What's liberals' big idea? Who cares?  Jonah Goldberg  7/14/2006
12:01:00 AM - Jonah Goldberg      Alas, Chait has it right:
"Feh."   It's also nonsense to say this is about "the people"
vs. "the establishment." Lieberman's a three-term junior
senator. Ted Kennedy, scion of America's leading liberal
dynasty, has been in the Senate 26 years longer. Is he not the
establishment? Robert Byrd of West Virginia has been in the
Senate since the mid-Jurassic period. That old, calcified
chewing gum stuck underneath the establishment's chair? He put
it there. But while Kennedy and Byrd (and Gore, Howard Dean,
John Kerry and Hillary Clinton) outrank Lieberman in
establishment credentials, they arouse little ire from the Net-
mob because they say what the throng wants to hear. (Hillary is
a slight exception.) "The establishment" is just code for
"people we don't like."  The hawk-vs.-dove analysis has similar
weaknesses. The netroots crowd is passionately antiwar, while
Lieberman supports the war. But there are other Iraq w