One that doesn't get it, and one that does.

I know, it seems like Lieberman week here at FBC (as in everywhere else in BlogWorld), and I promise to get back to some film reviews, photoblogging, a bit of focus on our own races in Vermont, and a Christofascist Idiot Watch Update soon, but let me indulge you once more. First, here's what one who doesn't get it looks like, thanks to our Bush-enabling Washington Post:

"But Mr. Lieberman became an object of voter anger not only about the war but at the Bush administration in general. Because Mr. Bush has governed too often in a partisan way, many Democratic voters concluded that anyone who reached across the aisle in an effort to cooperate must be a sap. In such an environment, party orthodoxy comes to matter more than accomplishment; any assumption of good faith on the other side becomes a sign of weakness."

Um, no, you shitheads. There's a big difference between 'reaching across the aisle' to get things done and saying things like this:

"It’s time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation’s peril."

I know, you've heard it before, but you get what I mean.That's more like reaching across the aisle to give a handjob.

Now, Joe's hometown paper, the New Haven Register, does get it:

"Somehow, the irony of a general election strategy that relies on Republican votes to win seems to have eluded a politician who touted his Democratic credentials during the campaign. It merely supports Lamont supporters' charge that Lieberman is a closet Republican.

By running as a third-party candidate, Lieberman has left himself open to the charge that he is not only a spoiler but that he cares more about himself than the party to which he still claims allegiance.

The primary vote should have told Lieberman that he was out of touch with the state that he had taken too much for granted. Until almost the closing days of the election, he seemed unable to gauge the deep anger of Democrats over the war in Iraq and his support for it."

Expect more of this as the week goes on. I don't agree that, as some on our side are saying, that this will shift the focus away from Dems beating Repubs and have it be about Lieberman, though. I doubt the voters of Ohio really care about what's going on in Connecticut more than what's going on Ohio.