Congrats To Ned Lamont And Hank Johnson...

...and big fat boos to Joe Lieberman for showing his ass while losing and disrespecting the will of his party's voters, and to Cynthia McKinney for being, well, Cynthia McKinney.

Lieberman, a three-term incumbent with the backing of his party's elite, is embarrassing himself by trying to spin his loss to Ned Lamont as a moral victory.

That is just so sad.

Oh, and almost forgotten in all the Lamont-Lieberman to-do, was the fact that a conservative nutjob ousted a moderate Republican congressman in Michigan yesterday.

Those Republicans do so love their ideological purity...

UPDATE: Here's a great explanation for Lieberman's loss from Josh Marshall...

Yes, Iraq was the issue that crushed Lieberman in the Democratic party. And the blogs were the vehicle that helped that latent but pervasive disgruntlement among Connecticut Democrats become aware of itself. But Joe Lieberman succumbed to a political ailment (common to long-serving senators) that would have been as recognizable to Daniel Webster and Henry Clay as it was to so many 21st century bloggers: He got his head lost in the clouds of national politics and lost touch with his constituents.

It's the same reason John Edwards' popularity waned in North Carolina during the lead-up to the 2004 Presidential election, and the same reason Liddy Dole's stature in North Carolina is waning as well...

2nd UPDATE: 60% of Americans now oppose the war in Iraq. I guess Joe Lieberman wasn't trying to "bring the Democratic Party back to the mainstream" after all...
- posted by Brian @ 9:04 AM