Every day Lieberman has any role in the Senate backed by Democrats demonstrates to the country that Democrats cannot get things done.
Average people are not as stupid as the political elites seem to believe. They know what's happening. And it makes Democrats look weak and ineffective.
They saw an unpopular Bush administration repeatedly get what they wanted, even though it was not just unpopular but what they wanted was repeatedly wrong - nay, disastrous. But achieving stuff so bad shows they could get things done.
Democrats cannot... and Joe F*ck*ng Lieberman is a prime example.
I don't even know that I have the energy to write a diary. I have become increasingly disillusioned with the Democratic party as the year has progressed. The Obama Kumbayah with the Republicans has made him look weak, ineffective and hasn't elicited any real benefits.
Starting healthcare negotiations from the position the Republicans held during the Clinton years just necessarily moved the debate to the right leading to this mess of a bill which will not achieve the kinds of benefits that the country is expecting, and will come with some strings that the country will blame the Democrats for... makes Democrats look weak and ineffective.
Bailing out banks that charge ordinary people like me $350 dollars in fees when my wife's paycheck went in a day late and a dozen small $1-5 transactions post on that gap day - while securing no practical concessions from banks about their dealings with consumers, or on pay rises, or on lobbying, or on wild dangerous transactions, or on mortgages... makes Democrats look weak and ineffective.
Having a top general (and don't tell me it's not McChrystal leaking) actively lobbying against the President's position makes us look weak and ineffective. Of course that's based on a rod we made for our own back by Democratic elected representatives repeatedly buying the meme that the surge worked when it was a bogus strategy that never worked and could never work, it was just a temporary calm caused by bribery. "well a surge worked in Iraq let's do it in Afghanistan" ... plus it means Obama will get blamed for the break down in Iraq as the surge unwinds.
Weak and ineffective.
And when you have Joe Lieberman getting up and jumping on the attack-wagon about the trials in New York. It makes Democrats look weak and ineffective.
This country still feels the wound of 9/11. The emasculation of an attack on the "homeland". People feel scared and insecure as the economic system of the second half of the twentieth century unwinds, as jobs are lost, as the future looks bleak or frightening to so many. What people want least of all... less than politicians who hold different positions to them... less even than politicians that don't "share my values"... is leadership in the country that appears weak.
Joe f*ck*ng Lieberman. GFY