The Lieberman signpost

I hope today's defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman points to a national voters' surge against any more support of The Bush War by anybody, period.

There is something very sad about the Lieberman story. Here is a guy who has been voting very progressively (I think the most recent count gives him an 80% score) for all of 18 years. But then he hugs the Conquistador In Chief--and I'm not referring to last year's much-published hug-or-kiss-or whatever-the-hell-that-was. Lieberman's stubborn embrace of the Bushite Iraq disaster is simply its own disaster. (Yes, I know he has differed over operational stuff, but that's a hiccup in the midst of an embrace.)

Tonight Lieberman condemned all the "partisan bickering" and confirmed that he would now run for Senator as an independent. But if standing up against a global outrage like this war is simply bickering, we all might as well shut the door on reality and go watch the Fox channel.

Hooray for today's electoral defeat. May it be the first of many like it.