The Man And The Mission

The Man: Ned Lamont

The Mission: To defeat Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary election

Of course, a contest between Lamont would be more of a “horse race” with a Repug challenger instead of a Democratic incumbent, but when you’re talking about Joe Lieberman, you’re basically talking about a Repug anyway. This has been demonstrated on many occasions, most recently during his cowardly “no” vote on the Alito filibuster followed by a “no” vote on Alito’s confirmation (if he were true to his commitments, whatever they are, he would have voted “yes” to confirm, but he decided to hide behind his “no” after the filibuster failed and it was certain Alito would be confirmed anyway).

I am thankful to commenter Aldon Hynes for setting me straight on Ned Lamont yesterday. I have set up a link to the Ned Lamont petition in the right column of this site, and I intend to add my name also shortly.

Update 2/2: Keep it up, Joe! You're doing great. Keep giving us the ammunition (hat tip to Atrios - Kos is on this also).