Beating Up Lieberman Is Cover-Up for Lefts Problems
Ernest Istook /
The Left is lost without a villain. You can’t have victims without one. To maintain its cult of victimology, the Left must identify (or create) bad guys. Hence, according to the narrative from the Left:
- Our economy struggles because fat cat bankers are selfish and George W. Bush left Barack Obama a mess.
- Health care is expensive because insurance companies are greedy.
- And we cannot enter health-reform paradise because Joe Lieberman is blocking the doorway.
The Democrats’ choice for Vice President in 2000, Sen. Lieberman (I, CT) is now Public Enemy Number One to the Left. Heaping blame on him is also a convenient way to hide the divisions among Democrats, including several other Democrat Senators who did as much as Lieberman to quash the most recent version of health care legislation. It’s easier to scapegoat a villain than to admit your ideas fail because they’re flawed. The Left prefers to drop someone from hero to zero than to acknowledge that liberals have overreached. (more…)