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H/t to Jane Hamsher at FDL, this article by Chris Cillizza at WaPo (The Fix) says it all:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/11/the_lieberman_vote.html
Especially the prize quote:
Asked what it would mean if Lieberman kept his chairmanship, one Senate Democratic aide said bluntly: "The left has been foiled again. They can rant and rage but they still do not put the fear into folks to actually change their votes. Their influence would be in question."
The Left? Yuh know, I'm getting pretty damn tired of being called an extremist by the party that is supposed to represent the left-of-center in this country. I ranted, I raged, I peppered my senator with my views. I'm an extremist. Someone who needs to be defeated by the Democrats. Are they going to call me a Socialist, tell me I've been palling around with terrorists?
None of this is based on anything approaching evidence. The Democratic party is the ultimate martingale, believing always that the best thing to do is what it just did. Change? That's extremist. At least there is this change: The Democrats are now going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory after the election instead of before it.
