More foolishness in Beltway Bubble Land

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/05/AR2009020501622_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009020600080&s_pos=

It is pretty horrible to watch the Senate pontificate and see the so called moderates try to cut the size of the bill down. Many economist, including Paul Krugman, are not only saying that the economic situation is dire, but that the bill is too small, and yet people in Bubble Land are trying to cut out things they deem unworthy, like Head Start, aid to states for Special Education, money for Amtrak, aid to states to fund teachers, policemen and firefighters, and more. Have any of them spoken to the governors of their state's lately? I think not. Ben Nelson of NE and the faintly creepy Evan Bayh are part of this group, and I am sure that the dreaded Lieberman will soon be raising his sanctimonious head. This is the time for arm twisting on the part of the Democratic leadership and tell them, Come on folks, stop thinking you actually have ideas and fall in line.

Bitter

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/16/dorgan-lieberman/

I was happy to see that Byron Dorgan finds Lieberman's actions unacceptable. I know that Leahy and Sanders called for Lieberman to loose his committee chair, but that not very surprising. I called Dodd's office on Friday to rant, saying I was a CT resident and had been a big fan of Chris Dodd (all true, by the way,) but was appalled that he was supporting Lieberman as chair for various reasons, including that Lieberman was useless and investigated nothing, and showed the terrible judgement of supporting McCain who was clearly a deranged candidate, and that Lieberman clearly did not represent CT voters. I held back and did not say things like, he is an odious little toad who deserves NOTHING but CONTEMPT!!! The person I spoke to was very polite, and said that she would pass on my remarks to the Senator - fat chance, she didn't take my name or address and clearly thought I was a crank, which I guess I am. I read somewhere that Evan Bayh said Lieberman should keep the chair otherwise he would become bitter. I have news for you - Lieberman is the personification of bitter. I read that it is going to be a secret ballot, so maybe the spineless dems will annonomously stab Joe in the back - as Rahm would say, Dead, Dead, Dead!