Not just the new so-called “conservatives” who only seem to count social conservatives as “authentic”; plenty of Goldwater conservatives (marry your goldfish for all we care) were equally astounded.

That many of us failed to post attack pieces was more to do with the end of his term, and the 11th commandment, than any lack of actual horror.

BTW – Lurkers, etc.
Allow me to exempt the one major social conservative worthy of even this libertarian/Republican’s support.

*SOME* social conservatives, notably Peter Wolfgang, enjoy such substantial intellectual integrity that they’ll line up on the majority of non-social conservative issues (even those issues that fail to interest them) rather than violate an alliance.

Peter is thus exempt from any “there they go again” charges, as he does not play the same one-way game that others in his camp have been guilty of for decades.

Obama’s rescue operation is not simply a continuation of Bush’s. It is 1) quantitatively different. One understands the difference between 1 trillion and 4 trillion. And it is 2) qualitatively different. Bush didn’t initiate policies that would have the effect of destroying the insurance industry in CT, Dodd’s and Lieberman’s home turf. At some point Obama and his chorus are going to have to stop whining that everything is Bush’s fault. Man-up. Take ownership. It’s the least a president who vowed change can do.

Chris Dodd, love him or hate him, is right at the center of… financial regulations reform

ha! Catastrophes in the making.

Dodd should know the correct answer is to begin a serious discussion about:

1) ending fiat money
2) ending fractional reserve banking
3) ending the federal reserve

But instead he spends his time speaking to Jane Hamsher about something he will never do… ask Bernanke for the names of the bailout banks.

No, that would be Atty. General Blumenthal.

Owing to an accidental security breech, the deliberations of the US Congressional Ethics Committee have now been flushed into the public square.

Reporters are now sifting through the detritus.

An advanced copy of the report, I am told, has been secured by Ken Krayeske.

Watch out!

Here’s Greenwald on Rachel Maddow’s show:

I think clearly what it’s about is primarily that fact that the industry that he’s serving by doing this—by preventing competition with the public option—is an industry from which he receives very substantial benefits. He’s drowning in campaign contributions from the insurance industry, the health care industry, the pharmaceutical industry—more than $2.5 million.

In early 2005 his wife was hired by a large P.R. firm, Hill & Knowlton, in the pharmaceutical division, which at the time was representing the health care giant Glaxo in major legislation before the Senate. And several months later Joe Lieberman was on the floor of the Senate offering legislation that would directly steer huge amounts of incentives to that company in order to develop vaccines.

So I think what you’re seeing here is the kind of legalized corruption, legalized bribery that runs the United States Senate; only in this case it’s particularly sleazy and transparent because Lieberman is ready to gut the major initiative of the Democratic Party.

I think Lieberman does whatever he thinks is best at that given point. I often disagree with his conclusions but I think we should respect him for his honesty and sincerity (not insincerity as you suggest).

Just because he doesn’t vote lock step with Harry Reids far left agenda doesn’t make him a bad guy.