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Kos: Purge? You Want a Purge? We’ll Show You a Purge!

Here’s what we all need to do the next few days: 1. Push Harry Reid to strip Lieberman of all committee assignments. 2. Let people know what a sore loser Lieberman is. 3. Get all Democrats — including Bill Clinton — to publicly back Ned Lamont. 4. Get the Democratic interest groups who backed Lieberman […]

Here’s what we all need to do the next few days:

1. Push Harry Reid to strip Lieberman of all committee assignments.

2. Let people know what a sore loser Lieberman is.

3. Get all Democrats — including Bill Clinton — to publicly back Ned Lamont.

4. Get the Democratic interest groups who backed Lieberman to switch allegiances in the general. ~Daily Kos

Of course, Kos isn’t really making such terribly extreme demands (pulling Lieberman’s committee positions is hardball, but not completely unjustified).  He expects the Democratic Party to support its nominee and work to put the rebel in his place; that is what parties do.  It is one of the reasons why parties are actually pernicious to the processes of representative government and, if it were possible, ought to be eliminated.  But the point is that Lieberman can expect a very bumpy, nasty and all together unpleasant journey on the way to November. 

Update: Kos is happy (to the extent that Markos Moulitsas is capable of being happy) that Bayh and Hillary are already throwing their support–and some money–behind Lamont.  He also does make the correct assessment of the outcomes of other contested primaries that seem to show a distinct anti-incumbency trend.  That might support the results of the Post story that the NROniks were laughing at today.

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