Fertil and lamont

Dispatch from enemy central

It's my sense that Bob Fertik's (Democrats.com) influence on today's Sacco & Vanzetti set has been eclipsed by, first Moveon.org, and now Kos, but  he's still a reliable bellwether.  Here he is on the subject of Joe Lieberman. During the Vietnam War, Peter Arnett interviewed an anonymous US officer who said "we had to destroy the village in order to save it." That's the model for Joe Lieberman's post-defeat strategy, as he told Matt Lauer: I am committed to this campaign, to a different kind of politics, to bringing the Democratic party back from Ned Lamont, Maxine Waters to the mainstream. Ned Lamont and Maxine Waters represent the opposite ends of American society. Lamont, the grandson of J.P. Morgan chairman Thomas Lamont, inherited a fortune and made it larger, became a pillar of the Greenwich establishment (even joining a whites-only country club), yet mentored poor Bridgeport students to help them get a chance at the good life he inherited. Maxine Waters, one of 13 children raised by a single mother, started factory work at 13, put herself through college, Here's the part I like, Lamont ... became a pillar of the Greenwich establishment (even joining a whites-only country club) ... . WTF?  Fertik makes it sound like Lamont was on a dangerous mission.  Was he furtively infiltrating blue-blooded society after graduating from Communist Training School?  Or, is it that he's just another liberal hypocrite? To give you a sense of the disaster that Lamont is,  a civil war has erupted within the democratic party.  New Republic owner Marty Peretz, who once fired the late Michael Kelly for being critical of Al Gore, attacks the Lamont family ties to communism (''.. Ned Lamont, from the stock of Morgan partner Thomas Lamont and that most high-born American Stalinist, Corliss Lamont ...)!  BTW, uncle Corliss was a self admitted communist, despite what Lamont's apologists are saying.  Even someone as  despicable as Clintoid Lanny Davis condemned the antisemitism, now rampant, in democrat circles (although in so doing, he smugly equivocated, "we expect that from republicans, but not our party'').. As for the Maxie Waters puffery ... Bwahaaaaaa.  Damn, I feel good.