So what set off the volatile and desperate Joementum today? Like all reputable Democratic leaders, from Mark Warner, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy to Barack Obama, Barbara Boxer and Al Gore, Wes Clark endorsed Ned. Lieberman can only make up his mind about one thing: everyone is wrong and he's right. (In retrospect, a perfect tableau for Lieberman's sick, sick politics.) Now Lieberman has told the Journal Inquirer that General Clark is a partisan, name-calling Democrat. If you recall, when they were both running for president in the 2004 Democratic presidential primary, Lieberman turned a debate from fairly collegial to a knife-thrust towards Clark, challenging his loyalty to the Democratic Party. Today the latest victim of the Lieberman hate and smear messaging is General Wes Clark, an actual Democrat, one who has been all over America campaigning hard and convincingly for other real Democrats, like Jon Tester, Claire McCaskill, Harold Ford, Charlie Brown, Joe Sestak. He has completely thrown off his disguise and has come out as a full-fledged neocon Republican in all but word that would come after the election. I doubt there are any suckers left in Connecticut who think Lieberman has any intention of caucusing with the Democrats if he wins the election in November. Last week he was on a right wing website attacking Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and Chris Dodd. (He also tries to insinuate Ned is backed by terrorists, something that is patently absurd, especially in light of the revelations how the Bush-Lieberman policies in the Middle East turned the jihadist movement there from a minor annoyance to a gigantic actor on the international stage.)Īnyway, it turns out Ned is hardly the only one being smeared by Lieberman these days. Now that Connecticut's Democratic voters have rendered their decision of what they think of Lieberman's use of typically Rovian projection strategy, he has gone from calling Ned a Republican to calling him a dangerous left winger. He has no ground operation to get out the vote and all he can depend on is that a large Republican turn-out for Governor Jodi Rell and the 3 rubber stamp congresscritters he was campaigning against 6 months ago, Nancy Johnson, Rob Simmons and Chris Shays, will accrue to him as well.ĭuring the primary his infamous vicious campaign tactics manifested themselves through ceaseless bleating that Ned Lamont is a closet Republican. Lieberman has no real game plan to win in Connecticut except the Republican one: fear and smear. The Post story is basically the drama around that speech. The last straw for Powell was probably when he was ordered to read to the UN General Assembly the pile of manure put together by Irving "Scooter" Libby, Chalabi and Cheney to deceive the world. Powell never believed any of the ridiculous lies within the Regime about Saddam having had anything at all to do with 9/11.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda on New York and Washington, their attention turned sharply toward Iraq, and by the following summer it was clear that the administration was headed toward war with Saddam Hussein." Time and time again during the administration's bumpy first year, Powell had seen Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney intervene to nudge a willing Bush away from moderation and diplomacy, and toward a hard line on foreign policy issues from North Korea to the Middle East. He had been purposely cut out of major foreign policy decisions more than once, and his advice often had gone unheeded or been only grudgingly accepted by the president. Though Powell had scored some victories, the rumored humiliations had been real.
"Powell had constantly found himself on the losing side of regular ideological combat inside the Bush administration, particularly against Rumsfeld and the powerful vice president, Dick Cheney, over Iraq and a host of other foreign policy issues. But, of course, Cheney would never have allowed that. But things could have worked out between the most popular man in Bush's Cabinet and the Regime if Bush would have fired the most loathed man in his Cabinet: Donald Rumsfeld. Powell says he had already told Bush he didn't want to stay for what he must have known would be a catastrophic second term. Bush, always the coward, didn't have the guts to do it himself, of course, and had Andrew Card do the dirty work. Tomorrow's Washington Post puts it in black and white- something few knew and many suspected: Bush fired his well-liked, somewhat too independent minded non-neocon Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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