Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Fear and Loathing in Connecticut

The Gadflyer: Fly Trap: "Changing DC's balance of fear ...
Joshua Holland (8:03PM)

As the final days and hours tick by before tomorrow's Connecticut senate primary, you can almost smell the desperation coming from the DC establishment. Pundits are warning that a Lamont win will be a "disaster," Lieberman apparatchiks are going around Connecticut stealing Lamont's yard-signs and Washington Lobbyists are in the state harassing his supporters.

This has very little to do with the Iraq occupation, the defining issue of the day.

It's about fear of being boxed in. It's about a growing balance of fear -- of having to take fire from two directions instead of one. Because it's much easier to take cover when the rounds are coming at you from just one side. . ."

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