Disgruntled Dems Consider Challenge to Lieberman

Nancy Pelosi praises her party for not having just one position on the war in Iraq. "There is no one Democratic voice . . . and there is no one Democratic position," Mrs. Pelosi said in an interview with The Washington Post. That is true except for the position of Sen. Joe Lieberman.

Passions flared after Lieberman's recent trip to Iraq. Upon his return, the three-term senator pointed to what he views as progress on the ground there and suggested that Democrats should avoid harsh criticisms of President Bush's Iraq policy.

"It's at the point where he's no longer interested in his own party's opinion, he's really out of touch with reality," said Mitchell Fuchs, chairman of the Fairfield Democratic Town Committee in Connecticut. "For me, he's crossed the line a number of times."

n an interview with FOXNews.com, former U.S. senator and Connecticut Gov. Lowell Weicker said he will challenge Lieberman in 2006 if no credible anti-war Democrat or Republican jumps into the race first.

The actual Democrat position is there is no one anit-war position. There is no room for a Democrat who sees anything good in Iraq. One can have a differing opinion on the war so long as it's an anit-war opinion.

Meanwhile, a letter with 55,000 signatures — mostly from out of state — was delivered to Lieberman's district office in Hartford last Tuesday urging the senator to stop "trying to stifle debate" on war policy and join "the majority of Americans in questioning President Bush's foreign policy."

The group circulating the letter, Democracy for America, is led by Jim Dean, a Connecticut resident and brother of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.

I have to chuckle at the unbridled Orwelian statements these people make. Stifling debate would imply Sen. Lieberman was kicking people out of the party. Once again he's guilty of stifling the anti-war unity of the Democrats, but not on debate of war policy at all.

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