Until now, I have been loathe to dip my toe into the murky waters of Connecticut’s impending Senate race. It’s not that I have any love for Lieberman. On the contrary, I think he is a poison that needs desperate cleansing from the Democratic roster. However, I just don’t know enough about Lamont to offer anything intelligent to the debate (other than the fact that he is beginning to look electable [1]).
However, the recent move [2] by Schumer to imply that the DSCC would continue to support Bush’s Demmie Bud as an independent [3] makes me a little ill. Tell me, what is the point of holding primaries if the Party is just going to choose the candidate anyway? Why not just go ahead and tell all the bourgeois subjects to simply eat cake [3] and shut up? For that matter, why not just go ahead and do away with the election altogether since there really doesn’t seem to be any value, in Schumer’s mind, for the voice of the people?
What's worse, to refer to the opposition (i.e. the will of the people) as terrorists [3] to simply to co-opt a GOP scare tactic in the most obsence fashion. What's next? Maybe Wal-Mart will call all K-Mart shoppers consumer terrorists?
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Links:
[1] http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/06/14/in_connecticut_lamont_closes_the_gap.html
[2] http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/06/14/dscc_would_support_indy_bid_by_lieberman.html
[3] http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ctlamont0613.artjun13,0,7963363.story?coll=hc-headlines-local
[4] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthehindsightfactor.com%2Fsubverting_the_democratic_process_in_ct&linkname=Subverting%20the%20democratic%20process%20in%20CT