Paul Bass, Hartford Courant, rips Lieberman a good one

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http://www.courant.com/news/local/northeast/hc-pbass0604.artjun04,0,7611693.column

Seasonal Memory Lapses

Medical researchers have identified a host of causes for amnesia, from encephalitis to traumatic brain injury.

I've discovered another cause: political campaigns.

Exhibit A: The current campaign in Connecticut for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination.

In the wake of challenger Ned Lamont's surprisingly strong showing at last month's Democratic convention, the race has begun to take shape. Both candidates are trying to define the race - and each other - early. Lamont seeks to cast incumbent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman as an out-of-touch apologist and crucial helper of President Bush's Iraq war and environmental, economic and health-care policies. Lieberman seeks to identify his opponent as an out-of-touch plutocrat. (Lamont, a tech entrepreneur, is worth between $90 million and $300 million.)

Meanwhile, in ads and public statements, Lieberman portrays himself as Regular Joe, a fighter for the little guy, in touch with blue-state Connecticut and mainstream Democrats on all issues except Iraq.

And somehow we - not just Lieberman - keep a straight face, as if he hadn't just spent 18 years helping Republicans hijack the Constitution and pick on little guy after little guy.

The Bush administration values Joe Lieberman because he has been a crucial ally in efforts to free Enron-style corporate crooks from regulation, transfer wealth to the wealthy, hound gays, trample on the rights of government critics and sacrifice the lives of thousands of Americans and Iraqis to dishonest, dangerous military adventurism.

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Thank Goddes the Mainstream Media is finally calling Lieberman's b.s. for what it is.

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1. Great column!

I had blocked out some of Joe's earlier transgressions. Now that the media is going our way, does anyone know what happened to those wonderfully well-informed DUers, mainly from out of state, who kept telling us how popular Joe is? I haven't seen them around much lately. I guess they must have moved on to posting condescending pronouncements about other topics they know nothing about.