The weird thing about the Lieberman debacle is how it's being spun as "suck it online liberals."
The people who just got pushed around by Joe Lieberman (!) are Senate Democrats. This pompous little droopy freak who has no constituency just showed he can speak at the other party's convention for the other party's candidate and his closest colleagues will say "that's great"!
I just don't feel all that emasculated, truth be told, and I just asked Molly I, and she doesn't feel, uh, de-ovaried? Whatever. "We are so tough we will not stand up for our own party or principles but we are willing to insult some people on the internet who are geeks and not cool like us and who are powerless and whom we have just defeated by being all manly!"
Very butch. Confusing, sure, but butch, I suppose, if that's what you're into. Though I really doubt that anyone in the country or even the universe believes the Dem caucus is standing on principle here. I mean, who publicly admits that they got slapped down by Joe Frickin' Lieberman? What "principle" could ever make anyone brag about that? "I just got my ass kicked by Grima Wormtongue! Make me King of the Mark!" (Nerdy liberals across the nation, high-five.)
I actually get this with the children all the time, like yesterday when I told the Four-Year-Old that she could not wear her bathing suit out in the snow, and she took her revenge on me by squirting a juice box into her hat. I'm so proud that she can some day become a United States Senator. Heck, she's already qualified.
MORE. This is really, really obnoxious.
One senator, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting was private, said Lieberman spoke openly about the rejection he faced in 2006, when many Democrats supported his opponent during the Connecticut Senate race.
"He spoke earnestly of the pain he felt when he was rejected by the Democratic Party in his re-election and in turn, the rejection he felt from many in the caucus who campaigned against him after decades and decades of friendship," the lawmaker said. "And that put him in a very different place approaching the 2008 election and John McCain was the only candidate for president who asked for his support."
The senator added: "He apologized for crossing the line in a few instances."
Click on this link if you would like a reminder of where certain lines really ought to be drawn.
"Pain."
Right.
