BY TOM TOMORROW
As mentioned earlier, I did the cover art for Alterman’s new book. A month or two ago he found out he was going on Colbert and asked me to mock up a special cover to present to the host. Unfortunately Colbert apparently nixed the idea pre-show, but I thought I’d at least share it with you all here.
(The Alterman segment is here.)
Update: it’s a scandal, I tell you, a scandal.
We shouldn’t get ahead of ourselves, and we should remain vigilant and increase the pressure, but this change in policy from Nancy Pelosi is the most encouraging thing I’ve seen in a long time.
I don’t know how I can put it any more clearly.
Eric Alterman is going to be on the Colbert Report tonight, discussing his new book (cover art by yours truly).
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman blasted the Democratic Party Sunday as protectionist, isolationist and hyperpartisan.
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,†Lieberman, I-Conn., said it is not the same party that made him its vice presidential candidate in 2000.
“It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was strong internationalists, strong on defense, pro-trade, pro-reform in our domestic government,†he said. “It’s been effectively taken over by a small group on the left of the party that is protectionist, isolationist and very, very hyperpartisan. So it pains me.â€
Lieberman, who won re-election to the Senate as an independent after losing the 2006 Connecticut Democratic primary anti-war candidate Ned Lamont, still caucuses with Democrats.
But he has endorsed Republican John McCain’s presidential bid, and said Sunday that among the three presidential candidates, McCain comes closest to reflecting the legacy of John F. Kennedy.
