Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Compare and Contrast
201k, August 07, 2006
- Lieberman [has] been the Bush Administration's prize Democratic cheerleader -- a position [he] assumed gleefully, going as far as adopting the Administration's rhetoric and vocabulary on the war and its pernicious habit of labeling its critics as soft on terror
- The vigor and intensity of the opposition to Lieberman stem not merely from the fact that he shared the president's positions on Iraq and foreign policy generally, but far worse, that he adopted the Bush/Rove political rhetoric on those issues and -- alone among prominent Democrats -- repeatedly wielded that rhetoric as a tool to bash and demonize anyone who opposed Bush's policies.
