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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.
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August 8, 2007 2:28 PM
The Legacy of Ned Lamont
Today is the one year anniversary of Ned Lamont's primary victory over Joe Lieberman in Connecticut. Though Ned lost the general election after national Democrats sided with Lieberman, few doubt that Ned's candidacy has shaped the debate over the Iraq War in a profound way. I saw Ned at the YearlyKos Convention last week - he looked great and is still working hard on the issues he cares about (he's recently joined the board of the Progressive States Network, which is fantastic). Ned has relaunched his website today - go check it out.
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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover. He lives in Denver, Colorado. His daily blog can be found at CREDO Action. He contributes regularly to the Denver Post's Web site, is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and is working on his second book. He has been profiled in Newsweek and the Rocky Mountain News and is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. Sirota serves as co-chair of the Progressive States Network, a 501(c)3 organization that supports state legislators and that is a partner of CREDO.
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Lamont's loss was a precursor to what our crummy and fucked up leadership in the Democratic Party would look like. Just like Reid allowed Lieberman to cheat against Lamont, he's happily allowing Bush and GOP to cheat America to death !
Lamont's defeat showed how corrupt and bought off the Democratic leadership is. Reid and the other party seniors did everything possible to see that Lamont was made a example of for challenging the party status-quo.
Reid now lets Lieberman run around like some rampaging Frankenstein.
Today we see the House gutting CAFE standards, doing nothing to stregthen the FDA and EPA, cut secret trade deals with K Street. Reid is busy cutting deals and rolling over for Bushco.
Its just too bad most of the vaunted netroots couldn't care less about the endemic corruption in the democratic party. To me the netroots are looking more like the GOP ditto heads with internet connections. Same brainless fucks with a different party orientation.
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