Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Not long after Miller's widely announced departure from the Democratic Party he was appearing with Sean Hannity hawking the book he wrote that explained his decision.  Miller then joyously appeared with Hannity at joint book signings.

Just as Miller bolted the Democrats for the stated reason that his party left him rather than the other way around, Joseph Lieberman is currently sounding a variation of the same theme.  This leads to the obvious question of whether Sean Hannity occupies the ideological ground traditionally familiar to Democrats.  

To believe that Hannity occupies traditional Democratic ideological is comparable to accepting the outlandish claim by Bill O'Reilly of the same network that he is a populist and that Fox is actually objective and that the opposite perception from progressives stems from the fact that the other media outlets are strongly allied with the left and that their reportage reveals this trait.  

It was not all that long ago that Fox "commentators" were counting off the days "before President Bush's reelection."  On the network that calls itself "fair and balanced" Neil Cavuto was heard during the 2004 presidential election commenting, "If John Kerry should become president, God forbid," or words to that effect.  

While Ned Lamont, Lieberman's Democratic primary opponent in the Connecticut U.S. Senate race, confronts real progressive values such as extricating the nation from a war constructed on a tissue of lies and seeking affordable health care legislation to cover all of our citizens.  Lamont also stresses the need for creating jobs and enhancing America's dangerously receding manufacturing base.

Meanwhile Lieberman battles stubbornly on behalf of an unpopular war and a failed Administration.  He questions the values of those who disagree with him and marches to the tune of Connecticut's corporate insurance interests.

Lieberman and Fox News is a predictable team.  Lieberman falls into the same pattern as John Connally when he headed the Democrats for Nixon Committee during Richard Nixon's 1972 reelection presidential campaign.  

Connally then promptly switched parties following the election with the intention of becoming president as Nixon's heir designate.  Watergate got in the way and Connally's chance vanished.

It is no accident that Karl Rove, who idolized Nixon, is a strategy maker during a period when a faux Democrat like Joseph Lieberman links himself to the Republican National Committee's television propaganda arm, Fox News.  

The objective is clear.  If enough voters can be convinced that "Democrats" of the Lieberman stripe should be preferred over true progressives, the Bush Republicans have succeeded in achieving unilateral disarmament over the American political system.

Hopefully Connecticut voters will see through the Lieberman charade.  A viable alternative is present.  His name is Ned Lamont.