SlowpokeBlog

Molly Ivins recently called Joe Lieberman "the most annoyingly sanctimonious person in politics." I'd say that's about right. Nearly as sanctimonious are the establishment pundits pooh-poohing the supporters of his challenger in the Democratic primary, Ned Lamont. The pundits blubber wrongly that progressives are creating a "litmus test" for Democratic candidates by opposing candidates solely because they support the Iraq war. Given that misconception, I regret that I only mentioned Iraq in this cartoon. I very much wanted to mention the fact that Joe sleeps with a pharmaceutical lobbyist (see Joe Conason's article from July 12), and that Lieberman led the fight in 1994 against expensing stock options on corporate balance sheets, thus paving the way for the accounting scandals that followed a few years later.

And yes, when memes are extracted from the brains of the misinformed, they really do look like blobs of glowing green energy.