Putting Country Before Party

Well, Sen. Joe Lieberman is pissing off his party again. Calling on the White House and congressional leaders to create a special "war cabinet" to provide advice and direction for the war effort, he was quoted as saying:

"It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge he'll be commander-in-chief for three more years," the senator said. "We undermine the president's credibility at our nation's peril."

And the Liberal blogs are not happy with the CT Senator.

A reaction that is typical of what I've been reading this morning comes from John in DC at AmericaBlog:

You see, bipartisanship to Joe Lieberman means YOU need to just shut up and stop criticizing the president. If you would just act like a good citizen and let your government do whatever it wants, unchecked, and without a public debate over the merits of their actions, America would be doing great.

You see, when YOU openly disagree with your president, even when he's caught lying to the country and now wants to leave our troops to die in a quagmire of his own creation, YOU are the one putting our country "at peril." So the acrimony in Washington, according to Joe Lieberman, is the fault of the Democrats.

Joe Lieberman needs to get the hell out of our party. I don't know if he thinks he's running for president or what, but it better be as a Republican, because if he dares run as a Democrat, he's toast.

I find it interesting that John in DC is so sensitive to the idea of shutting down dissent within the ranks yet because Lieberman is not marching in lock-step with the rest of the Democrats he needs to "get the hell out of our party". Apparently, pushing aside other opinions is OK as long as they don't conform to your own.

Lieberman understands that the need for the U.S. to be successful in Iraq trumps the need for the Democrats to succeed politically. And if the best you can hope to succeed by attacking a sitting President who can't run for reelection is to cripple him then how can you rationalize that you are acting in the best interests of your country which, oh by the way, is at war.

Posted by: Gary at 08:51 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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