Last night I had a dream …
No, not that kind of dream, a nightmare, actually. I dreamt that Joe Lieberman announced his candidacy for the US Presidency, and instantly jumped to the top of the list of Democratic contenders. I further dreamed that only I, an out of work, disabled lawyer could stop him, because I had secret information that would destroy his candidacy, but no one would listen to me.
Thank god, upon waking, I realized that Joe Lieberman’s days as a Presidential contender are over, thanks to stuff like this (via Think Progress):
Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) used the foiled terror attempts in London to call for greater domestic spying here in the United States. Lieberman said, “I hope these terrorist attacks in London wake us up here in America to stop the petty partisan fighting going on about…electronic surveillance,” in apparent reference to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subpoenas for documents related to Bush’s NSA warrantless wiretapping program. […]
In the same interview, Lieberman said of the situation in Iraq, “The surge is working.” He refused to say whether he would back a withdrawal if Gen. Petraeus reports in September that progress is not being made.
Also, Lieberman reaffirmed his previous statements that Democratic candidates do not have “strong and muscular” approaches to foreign policy. Today, he said, “I would say that Democratic candidates, in the larger questions of American security, have been disappointing.”
Lieberman must be dreaming, too, if he thinks that a policy of more illegal wiretaps is going to fly with the American public. I’m not real fond of the field of Democrats so far, but none of them has come close to being as consistently wrong about Iraq, nor has any of them been as consistently an apologist for, and defender of, the Bush administration, as he has.
