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thought for the day…

the question of whether lieberman should suffer consequences for his apostasy is being framed in terms of whether the obama-led democratic party will live up to its leader’s campaign rhetoric and move forward with magnanimity and grace, letting bygones be bygones and healing old wounds because we need everybody on board, and because bipartisanship! punishing lieberman would be petty and pointless, we’re told, and would contradict the spirit of unity that has characterized the campaign and the nascent obama administration.

i disagree, and not just because i personally would love to see lieberman’s head on a spike, for my own shallow and vindictive reasons. at the end of the day, this is not about punishing a turncoat democrat; it’s about whether we’re willing to accept amoral, transparently self-serving hack politics in the interest of a very narrow definition of pragmatics.