Change?

I've been noodling what to blog tonight for your Tuesday work avoidance and while there's a wonderful article in the New York Times on cellphones in Iraq, maybe the last remaining outlet for free social expression, the only thing really on my mind is the fervent prayer, hope, wish that Joe Lieberman goes down in Connecticut tomorrow.

I've blogged about Ned Lamont, breath of fresh air, vs. Joe Lieberman, danger to our nation, on several occasions. The first was way back in early June. Back then it was in reaction to Harry Reid making a comment that was less than supportive of Joe, who has been less than supportive of his own political party. Key to my thinking has been how disastrous to the people of Iraq, to our standing in the world, to our freedoms at home.

Last month I wrote about Riverbend, a young female blogger in Iraq, and mentioned Joe Lieberman's vanity. Her life continues to degrade at a terrifying rate into Medieval fear and violence. Yet Joe Lieberman dares to act as if supporting BushCheneyCo's Iraq War policy is being "strong on national security." For that alone, he is a gigantic tool.

The Rovian move has been to try and neutralize the Bush War support as an issue. Hey, it's only one issue. Okay, so you wouldn't buy my intimidating you into silence line, so I'll backpedal to grudgingly, and for my own political survival, accepting "a diversity of opinion".

If you don't believe me, watch this news report on the last day of the campaign. Ned may have the newcomers tension, but there's something alive there. Tell me if you don't feel, as I do, that everything currently wrong with the Washington, DC of the past 6 years isn't microcosmed in that smug, high-handed way Joe talks about the voter. Like we're the morons.

Here's the scoop, plain and simple: Joseph Lieberman is a neoconservative.

He's may seem a little softer than you imagine the Kristols and Krauthammers of the neocons to be, but that's by design. The neocons are mainly ex-Democratic liberals who claim that five-term Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-WA 1953-1983), a domestic moderate but Anti-Communist hawk who had huge defense industry ties in his home state, and Richard Perle as his assistant -- the neocon leader who predicted of the Iraq War that "it isn't going to be over in 24 hours, but it isn't going to be months either." Jackson famously supported the Vietnam War, and we all know how that went.

In 1970 Jackson was able to beat back a hotly contested Primary challenge by Seattle lawyer and peace candidate, Carl Maxley. This, of course, gave me pause to learn, as so much history gets repeated these days thanks to the neocons in and out of office.

But history repeats itself with variations, and this is not 1970. In fact, the only people stuck there, are the neocons themselves.

DC is completely out of touch. Cokie'd up, even.

I have tremendous faith in the Democratic voters of Connecticut, I don't recall ever hearing of Diebold having infected that state's voting system, and I think New England has to be the first stop on the 2006-2008 freedom restoration train. After all, New England gave us the American Revolution, got rid of the first King George.

If Joe gets his ass kicked he says he'll still run as an Independent in the fall. Independent as in, neocon. So one of his pre-Primary Day threats has been, I'm not going anywhere. Like Jason or Michael or Freddy.

The hell with all that.

Here's to not being disappointed by the end of Tuesday night.

Godspeed, Ned.