Congratulations Ned Lamont

First, my congratulations to Ned Lamont.  The early stories of the Connecticut Senatorial primary all seem to read, "Lieberman loses announces that he will run as an independent" with a big picture of the loser and barely any mention of Ned Lamont.   After appealing to “party” in the waning stages of the primary campaign, somehow the soon to be former senator’s loyalty to his party appears to be very suspect.  To think that six years ago, Joe Lieberman came within a few chads of being Al Gore’s vice president.  
Now, he’d rather keep alive his hope of keeping his senate seat than to help the party that nominated him for national office win back the senate.   

While the anti-war blog world is celebrating Lamont’s victory as their victory as well, I need to caution that winning a Democratic primary 52-48 when opposition to the war among voters in general is running close to two to one is a very small step indeed.  Say what you want about a political neophyte defeating an incumbent senator in his own party’s primary, but to borrow a phrase from the administration, “Please don’t let any blog try to convince you that the anti-war movement has turned a political “corner.” “

There’s a lot of work to be done, but one of the first steps will be to now get Ned Lamont that senate seat especially if that paragon of sportsmanship and party solidarity Joe Lieberman insists on running as an independent.  


History suggests that in any war, atrocities on both sides are almost inevitable.  The most recent-more-detailed reports about the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the murder of her family by U.S. soldiers in Mahmudiya should serve as a reminder that the moral high ground is an elusive thing in wartime.  We need a congress that remembers that and does its job of protecting this country by restoring the notion of accountability through the balance of powers to our system.    

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