If we want to know the problem with Washington Democrats and why we desperately need some major changes, we should look no further than the Connecticut Senate race.
In my opinion, Joe Lieberman has been a most treacherous SOB. He not only constantly breaks party ranks, but he also seems to take particular joy in echoing the Republican party line. At every turn he has tried to undermine Democrats and the Democratic party while currying the favor of the Republicans, by offering credibility to their warped ideas. This is a man who has spoken more harshly about Democrats than he has ever spoken about any Republican. Worse, he loves to do it on FOX NEWS.
We know the laundry list by heart -- the war, social security, affirmative action, the supreme court, Alito specifically, school vouchers, Terry Schiavo, faith-based funding, tort reform and on and on. All these are issues of special significance to Democrats and the Democratic party platform. Look for Joe, you'll find him with the enemy.
And yet, in spite of this treachery, this gross betrayal of trust, we are subjected to this parade of Democratic senators and pundits trekking around Connecticut to lend him their support. Clinton of all people, Boxer, Cleland, Obama, Dodd, Lautenberg, Lanny Davis, Biden (?) etc. How can these people support a man who has so actively worked to sabotage them and the things they believe in? More to the point, what does one have to do to a Washington Democrat to piss him/her off? Do they forgive everything? What would he have had to have done for one of them to say: Joe, you've gone too far?
This explains why they have taken so much BS from Bush, and why they are so reluctant to fight back. Nothing is sacred to them.