{"id":8362,"date":"2011-01-20T19:11:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T00:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8362"},"modified":"2011-01-20T19:12:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T00:12:30","slug":"lieberman%e2%80%99s-exit-is-the-true-end-of-camelot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8362\/lieberman%e2%80%99s-exit-is-the-true-end-of-camelot\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman\u2019s Exit Is The True End of Camelot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How fitting that on the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BLmiOEk59n8\" target=\"_blank\">John F. Kennedy\u2019s inaugural address<\/a> news of Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2011\/jan\/19\/nation\/la-na-0119-joe-lieberman-20110119\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Lieberman\u2019s (D-CT) retirement<\/a> hits the commentariat.\u00a0 \u00a0In today\u2019s Senate, Lieberman is the last lion of an old-school approach to being liberal: hawkish on foreign policy, civil rights, and fiscal policy.\u00a0 The statist mindset has so overtaken the modern Democratic Party that it\u2019s hard to imagine \u201cGive \u2018em Hell\u201d Harry Truman and Henry \u201cScoop\u201d Jackson choosing to serve alongside the likes of Barack Obama and Barbara Boxer in what was once called \u201cthe most deliberative body in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of the corruption story of a once sane party is the outsize influence of public employee unions.\u00a0 When public employees were allowed to unionize, Democratic politicians found it irresistible to negotiate sweetheart union contracts in exchange for campaign cash and poll workers.\u00a0 After all, the wealth being wasted was just other people\u2019s money.<\/p>\n<p>With the economy sagging, the American people know who to blame.\u00a0 Veteran Democratic pollster Doug Schoen says in today\u2019s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> that if his party doesn\u2019t start scaling back overpromised union benefits, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704405704576064282100893372.html\" target=\"_blank\">independent voters will continue to vote Republican<\/a>.\u00a0 For current and future leaders of the Democratic Party looking for direction, it would be a good exercise to meditate on JFK\u2019s famous admonition to \u201cAsk not what your country can do for you.\u00a0 Ask what you can do for your country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How fitting that on the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy\u2019s inaugural address news of Senator Joe Lieberman\u2019s (D-CT) retirement hits the commentariat.\u00a0 \u00a0In today\u2019s Senate, Lieberman is the last lion of an old-school approach to being liberal: hawkish on foreign policy, civil rights, and fiscal policy.\u00a0 The statist mindset has so overtaken the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,442,646,2020,1690,2304,741,1409,761],"class_list":["post-8362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-barbara-boxer","tag-democratic-party","tag-doug-schoen","tag-harry-truman","tag-henry-scoop-jackson","tag-joe-lieberman","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-public-employee-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8366,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions\/8366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}