August 9, 2006 4:28PM 

# Cavanaugh on Lieberman 

By [Justin Logan](https://www.cato.org/people/justin-logan) 

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Tim Cavanaugh’s short, acerbic [postmortem on Joe Lieberman](http://www.reason.com/hod/tc080906.shtml) is worth a read. Here’s a snippet:

> Lieberman is possibly the least libertarian member of the United States Senate: An infinite-state liberal who always found ways to oppose Social Security reform (which he allegedly supported), an absurd moral scold who co-sponsored the “Silver Sewer Awards” with William Bennett, a values buttinski who couldn’t resist attaching himself to Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, he was in the final analysis nothing but a fake, a tartuffe, a figure able to puff enough gas into every opportunistic action to make it seem like an example of high principle.

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