Joe Lieberman is the greatest Senator who ever lived, and Hillary Clinton is an idiot. [View All]

Got your attention? Good. Because I want to make a point about this whole Dean/Emmanuel pissing contest.

Howard Dean or Rahm Emmanuel did not "win" this election for us. The people who won this election for us are the candidates who ran great campaigns, their staffers who kept shit together through the dark times, their volunteers on the ground, and everyone else who donated time or effort in some way to help them win. These people constitute an entirely new generation of congressmen and women, senators, staffers, grassroots organizers, precinct captains, donors, and Democrats who are going to change the face of the Democratic party in DC for the better. They do not come tainted with decades of addiction to power, preconceived notions of the right and wrong way to do things, or stale alliances that put themselves ahead of their constituentes. They are, in short, exactly the new blood the Democratic party needs in order to win not just 2008, but 2010, 2012 and beyond. These people are going to be with us for a while. Many of them will go on to assume positions of power within the party. And when that happens, it's not going to matter worth a damn whether Dean or Emmanuel was perceived as the mastermind behind the 2006 tidal wave.

I just think it's important to give credit where credit is due. My hat is off to each and every one of these people. What they, and we, have created is truly something special in American political history.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled Dean/Emmanuel Lieberman/Lamont netroots/DLC flame wars.