This is so far from being important to the state of the Republic that you can treat what follows as a kind of duty-of-care post: it won’t add anything much to what we already know about the way the Villagers play, but we have to keep pointing and smirking as much as possible. Naming and shaming is part of how we get our politics back, IMHO.
So after that sermonizing break, here’s a little item that caught my eye a couple of days ago from Mickey Edwards.
Edwards is wired; he’s active; he’s pulled every stop on the Village organ, and no one has ever said that he’s a dummy.
But his post telling us not to “Gloat Over Lieberman’s Exit,” almost comically gives the lie to that presumption of insight. To begin a minifisking, here’s where Edwards transcribes Lieberman’s self perception:
The truth is, Lieberman is neither fish nor fowl, which makes him the kind of member of Congress we should all hope for; one who decides issues on their merits, not party dictates, and who listens to his constituents, not party insiders.
Well, except for matters like this, in which Lieberman consistently listened to certain constituents (give Mickey one there) but not to anything remotely like a majority of his electorate.
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Reality 1, Edwards 0
Then there’s this:
Annals of the Village: Mickey Edwards edition.Post + Comments (29)