There's been a considerable effort here, designed to tell us how we're allowed to react to Reid's failed leadership in the Senate, and how we're allowed to react to Lieberman's full, bare assed mooning of the democractic party.
The reasoning goes something like this: you're allowed to be mad about it, but you're not allowed to be that mad about it. You're not allowed to question the wisdom of the party elders in public, and you're certainly not allowed to protest, yell, scream, or say angry things about it. Because, Gosh, that might feed into Repug sterotypes about us.
I call bullshit.
Saul Alinsky said
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict
We do not live in that vacuum, and we do not live in an abstract world.
We need our emotional energy, and I think it's absolutely vital to maintaining our momentum in 2012, when Lieberman has to run again. We need to be angry, and we need to stay angry, just like we stayed angry, and motivated, and focused, and committed from 2001 to 2008.
We need to reject our false friends( can any one think of a more false friend to democrats then Joe Lieberman?), and we need to find people who can actually be what they promise be. Reid promised to be a leader, and he's failed us. Lieberman promised to be a democrat, and he's failed us too.
It's time to fire both of them.
And while I could go on and on about why cis such an asshole, I'll just let the smug little bastard speak for himself: