Naughty Children will Pay the Price

Such slurs and slanders were only to be expected from the ruffled chicken hawks, squawking over the potential loss of their favorite Democratic enabler and scared of the electorate’s growing wrath. Equally predictable was the reaction of pundits and analysts, shocked by the diminishing impact of their bad advice and incoherent ideas. The great and the good of the punditocracy told the voters to shun Ned Lamont and to shut up about the war, and were duly ignored. Now those naughty children will pay the price, or so we are told.

So says Joe Conason regarding the threats and warnings from the right-wing loyalists following the Lieberman loss.

The hawks are shaking in their boots, folks… Take a listen to Limbaugh or Hannity or Savage and you can just hear the desperation in their voices. Hannity in particular can’t stop talking about how well things are going in Iraq, while Limbaugh and Savage continue their moral lecturing on how we liberals are going to bring about the destruction of the United States because of our softness on terrorism.

Guys, we’re not soft on terrorism, we just think there are much smarter ways to fight it. Roll back the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and use the money to pay for the 9/11 Commission Report recommendations. That would be a really good start.