Letters to the Editor
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The Era of Ned
Nedocracy! It will be like when the soldiers from the Planet of the Apes got blown up by the atombomb worshipping subway dwellers.
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"A Lamont victory would deal a hard blow to the power of incumbency,"
not to mention that it would make Stephen Colbert extremely happy!
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Good riddance
The problem with Joe isn't that he's a bad democrat or a good republican. It's that he's a neo-con within the democrat ranks. Bad enough these sociopaths have taken over the republican party. It's time to root them out and send them packing back to their ivory towers, where the Kristol family, David Frum and Richard Perle can sit around playing Risk all day and not take part in real world activities where their influence has been anything but positive.
Sorry Joe, you just got mixed up with the wrong crowd.
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Show 'em Connecticut!
It's about time. Lieberman has sounded like a Republican on this reckless war. Anyone who voted on Oct. 11, 2002 to give our idiot president a blank check to invade Iraq should not be re-elected. There were 28 or so senators who did NOT vote to allow Bush to invade Iraq and those people should returned to the Senate. The rest, including Clinton and Schumer, should not be re-elected. If politicians would pay more attention to the people they represent, they would not have voted to allow Bush to invade.
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I wish I could vote against Bill Nelson
...for being a waffling, pandering, voting to give George his designer war, having it both ways kind of sentaor. But his opposition is Cruella de Ville, and likely will be in November despite the last-minute Republicans who jumped into this race when they realized their candidate is a nutcase. The only consolation is that se's doing a very good job of spontaneously combusting.
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Ulimate Conservatism
The most basic brand of conservatism is conserving the staus quo and keeping things the way they are. In this sense, not only are all politicians now conservative, but so are the entrenched Beltway/NY City pundit class. The MSM have an ingrained sense of their dependence on preserving the staus quo, and have lost any willingness to pursue stories that might ultimately lead to the kinds of change that would upset their gravy train. As I follow all the horror stories of war, corruption, incompetence, acquisition of monarchic powers and on and on, I find myself wondering where the media are who are supposed to shout these threats to our way of life from the rooftops. When congress are able to count on reelection at rates comparable to, as you say, poliburo members, we've reached a point where our system of lobbyist-funded elections allows corporate control of govt becomes absolute. We can no longer count on the inherent factionalism built into The Constitution by the founders to protect us from someone out to convert our democracy into a plutocracy, which if you pay attention to who benefits from all the legislation coming out of congress, we now effectively have.
I like to think a Lamont win might crack that structure, but I have a feeling the media will rally 'round the system and villify Lamont to discourage any such future adventurism on the part of upstarts, or some such self-preservation maneuver.
Keep plugging away at it just the same. You've certainly established a beachhead. Hold it long enough and we just might be able to storm the ramparts yet.
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The reason the MSM loves a long-standing incumbent
Ever since the 1970's, when the government reacted to the Post's aggressive Watergate reporting by changing their whistleblower laws (amongst other things), reporters who wish to have access have increasingly been required to form personal relationships with those in power. A big part of why those MSM reporters want Lieberman to win is that he represents 18 years of effort on their part to gain access to him. Those reporters who have been most successful in acquiring this access are those who have risen to the "top" of their chosen profession (much like pond scum really). The casualty of this relationship is the death of the notion of speaking truth to power. After all, if you offend Joe by telling him that his new best buddies' pet war is not only morally wrong, but strategically suicidal, he might not invite you around next time he has a cocktail party, and he might just hang up next time you call him asking for an exclusive interview.
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I find this trend disturbing
I thoroughly enjoy your in-house blogs, even when they go off the deep end (maybe especially then). However, I am not paying to read the work of guest bloggers, and I am concerned that the practice of having them fill in is becoming too routine. I'm sure people need vacations, and I'm all for them taking them, but it's really OK to close up shop for a few days, especially on War Room. Let the other chickens guard their own bloghouses.
Thank you again from a long-time subscriber!
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Lamont Doing Better Than It Looks
As all polling insiders know, Lamont being up 51-45 against a well known incumbent like Lieberman means he's really up something like 54-46.
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Exactly Sysiphus
The MSM players all have a sense of where their bread is buttered. Not only theirs personally, but the fact that they all work for organizations built on relationships between their bosses and the powers-that-be. It's easy to see where a wink and a nudge is all that is required to let anyone new to the system know that some stories are just not to be pursued. It's not the kind of conspiracy that requires everyone to sit down and make sure they're all on the same page--it's just something that all journalist now practice as they work to get their own private McMansion on Nantucket Island with Chris Matthews and the other millionaire pundits.
The old school journalists roll in their graves as all the network news depts follow FOX and Rupert Murdoch down the dollar lined path to connections that provide security in the New Republican One-party Govt. And when young journalist start their careers, they dream of having a window office and a face that is recognized, regardless of what that requires.
The Press as addressed by the Constitution, that vital cog in the properly functioning Constitutional Democracy, is at least temporarily non-existent. Sure we still have places to go to get The Facts, but as long as the vast majority of Americans still look to popular corporate-owned infotainment news with a distinctive right-wing agenda behind it, The Press is a defacto propaganda arm of our corporate-owned govt.
Only when enough of us realize that we can only get The Facts from sources outside the corporate monopoly, and enough of us avail ourselves of said sources to matter in elections, will we see a reinstated Press that funstions as the Costitution requires for ahealthy democracy.