Lamont's Op-ed in today's Hartford Courant

[femmedem]

Lieberman and Lamont both have op-ed's in today's Hartford Courant. Here's a snip from Lamont's:


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"It begins with changing Washington. The people of Connecticut are tired of a Congress that has 63 lobbyists for every elected representative – spending more than $400,000 per month per member of Congress.

Changing Washington also means changing our national priorities. We’re spending more than $250 million a day in Iraq while our deficit explodes and our domestic agenda is starved for funds. Today in Connecticut, 400,000 people lack health insurance and schools close early because we don’t have the resources for after-school programs that aid academic achievement and give kids a place to study before their parents come home to dinner.

Changing Washington means fighting to restore American values. This administration, supported by Sen. Lieberman, is bringing the government into our private lives in ways the Founding Fathers never intended – in the Schiavo family’s private medical decisions, with warrantless wiretaps and judicial appointees that jeopardize a woman’s reproductive rights. Government has gotten too big and too intrusive, and we need to change that."

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more at

http://www.nedlamont.com/page/invite/whatvoterswant

[kaygore]

1. Very well said

[IndianaGreen]

5. Very well said, indeed!

Lieberman has been way outside the Democratic mainstream, and even to the right of Hillary, with his position on the Schiavo case and in opposing even the moderate no-date-certain Iraq exit resolution that Hillary endorsed.

[rodeodance]

2. this too

And we've agreed that in this dangerous time, President Bush and his supporters like Sen. Lieberman have weakened America's security and moral standing in the world by fighting an unprovoked war in Iraq instead of a real war against terrorism.

[femmedem]

3. Yes, I liked that part too.

Moral standing is very important to Holy Joe's supporters, and it's good to point out how he has helped erode ours.

[Cha]

4. So true, so

perfectly said.

[femmedem]

6. Hey, I just noticed I'm a moran.

Why the heck did I put that apostrophe in Op-Eds? Sheesh, my first freeper moment.:blush: