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To: epicure who wrote (788)	8/10/2006 10:04:53 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1695

On the topic of Joe Lieberman, Rahul Mahajan nailed it. The political establishment is panicking at the thought of democracy taking hold. <<< ... On CSPAN, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin said that the primary posed the question, “Can a Democrat who disagrees with his party’s position – by and large – on the war prevail in a closely fought primary? His take: “I hope that Joe does prevail. … If … not, the question will be asked for other races down the road, what impact does your position on the war have?” Now, Durbin is not the smug, preening mandarin that Lieberman is. By Democratic senatorial standards, he’s pretty decent. And yet his comment – unthinkingly, to be sure – points up not only the stunningly undemocratic attitudes of American politicians but also the stunningly undemocratic nature of our polity. The groundswell of opposition to Lieberman derives from his stance on the Iraq war. He’s gone the despicable Democratic leadership one better and appointed himself apologist for the Bush administration, warning Democrats that “we undermine Presidential credibility at our nation’s peril.” In other words, don’t criticize the administration. His defense of the occupation is even more surreal than the administration’s; in the Wall Street Journal last year, he wrote that the war was a matter of 27 million Iraqis versus “10,000 terrorists.” The threat to Lieberman may seem normal to you, the way politics works in a democracy, but Durbin knows better and so should you. Even though he doesn’t agree with Lieberman on the war, Durbin knows subjecting senators to accountability based on their positions is a much bigger issue ... >>> empirenotes.org Tom