(2008-11-13) Greenwald Democrats Still Same

Glenn Greenwald takes Joseph Lieberman's likely ascendancy to the chairmanship of Homeland Security as proof that the US Senate is really still a One Party System. We know there are going to be major wars - not with Republicans, but among Democrats, and especially the party's leaders - over things like closing Guantanamo, imposing an absolute ban on torture, restoring habeas corpus, withdrawing from Iraq, reducing executive secrecy and increasing transparency, imposing mild limits and oversight on the Surveillance State, returning the Congress to its proper role, and especially investigating prior crimes of high government officials. More generally, there's going to be immense pressure for Barack Obama to prove that he's "centrist" by making only minor modifications, not major changes, to prevailing Bush policies - a view that is a principal motivating belief of the Democratic Party.

Update: there's a petition to tell your congress-critter to dump Joey.