Lieberman's Defeat is Who's Fault?

W.House: Democrats' extreme left defeated Lieberman Reuters: 8/9/06

"Tony Snow called the election a defining moment for the Democratic Party. "I know a lot of people have tried to make this a referendum on the president. I would flip it. I think instead it's a defining moment for the Democratic Party whose national leaders now have made it clear that if you disagree with the extreme left in their party, they're going to come after you," he said." (access entire story above)

Senator Chuck Hagel openly criticizes the Bush Administration's Iraq policy and Senator Lieberman's failure as a Democratic candidate is the Democratic party's failure? How about this: the Bush Administration's Iraq policy is a failure and the American public, like Hagel, is beginning to catch on where Lieberman and the Bush Administration have not.