Byron Dorgan Is A Hypocrite On Bi-Partisanship
Immediately after Obama’s election day victory Senator Byron Dorgan was busy saying that Obama should “reach out” to Republicans and end all the nasty “partisanship” in Washington DC.
“I think it’s important to reach out” in a spirit of bipartisanship, Dorgan said…
“We’ve had far too much partisanship in Washington,” Dorgan said.
Well apparently Dorgan has a different definition of “bipartisanship” than the rest of us, because today on Fox News Sunday he basically came out in favor of throwing Senator Joe Lieberman under the bus for daring to side with Republicans on a couple of issues. He says that Lieberman’s behavior has been “unacceptable.”
It’s worth noting that The One has already overruled hacks like Senator Helmethead, which is pretty much the only good and principled thing Obama has done since coming to office.
The Democrats can’t very well say they want bi-partisanship and then throw a member of their caucus under the bus for working with Republicans. It’s not like Lieberman has become a conservative. He remains a reliably liberal vote on just about every issue except those relating to national security (which is also why he endorsed McCain over Obama). If Democrats kick him out for that all their blather about ending partisanship and working with the other side just illustrates how deeply their hypocrisy goes.
