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30 January 2008

Sadly, This is Not a Parody

Now that George Bush will be leaving office in 2000, Ralph Nader is very helpfully reminding us of how he got there. Yes, Ralph Nader now has an exploratory committee for a 2008 presidential run.

Let us instead weigh the possibility of pulling together half a million dedicated citizens collectively rising up off our couches and organizing a ground force in every Congressional district in the country.

That would be nice. It would also be nice if the Green Party leaders who are listed on that site were capable of organizing more than the odd candidate or two for state representative every election. For a "grassroots" party, the Greens resemble the Libertarians more than anyone else in their penchant for running for as few races as organizationally possible. (Yes, there are exceptions to this rule, but in no state are the Greens a political force of any sort.)

Every time Ralph Nader runs for president, I am reminded of his appearance on a Sesame Street special from 1988. As a "consumer advocate" he manages, whilst inspecting Bob McGrath's cardigan from his Aunt Myrtle, to pull off all of the buttons, rip off a pocket, and rend a sleeve to bits. And somehow, his effort is supposed to be worthwhile.


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Posted by Tim W at 1/30/2008 02:11:00 PM

11 June 2007

Independent "Democrat"

Not long ago, Joe Lieberman was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President. And he seems highly motivated to prove how bad a Vice President he would be.

Today, the Senate voted to cut off debate on a motion to express no confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose sworn testimony to Congress earlier this year seems dissembling at best and wholly untruthful at worst. Of the 53 votes to cut off debate, 46 came from Democrats and 7 came from Republicans. Four Democrats missed the vote—three who are running for President, plus Tim Johnson, who is recuperating from a stroke. The only so-called Democrat who voted not to cut off debate was "independent Democrat" Joe Lieberman.

When he first was elected to the Senate, Lieberman won by running to the right of liberal Republican Lowell Weicker. Nowadays, the left flank of the Republican Party has moved rightward—no one will mistake Norm Coleman, Susan Collins, Chuck Hagel, Gordon Smith, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, and John Sununu for Jacob Javits and Lowell Weicker. Yet Joe Lieberman has moved even further to the right than the Republican Party has.

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Posted by Tim W at 6/11/2007 07:27:00 PM

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