To Talking Point Memo: Yeah But…
Joshua Micah Marshall quibbles with one of his readers who advocates consequences for Lieberman in the name of party discipline.
Sorry but with your and Atrios’ blog battle over Joe Momentum the real issue is being missed. This is now an issue about the basis of the Democratic Party – if Lieberman gets re-elected as a Independent after loosing a Democratic Party primary and the Dems in the Senate welcome him back into their caucus like nothing has happened our Party is dead.
Joshua replied:
Putting self above party at the expense of party should have consequences. But at what cost? I part ways with those wanting to enforce party discipline even as they admit it might cost Dems a Senate majority. As I have said before, a Democratic Senate with Lieberman in it far surpasses a GOP Senate without Lieberman.
Yeah, but Lieberman is running with Republican money and support. He is making Bush’s case for him and using GOP talking points. If he gets back to the Senate, who’s he gonna dance with? The ones that brung him, that’s who. I don’t want to see a GOP Senate with Lieberman.
