Marty Peretz Loves Joe Lieberman!  On Monday, we apologized to
New Republic publisher Marty Peretz, for asserting, without
evidence, that he likes Joe Lieberman, the famous asshole. We
now rescind that apology.  We also hope some of the people at
Peretz's magazine, the people who've been doing wonderful work
covering the political debate over health care reform and
advocating for good health care policy, explain to Mr. Peretz
that Lieberman did not have a minor political disagreement over
some "shaky provisions scripted by Harry Reid," but, in fact,
Lieberman did a complete 180 on a fairly uncontroversial (and
good) piece of policy that he'd supported, openly and vocally,
for literally years. And he did so in an attempt to hijack and
perhaps kill a bill that every principled Democrat supports
because they actually believe it will save tens of thousands of
lives (people who cover politics tend to forget that this is
supposed to be the point of politics, actually providing real
life people with tangible benefit