|
Edited on Mon May-15-06 01:04 PM by Jack Rabbit
It fits Lieberman, but I'm not sure it fits Biden.
Lieberman is a hard core supporter of the Iraq invasion. He may as well be a Republican Undersecretary of Defense when he talks about issues arising over Iraq. As far as he is concerned, we're better off since we overthrew Saddam, we are making progress, it's all good and well. And no amount of evidence to the contrary will get him to change his mind.
He's as much an idiot as Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. Assuming he survives his primary challenge, were I on the editorial board of a newspaper or magazine making endorsements in the November election, I would vote for "no recommendation" in the Connecticut Senate contest. Privately, I would hold my nose and vote for Lieberman, but only because he would vote with the Democrats on the continuing resolution in January; otherwise, he seems useless at best and treacherous at worst.
Biden, on the other hand, appears to me to be making awkward attempts at triangulating. He seems to be under the delusion that the Bush regime is politics as usual. He is willing to give deference to a regime that seized power after losing an election and one that clearly lied its way into the war against Iraq. That leaves very little middle ground for that kind of maneuvering.
Biden is becoming something of a James Buchanan Democrat in my view. In the final weeks of his presidency, Buchanan kept trying to maneuver around the issues of slavery and secession even as Southern states began seceding; his triangulating was finally reduced to a position of Southern states had no right to secede and the federal government had no right to stop them. Likewise, it is obvious that the Bush regime has not fought an honest war on terrorists, has used the September 11 attacks as a pretext to invade Iraq without cause or even a good plan and to disregard international treaties to which the US is party and even to disregard the Bill of Rights.
There isn't a lot of middle ground any more. The issue is no loner Iraq. It's impeachment. Where does Biden stand? Where does Lieberman stand? It's time to stop making excuses for the Bush regime and take up the issue of wheter its behavior constitutes high crimes and misdemeanors.
|