speech <\/a><\/strong>last December 6, Lieberman declared, “It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be Commander-in-Chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war we undermine Presidential credibility at our nation\u2019s peril. ”<\/p>\nLieberman never spoke of the national peril created by presidential and Pentagon lies.<\/p>\n
In honor of Lieberman’s loss, I downed a Samuel Adams tonight – the beer of patriots who scorn any and all apologists for kings and would-be kings. (Mind you, I’m not endorsing Sam Adams beer for all occasions.\u00a0 And admittedly, if the place I had stopped for dinner after biking had a better selection, I might have gone Deutsch.)<\/p>\n
Hopefully other politicians who were lauded as brave heroes by the media for sending American boys\u00a0to die in Iraq\u00a0will meet the same fate as Lieberman.\u00a0 There has been damn little political accountability in this country for the last five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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