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Ned Lamont is challenging Joe Lieberman for his senate seat.
I think it’s entertaining that
this article characterizes Ned Lamont’s support as coming from “anti-war activists.” They’re right in part; no anti-war activist with a grain of smarts is going to throw financial support behind Tha Lieb. But Lieberman has consistantly voted against and acted against [...]
One question that’s bugged us about the President’s domestic surveilence program is this: if the law was insufficient for their needs, why not ask Congress for a change in the law?
That question has not been answered, but it has been made _obsolete_. The new question is: if the law was insufficient, why did they “oppose legislation [...]
Michael Bérubé uses this latest example of governmental intrusion to reiterate that conservatism ain’t what it used to be:
bq. People who support a clandestine program of warrantless domestic spying are not “conservatives� or “libertarians.� Neither are people who support the creation of a worldwide archipelago of secret torture sites. Neither are people who support the usurpation [...]
Do you remember the personal responsibility thing? You know, “Oh, oh! People don’t take personal responsibility! ‘I had a bad childhood, so I should be able to kill people’,” etc. etc. I seem to remember a time when the Grand Old Party considered “blaming society” the worst of liberal offenses[1].
All that seems to have gone [...]
So the Senate has reached a compromise on Bill Frist’s “Nuclear” option which clears the way for three of Bush’s blocked nominees and preserves the filibuster for use against a potential Supreme Court nominee. I haven’t looked at _anyone else’s blogs_ yet about this issue, and while I’m relieved that debate in the Senate is [...]