This is surprising why?

Posted at August 28, 2006 5:08 PM in response to Democrat Lantos Blocks Lebanon Aid

No.

Posted at August 25, 2006 9:38 AM in response to Republican Chutzpah on Iran

I don't have any surprise at Josh's Lieberphilia, and I don't understand others' surprise.

That said, Okie, I really can't see the point of your comments. Josh raised a question about discussions on other blogs and folks at those other blogs responded. That's not a purge, that's engagement; indeed, it's exactly what Josh might have expected to have happen if the post was to be taken seriously. If you look at either quotation that you post they each include praise of JM.

My problem with your posts is that they use histrionic language unnecessarily to create the illusion of an intolerant popular front. I agree with MJ Rosenberg that the tactic is vaguely Stalinist. It's certainly not helpful.

Posted at August 21, 2006 9:28 PM in response to The Lieberman Lamont Debate

Ahhh, yes, the old "not a dime's worth of difference" argument!

Posted at August 21, 2006 9:14 PM in response to The Lieberman Lamont Debate

That's an hilarious quotation.

There's no strategy at all, only a goal. It's like saying, "Our strategy for beating the Lakers is to score more points than them." As for the "tactic," staying's maybe a start, but how about doing.

Not that our polite press will ask follow-ups.

Posted at August 21, 2006 10:21 AM in response to The Lieberman Lamont Debate

I'll say that there are two questions inside the question, "How important is the L/L race":

1) How important is it who wins? To that I say that 6 more years of Joe is better than other options I could imagine (a Santorum clone, for instance), provided his snit doesn't lead to further vengefulness after the election.

2) How important is it to fully and convincingly defeat Lieberman's message about the Democratic Party. That issue is national in scope, especially when he takes his bs to the national talk shows, and he will every chance he gets.

My greatest fear is what Lieberman's campaign will do to the party, not that he'll beat Lamont. That's HUGE.

Posted at August 20, 2006 4:47 PM in response to The Lieberman Lamont Debate

Completely agree with you, Aj.

Let's note, too, that the argument Josh is making, the one that you and I don't see as describing what's really happening, is the version of the facts that Lieberman and Rove are trying to sell.

Apparently it's working. :(

Posted at August 20, 2006 4:39 PM in response to The Lieberman Lamont Debate

Part of the equation is how many of those democrats andDem-leaning independents follow Lieberman, lemming-like, to the other column. 'd expect those GOP candidates to do everything they can to align themselves w/ Lieberman (what choice do they haqve?) and Lieberman to join them in attacking the Sharpton-Waters-Lackson-Sheehan-Antisemite Democratic party.

Posted at August 18, 2006 4:24 PM in response to Why Bush Needs Lieberman

Or he could run that advertisement in which Joe Lieberman accuses him of voting like the Republicans.

Posted at August 15, 2006 2:36 PM in response to J. Lieb.: No Sense of Decency

I don't know if any of you saw this item, but at the same time that Israel goes it "alone" (with obvious US support) and the US still fights its unprovoked war in Iaq, The US Ambassador to Turkey warned the Turkish government against pursuing PKK across the border into Iraq because a nation's military should never cross borders without a broad international consensus.

He said it with a straight face, too.

Posted at July 22, 2006 11:35 PM in response to Lebanon--The Rut Becomes A Grave