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August 09, 2006
"I have great respect for Dick Cheney. I don't agree with a lot of things he said in this campaign. He was a very distinguished Secretary of Defense, and I don't have anything negative to say about him."
So Lieberman lost to Lamont in Connecticut, but Joe won't to give up. It's funny. A lot of people think that the animosity the left feels for Lieberman is about the Iraq war. But it goes back further than that. Partly, it's because the guy was the first Democrat to break ranks and criticize Clinton during the whole Lewinsky scandal. In fact, that's why Gore chose him for the campaign...distancing from Clinton. Partly it was that joke of a debate he had with Cheney (see the Lieberman quote I used as a title). Those are just ancillary reasons, though.The real reason Lieberman's despised? Florida at the end of the year 2000. If you look at the tick-tock of the post-election struggle, Lieberman threw in the towel first, without consulting Gore. He was so eager to throw the match when he was up against Bush, but when it comes to a fellow Democrat, Joe just refuses to follow the will of the people.
The White House is real nervous about what Lamont's nomination bodes for the mid-terms.
The NSRC is freaking about Lamont as well.
One diarist at the Agonist thinks Lamont's win against the Republican nominee should be a no-brainer.
Kottke found a cool old article about telegraphers' intuition about the person at the other end of the wire, which I believe is called the "fist" of the tapper.
intentional leftovers == planned-overs via
Loony Christian calculus
Once a person has been called to be a Christian, we are redeemed by Christ but not released from following the law of God. We are justified once but continue with the process of sanctification for the remainder of our lives. This sanctification process is like the limit process of the secant lines approaching the tangent line. There is one distinction between the concepts of sanctification and secant line limits, however. In the mathematical contexts, we accept results that are "sufficiently close," results that are in an epsilon-neighborhood of the desired quantity. While in our quest for perfection, the "better" we get the further we realize we are from satisfying all aspects of the law.
Posted by Jon Rubin at August 9, 2006 11:52 PM
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