Well, I say that the Democratic Party changed. The Democratic Party today was not the party it was in 2000. It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was strong internationalists, strong on defense, pro-trade, pro-reform in our domestic government. It’s been effectively taken over by a small group on the left of the party [...]
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Iraq Surrender Bill — Shame on Gordon Smith
Republican Senator Gordon Smith of Oregon joins with nearly every voting Democrat senator (Oops! Make that every; Joe Lieberman is an Independent) in voting to surrender. Let’s hope the President makes good on his many promises to veto it.
Now, how about a funding bill without a date certain for surrender and a pile of [...]
Lieberman leaving the Democratic Party?
Lieberman says leaving the Democratic Party is a “very remote possibility.” But even that slight ambiguity — and all his cross-aisle flirtation — has proved more than enough to position Lieberman as the Senate’s one-man tipping point. (Source)
And the issue that could tip Lieberman to the Republican side? According to The Politico: defunding the [...]
Iraq: Dean v. Lieberman
Dean: The “idea that we’re going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong.”
Lieberman: “What a colossal mistake it would be for America’s bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will and in the famous phrase, to seize defeat from the jaws of the [...]
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