If you haven’t already done so, please make sure to write your (possibly new) senators and representative, and soon, telling them what you expect out of them and the 110th congress. Me? I had the pleasure of being snarky with Joe Lieberman about the fact that he's the only member of the Connecticut for Lieberman party. But I also told him, Dodd, and DeLauro what I want them to do for me now that they’ve got The Power. At the risk of being insufficiently cynical, I claim that your chance to be heard is not limited to election day.
TK, a case could be made that Connecticut now has the single-most influential/powerful Senator serving.
I hope you called Lieberman "Sir" in the letter....
Comment #1 :: link :: November 9, 2006 2:10 PM :: homepageOh, I was completely civil, but I also made sure to ask him to look out for the Connecticut part rather than the Lieberman part.
His power may depend a lot on whether the Dems can maintain the party discipline they have shown in the House. (I don't know whether they have had it in the Senate as well.) That is, if they have party discipline and the Republicans don't, his power decreases. If they don't and the Republicans do, his power doesn't decrease, but his right-wing votes go up. He's only truly important if both parties maintain strict discipline, or when they do.
In any case, to make Barry Goldwater spin in his grave: Bipartisanship in the destruction of liberty is a vice.
Comment #2 :: link :: November 9, 2006 5:25 PM :: homepageIt's looking like Lamont's win in the primary was one of those "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine" moments.
Comment #3 :: link :: November 13, 2006 9:48 AM :: homepageFunny, I always thought Joe was more like Yoda.
Comment #4 :: link :: November 14, 2006 11:02 AMWell, I seriously thinking about becoming a monarchist, considering the Republicans in the House can't seem to figure out they have a problem, and the Republicans in the Senate had the huge, cancerous testicles to return Trent Lott to the leadership.
Holy crap, Washington stinks. Let's declare Brad and Angelina King and Queen; after the prolonged tragedy of the last 15 years I could use a little farce.
Comment #5 :: link :: November 15, 2006 12:13 PM :: homepage
