Joe Lieberman
In my Iraq Conundrum essay I mentioned the critical role played by Senator Joe Lieberman in providing Democrats a majority in the Senate. This point was clearly articulated in the February 12th New Yorker article by Jeffrey Goldberg, titled The Lorax: “ Lieberman’s Democratic colleagues know that if he switched parties they would lose their majority, and so they tend to indulge him, unless they are speaking to reporters off the record.”
Joe Lieberman is a strong supporter of Bush Iraq policy. He told Goldberg: “So why do I trust President Bush in spite of the mistakes that were made, consequential mistakes? Because having watched him, having talked to him, I believe that he understands the life-and-death struggle we are in with the most deadly and unconventional enemy, Islamic extremism. And that he has shown himself, notwithstanding all these mistakes, willing to go forward with what he believes is right for the security of the country, regardless of what it has done to him popularity.”
The article also mentions that he is reading “America Alone” by Mark Steyn, which argues that Europe is succumbing, demographically and culturally, to an onslaught by Islam, leaving America friendless in its confrontation with Islamic extremism.
It should be clear from this that Senate Democrats will never dare to rock the boat.
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