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good points all, thank you.

But it is just so f******g tragic how he went from being this shunned paraiah for those brief, magical days last summer…..to this all-important majority holder with lipstick all over his ass….

Well, oddmommy, the points are interesting, but it is not only my opinion that Lamont could have won. The national Dems could have promoted his Republican opponent, who was no fool, thereby keeping more Republican votes away from Lieberman. They could have given more money and campaign help to Lamont sooner. They could have done lots of things that they didn’t do.

oddmommy, the unvarnished pornographic, f’en truth is that the national Dems did not expect to win the Senate. They weren’t too sure about the House. They were playing a safe loser’s game.

They still haven’t quite gotten the message that the American public is not only on their side, but far ahead of them, waiting impatiently for the Dems to catch up.
To propose bold solutions.
To lead, damnit.

The Reps are out of ideas and the country knows it. Control of the government is there for the taking if the Democrats will just grow a pair of gonads (either XX or XY) and grab it.

However, at the critical time national Democrats bailed on Ned Lamont. Remember Barbara Boxer? She’s done some interesting things with her committee chairmanship, but can she be trusted to take a risk when the chips are down? Can Senator Reid? Hmmm?

National Dems may have thought of their support of Lieberman as practical, as supporting a friend, as who knows? To me and lots of ordinary voters like me it looked then, and looks now, like cowardice and ignoring the will of the voters expressed by the ballot.

Actions have consequences, Harry.
Actions have consequences.

what a rip-off
I followed the link to hear the old Oscar Brown Jr tune. :(
only got a watered down translation.

Yep. I agree. Good version by Paula West on Album “Come What May” as well.

Probably I’m just naive, but I have never understood exactly WHY the major Democratic guns — senators in particular, did not stand with Lamont?? What could they possibly have thought they had to gain? There was no danger of losing the seat to the repugnicans…..

BigDog went on Larry King and said he wasn’t worried about Connecticut, since a Democrat would win either way.

“It has become abundantly crystal clear that the Bush Administration has no strategy in Iraq beyond incessant happy talk about the war to its own, dwindling hand-picked audience. The vast majority of Americans have reached that realization; they have also recognized that the constant ‘Support the Troops’ refrain from the Bush White House and its supporters is little more than an adjunct to the happy talk about Iraq. It is trite to the point of staleness. It is cavernously hollow, and it is entirely useless as a weapon to pacify those of us who have recognized the need to end this bloodshed, stop the violence, and seek a multi-faceted solution to the ongoing crisis in that country.”

No excuses for the VT violence but if you dig deep enough sometimes there are reasons a person reaches this level of violent and criminal behaviour
http://www.edmontonsun.com/New…..68653.html