Democrats Unlease Their Venom on an Extraordinary Joe

Democrats lost a great deal of credibility from 2000 through 2008 by demonizing George W. Bush and reducing the political discourse in this country to something you'd hear in a bar fight. 


Republicans when debating policy tend to argue from facts. Democrats over the last decade, in absence of compelling evidence to support their positions, have tended to argue from emotion. Thus, every Republican president of my time has been  attacked by Democrats for some alleged personal flaw that has nothing to do with the underlying logic of their policies. Eisenhower? Inarticulate. Nixon? A crook. Ford? Stupid. Reagan? Senile. And stupid. George H.W. Bush? Out of touch. George W. Bush? Just plain stupid.


So in the absence of any Republican of star power right now except Sarah Palin (Viewed by the left as both not a real woman and a bimbo at the same time. Did we mention stupid?) to vilify, Democrats have turned their guns on one of their own--Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman.


Sen. Lieberman's sin is being too independent. Let the record reflect that it was the Democrats themselves who made him an independent by pouring their salon money into the campaign of his primary opponent in 2006, Ned Lamont. (In keeping with their myth of being the party of the people, Mr. Lamont made his fortune the old fashioned way--he inherited from a father who was a partner in   J.P. Morgan and Co. Along the way to getting trounced by Sen. Lieberman in the general election, this man of the people had stops at exclusive prep school Phillips Exeter,  as well as Harvard and Yale.)


So, the Democrat swells who created Joe Lieberman, the independent, now vilify him for being, well, independent. Which brings us to healthcare. Jonathan Chait, writing in the New Republic , says that "Lieberman isn't actually all that smart...there's little evidence that he's a sharp or clear thinker, and certainly no evidence that he knows or cares about the details of health care reform. . . ." Isn't all that smart? Mr. Chait obviously has him confused with a Republican.


He goes on in his article amazingly to suggest that because Sen. Lieberman is a Jew, he benefits from reverse discrimination since the only reason most people probably think the senator is smart because they assume all Jews are smart. Way to go, Jon. Any opinion on Joe's athletic ability?


MoveOn.org , the ultra-leftist racket, is using the anti-Lieberman campaign as a fundraiser for themselves: "Joe Lieberman is single-handedly gutting health care reform. And it's time someone held him accountable. So we're going to make sure every voter in Connecticut knows what he's doing. And then, when he comes up for re-election, we'll make sure we send him home for good. Can you chip in to make Joe pay?" Leave it to a bunch of socialists to figure out how to make money out of the healthcare debate. Time for moveon.org to move on for good.


House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer blames lack of action on the Senate healthcare bill on Sen. Lieberman rather than the bill's many flaws. He shifts the blame for the Senate's ineptitude at failing to pass a bill  to the "psychology of one," meaning Sen Lieberman. If the psychology of one is really the reason the bill continues to be stuck in neutral, then that one is Rep. Hoyer's counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). 


And Rep. Rosa DeLauro  (D-CT) tells POLITICO that "No individual should hold health care hostage, including Joe Lieberman, and I'll say it flat out, I think he ought to be recalled."


James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal reminds Rep. DeLauro that there is no provision for recalling members of Congress. Oops. Not a bright thing to say. Maybe she's a Republican.


This campaign of belittling its opponents smacks of the elitist institution that the Democrat Party has become. Well oiled and well funded by the Ned Lamonts and George Soroses of the world, it tries to accomplish its goals by gutter sniping rather than through reasoned discourse. In doing so, it is attacking a man, Joe Lieberman, more principled than any of them could ever hope to be. 


Just thought you might like to know.