Saturday, August 19, 2006
Matt Bai doesn't get it
But he does get a chance to flak for erstwhile Democrat and noted Republican Stooge Joe Lieberman. In his piece in the Sunday NY Times magazine, he takes the usual swipes at liberals and bloggers and the makes his play to present Ned Lamont as a one trick pony.
If history were to repeat itself, this outpouring of new liberal passion would portend trouble for the party's establishment candidates in 2008 (especially one possible candidate whose last name happens to be Clinton). But there is at least one crucial difference between insurgents of the 1970's and today. When Bell ran for the Senate in 1978, he was so obsessed with his plan to slash taxes that he went to the extraordinary length of bringing in Arthur Laffer, the renowned conservative economist, to draw his famous Laffer Curve at a news conference in Trenton. By contrast, Lamont's signature proposal as a primary candidate - and the only one anyone cared to hear, really - seemed to be the hard-to-dispute notion that he is not, in fact, Joe Lieberman. He offered platitudes about universal health care and good jobs and about bringing the troops home but nothing that might define him as anything other than what he is: an acceptable alternative.But he neglects to sy that Ned Lamont is the product of the democratic electoral process and not the quintessential Beltway Boy a/k/a noted Republican Stooge Joe Lieberman.
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