DEMOCRAT SURRENDER, AMERICAN VICTORY:

How Hoyer got the deal done (JOHN BRESNAHAN & PATRICK O'CONNOR, 6/24/08, Politico)

The Maryland Democrat shepherded a set of FISA amendments through the House last week — winning praise from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and even some in his party to who opposed the deal — but now finds himself subjected to a barrage of criticism from his party’s left.

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) called the House bill a “capitulation.” Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald called Hoyer an “evil, craven enabler of the Bush administration.” Firedoglake.com blogger Jane Hamsher — delivering the lowest possible blow from the liberal blogosphere — declared Hoyer “the new Joe Lieberman.”

Is that supposed to be an anti-Semitic crack?

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 24, 2008 9:33 AM