Listen up, Connecticut

Maggie says:
I’ve been ranting about Lieberman for a week now, but it just keeps getting worse. Let’s count down his latest offenses:
1. Not only voting to confirm Condoleeza Rice as Secretary of State…
2. … but pleading with Democrats to do the same, lecturing that Rice “will serve in the national interest.”
3. Hugging Bush after the State of the Union
4. Letting Bush kiss him after their hug (If you haven't seen the footage yet, no, I'm not making this up.)
5. Voting to confirm Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General, one of only six Democrats to do so, and…
6. …delivering yet another rousing speech against his party’s values while doing it, calling prison treatment at Guantanamo “progressive” and “remarkably just.”

I’m not sure what happened to Lieberman. He’s never been progressive - always moderate at best - but I think that FCC nonsense a year ago provoked the zealot in him. Since then, he’s been taking pains to promote himself as the Dems’ conservative voice of wisdom. Certainly the primary forced him to set himself apart - his stump speeches about "radical Democrats" losing touch with Middle America were as backward as they were boring.

Whatever the reason, this is unacceptable. Even more mind-boggling is that we’re talking about a senator from Connecticut here – not exactly Republican territory, so I'm confident that the good residents of that state can elect someone to better serve the Democratic party. So listen up, Constitution State: find yourself a real progressive to kick Lieberman’s ass in the primary. There’s no reason we have to put up with this kind of voting record – and worse, the moral lectures that come with it – from one of our own. Strike three happened a long time ago.