First, the deranged loon McKinney lost her seat in Congress.
Cynthia McKinney, the fiery Georgia congresswoman known for her conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11 attacks and the scuffle she had earlier this year with a U.S. Capitol police officer, lost a runoff election Tuesday for her district’s Democratic nomination.
Attorney Hank Johnson, a former county commissioner, won the nomination with 59 percent of the vote, surpassing McKinney by more than 11,000 votes.
McKinney, her state’s first black congresswoman, has long been controversial. Her suggestion that the Bush administration had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks helped galvanize opposition and she lost her seat in 2002, but won it again two years ago.
In her latest brouhaha in March, she struck a Capitol police officer who did not recognize her and tried to stop her from entering a House office building.
A grand jury in Washington declined to indict her, but she was forced to apologize before the House. She drew less than 50 percent of the vote in last month’s primary.
While it was useful for a while to have an absolute imbecile like her around, as it refelected so poorly on the Democratic Party, in the long run it’s a liability for the nation as a whole, and for her constituents. Good riddance to bad garbage as the saying goes.
And, Joe Lieberman has lost the Democratic primary in CT. While I like Lieberman, and it bothers me that the Democrats are so intolerant of anyone that doesn’t toe the party line, it’s good news for the GOP. Lieberman will run as an independent, and in a three way race the odds are good that the GOP candidate can win, or Lieberman will be re-elected. In either case, the Dems lose a seat in the Senate.
