Taylor Marsh – TaylorMarsh.com – News, Opinion and Weblog on Progressive Politics

For
the ladies, indeed, Ms. Hamsher. Well done to everyone who fought
and won one for the stiff spine, willing to risk it all for progressive
principles crowd. Lieberman obviously doubted what could happen, but he's gotten
a wake up call. Welcome to the next revolution, baby. It's brewing, soon to
be on boil, though it's really just begun for Ned
Lamont. He and everyone who put his campaign together have sent a powerful
message. Lamont got on the ballot with almost 34% last night. Lieberman got
clocked. It will be a long fight to get
Lamont over the finish line, but everyone is a lot closer to that dream
today. Credibility just catapulted into the currency of anything is possible.

The warmongering witless are now on notice.

I, for one, am more than willing to go to war when we must. I've said before
that I haven't made it into the mind set of a peacenik. I guess I'm not evolved
enough. Or maybe it's just my born in red state Missouri, raised on John Wayne
roots I have still not shed. That said, war is something we do out of necessity,
not because we're bored one day in March… or June, as is the latest timeline
rumor on Iran.

But Lieberman isn't the only one that was whipped around lately. Senator Suck
Up got a shaking at the New School. This one is enough to make a girl positively
giddy.

The first student speaker, Jean Sara Rohe, 21, said she had discarded her original remarks to talk about Mr. McCain. “The senator does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded,” she said, to a roaring ovation. “This invitation was a top-down decision that did not take into account the desires and interests of the student body on an occasion that is supposed to honor us above all.” Noting that Mr. McCain had promised to give the same speech at all of his graduation appearances, Ms. Rohe, who was one of two students selected to speak by university deans, attacked his remarks even before he delivered them. “Senator McCain will tell us today that dissent and disagreement are our civic and moral obligation in times of crisis, and I agree,” she said. “I consider this a time of crisis, and I feel obligated to speak.” She continued, “Senator McCain will also tell us about his strong-headed self-assuredness in his youth, which prevented him from hearing the ideas of others, and in so doing he will imply that those of us who are young are too naïve to have valid opinions. “I am young, and although I don't profess to possess the wisdom that time affords us, I do know that pre-emptive war is dangerous and wrong,” she said. She added, “Osama bin Laden still has not been found, nor have those weapons of mass destruction.” As Mr. McCain came to the lectern, dozens of students and professors stood and turned their backs on him. Many waved their fliers. Graduates at New School Heckle Speech by McCain photo: Librado Romero/The New York Times

What did Senator Suck Up have to say after it was all over? “I feel
sorry for people living in a dull world where they can't listen to the views
of others,” was his retort. Talk about clueless.

A “dull world” has nothing to do with it, senator. You are
an embarrassment, a punch line, a sell out, because nobody can see through political
positioning faster than young people or others who have nothing to lose by
calling people out for their political opportunism.

Senators Lieberman and McCain are not gone from the political landscape, but
their kind is waning. They are just another fact of W.'s lame duck disaster
that has become the laughing stock of the world and lost all credibility in this country. They're not gone and they will never be forgotten,
but they are all certainly sad, silly men and women who have lost any meaning to most
of us. This page of history cannot be turned fast enough, so let us trudge on.