Gentle Readers outside Connecticut may not have seen Senator Lieberman’s essay in this Sunday’s Hartford Courant. Fortunately, somebody left a copy of the Courant outside my new residence, so I was able to smear the essay all over my fingers. Seriously, the Courant is as bad as the Boston Globe. I’m surprised I don’t get ink on my fingers from reading the website.\n
Anyway, the Courant asked two of the five candidates for Senator what they think Voters Want from their Senator. Ned Lamont’s response, headlined Someone Who Listens<\/a>, was pretty dull but didn’t have anything in it that made me not want him to be Senator. Pretty dull job, Senator, and I have no objection to being represented by a pretty dull Senator. Senator Lieberman, on the other hand, appears to be completely insane<\/a>.\n Now, some Gentle Readers may be saying to themselves, wait a minute, not only is Step One a preposterous fantasy, but Step Two has no substance whatsoever. This is true, and I admit that it is a flaw in my plan. On the other hand, YHB is just a schmuck with a blog. Senator Lieberman has been in the United States Senate for nearly eighteen years, and has access (I would hope) to a lot of information about the war that I don’t have, and his plan is still worse than mine—by one pony each. Let me reiterate: Joe Lieberman has Senatorial experience, a policy staff, access to Our Only President and his cabal of incompetents and crooks; I have DSL. His plan has peace, justice, stability; my plan has peace, justice, stability and a pony<\/I>. His plan won’t work; neither will mine. But what does mine have that his doesn’t? Yep. A pony.\n As for the rest of his essay, well, it doesn’t seem to overlap much with the universe I happen to perceive, but it does have this line: “My opponent Ned Lamont, represents the old politics of partisanship, polarization and negativism.” Remember, this is the incumbent Senator talking about the challenger. And besides, as far as I’m concerned, at this point I would support a candidate of partisanship, polarization, and negativism. I’m pretty negative about Our Only President, and I think our Party is the best way to put some halter on him, and furthermore I’ve been pushed so far out to the side of our politics that the only alternative to being at the pole is being off the planet altogether. But even better than a candidate of partisanship, polarization, and negativism would be a candidate of partisanship, polarization, negativism and a pony<\/I>.\n chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek<\/I>, Gentle Readers outside Connecticut may not have seen Senator Lieberman\u2019s essay in this Sunday\u2019s Hartford Courant. Fortunately, somebody left a copy of the Courant outside my new residence, so I was able to smear the essay all over my fingers….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17791,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions\/17791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}I believe that the best way for us to win the war in Iraq is to come together—the administration, Congress, and Republicans and Democrats—to find a solution that will allow our troops to come home with Iraq united and free, with the Middle East stable and the terrorists denied a victory.<\/blockquote>\nJust in case you missed that:\n
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"