—there are fewer of them, and they’re better for the planet than we are. Of course, I’d prefer no killing of either.)
I have mixed feelings about his tactics, but it’s not like the civilized nations of the world are doing much to stop whaling.
The video below, by the way, is being disseminated by Japan’s “Institute for Cetacean Research,” a name which would be funny if it weren’t so cynical and disgusting.
The Connecticut Democrat throws in the towel, the TImes reports. (After six terms and a financial scandal, probably a good idea.)
His move opens the way for the state’s highly popular attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, to run. Democrats and Republicans said he would be a much stronger candidate in what is a Democratic state.
Connecticut’s not entirely a Democratic state, by the way. It’s had a Republican governor for a decade or so, as well as the occasional GOP congressman. Sigh—the state of journalism.
Will Joe Lieberman be next? Nah. He’s sitting back, relieved that Blumenthal won’t be running against him, dreaming of power.
