Connecticut Votes Today

Today is a big day for Senator Joe Lieberman, the state of Connecticut, and perhaps the nation. Lieberman has been a good progressive voice on many issues, particularly regarding race, women's issues, and union support. But he is wrong on the war. And it goes beyond the fact that he joined most of his Democratic colleagues in their cowardly refusal to raise any tough questions about Bush's foreign policy before the war. He hasn't learned. And he has either refused or been unable to see how Bush has used foreign policy as a tool of partisan politics:

"The stance that, for a senator, politics ought to stop at the water's edge makes sense if and only if the president isn't playing politics with foreign policy," said William A. Galston of the Brookings Institution, who has often sided with Lieberman on intraparty battles but disagrees with him on the war.

"But this president and this administration manifestly have played politics with foreign policy, and their chief political adviser has been totally frank about that," he added. "I think it would have been permissible and even advisable for Joe Lieberman to conclude at some point that a bipartisan foreign policy has got to be a two-way street. He really didn't."

Because the war has become such a foreign and domestic policy disaster Leiberman needs to go.