| I want you to sit back for just a moment and relax. There's so much work to be done over the next few days and you should probably take a minute to rest. While doing so, I'd like you to imagine a US Senate in which McCain worshipping CT Senator Joe Lieberman becomes as superfluous as teats on a boar hog, as my grandma used to say. Joe's moment in the wingnut sun is almost over. He put all his chips on McCranky in hopes of fleeing the Senate for a cushy Cabinet job and now it looks increasingly likely that just isn't going to happen. Over the course of the last 6 months or so, Lieberman has told anyone who will listen how Barack Obama isn't qualified to lead the nation, isn't ready to do so, doesn't put his "country first" and even how he would "hesitate" to say Obama is a "Marxist", but couldn't really, ya know, rule it out. I mean, the man even pulled the full Zell Miller and addressed the Republican National Convention, though, in his defense, he did not challenge anyone to a duel as far as I know.
Enough. It's time to plan for a post-Lieberman Senate
When will Democratic leaders realize that every time Joe Lieberman spouts right-wing talking points on TV as a "Democrat" or attends a Republican press conference as a "Democrat," that spites their face big-time?
So here's the plan. Immediately after Election Day, if Democrats don't need Lieberman as their 60th vote in the Senate, progressive activists in Nevada will stand in front of Harry Reid's office for hours and read your letters to Harry Reid about Joe Lieberman.
Media will be invited. It will be a grand spectacle, and Harry Reid will get the hint that in the progressive era, he needs to be bold. And the first step is to boot Joe Lieberman.
The event at Reid's office will feature folks reading these letters aloud. I'm told that if enough folks from NY write their own letters, there may even be an event at Schumer's office as well.
So write Harry Reid a letter. Let him know your vision of a post-Lieberman Senate. |
