The Kansas Republican, one of the Senate's most socially conservative members, scheduled the session to explore "the consequences of legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia."
Assisted Suicide May Become Newest GOP Issue
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Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
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I could tell my question startled Connecticut Democrat Ned Lamont, who's running against Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), the war hawk and culture nanny par excellence. We were standing in Lamont's room at the Washington Hilton, the site of the Campaign for America's Future 2006 Take Back America conference. (Someone missed an opportunity for synergy by not booking the American Values suite.) As long as I was a hurdle for the candidate to jump before he could meet some people with checkbooks, I figured I could rope him into the "Libertarian Democrats" debate.
Lamont's first response was a look of wide-eyed, Marty McFly bewilderment. But after a moment of noodling, Lamont said "Terri Schiavo." Sen. Lieberman had rushed the stage when President Bush and Republican leaders were staging an intervention in the tragedy of the comatose Florida woman whose husband and parents disagreed on whether she should be taken off life support. "Sen. Lieberman thought it was the government's job to decide what was right for that family," Lamont said. "He's all right with the government intruding into our private lives. And not just in that case."
It was a good answer. (This judge would also have accepted Lieberman's video game censorship, his support for the Iraq war, or the Department of Homeland Security.) Last week, Markos "Daily Kos" Moulitsas floated the "Libertarian Democrat" idea and sparked a discussion of what the party of Jefferson Davis can do to bring libertarians into its tent. It was thrilling, insofar as anything in Connecticut politics can be thrilling, to find a little common cause with a real Democratic candidate.
The Libertarian Democrat: This Year's Jackalope
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