Lamont to Challenge Lieberman

This is good news for Liberal and for Progressive Democrats: Ned Lamont has decided to challenge Senator Lieberman during the Connecticut Democratic primary.

As Sirota points out, aside from the fact that Lieberman routinely dogs his own party and the party’s grassroots, Lieberman has simply lost touched with his constituents:

That’s right, in a Hartford Courant article, Lieberman campaign manager Sean Smith says:

“[Lieberman] ran for vice president. He ran for president. He hasn’t really had a dialogue with Connecticut voters about Connecticut issues in a while.”

Exactly - Lieberman, living the lavish life of an insulated Senator, hanging out with lobbyists and neoconservative ideologues at cocktail parties - has absolutely no connection to actual people anymore.

That might explain why he has taken such out-of-the-mainstream positions in support of the Iraq War the UAE ports deal. It might explain why he sees no problem hanging out at parties with some of the most extremist right-wing forces in America.

It might explain why he has so ardently supported corporate-written trade deals that sell blue collar Connecticut workers out. Because those positions and that behavior is acceptable to someone who has caught such a bad case of Potomac Fever, they have become wholly disconnected from reality.

And if that weren’t enough, how can we forget this gem:

That’s right, that’s Bush planting a wet one on Senator Lieberman — you can see the video at Crooks and Liars.