Lieberman, the ego that ate Connecticut

Or would like to. Krugman (sorry, TimesSelect) takes holy Joe to task, along with the ninnies who are championing him:

Take a look at Thomas Ricks’s “Fiasco,” the best account yet of how the U.S. occupation of Iraq was mismanaged. The prime villain in that book is Donald Rumsfeld, whose delusional thinking and penchant for power games undermined whatever chances for success the United States might have had. Then read Mr. Lieberman’s May 2004 op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal, “Let Us Have Faith,” in which he urged Mr. Rumsfeld not to resign over the Abu Ghraib scandal, because his removal “would delight foreign and domestic opponents of America’s presence in Iraq.”

And that’s just one example of Mr. Lieberman’s bad judgment. He has been wrong at every step of the march into the Iraq quagmire — all the while accusing anyone who disagreed with him of endangering national security. Again, on what planet would Mr. Lieberman be considered “sensible”? But I know the answer: on Planet Beltway.

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So what’s really behind claims that Mr. Lieberman is sensible — and that those who voted against him aren’t? It’s the fact that many Washington insiders suffer from the same character flaw that caused Mr. Lieberman to lose Tuesday’s primary: an inability to admit mistakes.

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The question now is how deep into the gutter Mr. Lieberman’s ego will drag him.

I submit that it's actually worse than Krugman says- Lieberman isn't going to admit he made a mistake on Iraq because he doesn't think he made one. I have heard him say, multiple times the past few days, that he doesn't regret his vote on Iraq and he believes invading Iraq was the right thing to do.

In my opinion, that's worse than being mistaken. He's saying that all of the Iraqi deaths, all of the blood, chaos and horror were worth it. He's saying that pre-emptive war is a legitimate strategy.

He's not a centrist, he's a sociopath. It's telling that the majority of his current cheerleaders are all in the republican party.

The question isn't how far into the gutter Lieberman's ego will drag him, it's how far will it drag the rest of us? The democratic party needs to kick him to the curb now. He's shown where his loyalties lie, let him get down in the gutter with them.