Reply #19: As much as you'd like to blame Lieberman for everything that's gone wrong

[dolstein]

let me point out the following:

1. Lieberman didn't vote for the bankruptcy bill (he only voted for cloture, and given that he was one of 69 senators who did, his vote was hardly decisive). Quite a few Democrats voted for the bankruptcy bill, but I never hear them being criticized around here.

2. How many Democrats voted to confirm Brown's appointment to head FEMA. Did ANY Democrats oppose his nomination? Blaming Lieberman for Brown's confirmation seems quite a stretch.

3. How many Democrats in the Senate have actually come out in favor of gay marriage? Are you going to work for the defeat of every other Democrat in the Senate (the vast majority) who shares Lieberman's position?

4. You claim that Lieberman "single handedly cost me the right to marry for my lifetime." That strikes be as quite a stretch. After all, there's no scenario I can see under which the Alito nomination could have been defeated. There w wasn't a single Republican in the gang of 14 that believed extraordinary circumstances existed that would justify a filibuster of Alito, which meant the nuclear option would have been involvked if there had been a filibuster. So Alito would have been approved regardless of whether Lieberman supported cloture. And frankly, I think you realize this. But rather than heaping criticsm on the people who deserve it -- Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold and other Democrats on the judiciary committee who did a piss poor job in making a case against Alito -- you pin the blame on Lieberman.

Perhaps it makes you feel better to believe that all of your problems would be solved if only Joe Lieberman were wiped off the face of the earth. But perhaps one day when you are able to reflect on things, you'll realize how wrong you are.