Holy Joe, cont'd

MANIFESTO

For someone who likes to call himself the "conscience of the Senate," Connecticut's junior senator sure is willing to prostitute himself.

Joe Lieberman was beaming. "Sam Fox represents what America is all about," he said, "and that's why he will be, when confirmed, an extraordinary ambassador."

The scene was last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Connecticut's junior senator was making a highly unusual appearance to lobby for Fox's nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to Belgium.

The truth of the matter is that the unusual drop-in appearance represents what Senator Sanctimony's tactics are all about: an inexorable push toward self-aggrandizement.

Let it not be forgotten that Mr. Fox helped bankroll the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in 2004—the group that torpedoed John Kerry's 2004 campaign with a disgusting raft of half truths and outright lies. Moreover,

The day after the 2006 election, Lieberman, elected as an independent, got a $10,500 contribution from Fox and another $10,500 from Fox's wife. Both are generous GOP donors.

The appearance is a disgusting display of the very partisanship that Connecticut's caviller so piously bemoans.

The truth of the matter is that the junior senator has no conscience and has no shame.