Reply #8: No, but you were agreeing with a media spin that is inane [View All]

[TayTay]

and insane. Lieberman was criticized because he didn't vote to continue the filibuster of Alito. (Gee, I seem to remember that Sen. Kerry had something to do with that.) Lieberman was criticized because he didn't vote for either the Levin/Reed Amendment or the much stronger Kerry/Fieingold/Boxer Amendment. Lamont said that he agreed with the Kerry/Feingold/Boxer Amendment and would have voted for it. (Not the Edwards Amendment, not the Bayh Amendment, not the Clinton Amendment.) Kerry was a background presence in this race. How obvious can that be?

Lamont wasn't asked on Hardball, Meet the Press, etc or by the NYTimes or WaPo or whatever if he agreed with Hillary Clinton and her proposals. He was asked about being inline with proposals that have been trumpeted (shouted from the rooftops, screamed about at top volume, etc) by the taller Senator from Massachusetts. Kerry was the measuring stick for a lot of this, not Edwards, Bayh, Clinton and so forth. Kerry.

And we want to know why he wasn't the first one out of the gate to say something to Lamont? Dammit, he was the gate on this. He was one of the first 'Big Dems' to say he would let the people speak and then back the nominee of those people. Gawd, how soon they forget.