From Whiskey Fire blog via heads-up from Atrios:
August 13, 2006
If This Is "Civility," Go Fuck Yourself with ItThe Washington Post's Dan Balz serves up a fine piece of crap:
Will Lieberman's campaign prove to be a forerunner for a message of civility and bipartisanship that emerges nationally in 2008, or simply be remembered as an obsolete refrain from a politician living in an idealized past and that serves only to deepen partisan divisions?
What "civility and bipartisanship"? Is it
this?
"I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us - more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous that the Soviet Communists we fought during the long Cold War," Lieberman said.
"If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England. It will strengthen them and they will strike again."
Because I frankly don't see what is so very fucking "civil" about Lieberman accusing anyone who voted against him of giving aid and comfort to a greater evil than the Nazis and a greater menace than Stalin. And why is it "bipartisan" to borrow GOP talking points and use the British terror plot to smear a Democratic politician who is making an argument shared by most Americans? That's not "bipartisanship." That's arrogant stupidity and a vicious slap in the face.There is nothing actually wrong with "partisan divisions." If there were, we wouldn't hold these things called "elections."
The pretense that Lieberman is some sort of "civil" moderate is preposterous. But that's the liberal media for you. Thanks for the crap, WaPo!
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