...According to this handy Washington Post site, Lieberman missed 7.3% of the votes. Lieberman, however, is far from the worst Democrat in the Senate. Jay Rockefeller missed 23.3% of the votes. Jon Corzine missed 37.2% of the votes. Daniel Inouye missed 11.1% of the votes. Joe Biden missed 8.6% of the votes.

I assume this means Ned Lamont will be quickly praising George Allen (0.3% missed), Mike DeWine (0.3% missed), Jim Talent (0.3% missed) and John Kyl, (0.7% missed).

... The way the Lamont gang splits it, someone who teaches, even for a moment, is, by definition, a teacher. You were expecting a cobbler? If old Ned wants to call himself a teacher, he has a perfect right. After all, the dictionary definition of teacher is "someone who teaches."

Then again, putting yourself in a television commercial with of a group of enthusiastic young urban high school types, ostensibly your students, takes political license to the edge of the abyss would work here, but we've been in that hole for too long a time.

When it comes to who is and who is not a teacher, Lieberman's spinmeisters are strict constructionists.

In Lieberman-land, teachers are people who have been specifically trained, often at prestigious institutions of higher learning, to, well, teach. They are people who get paid to set up bulletin boards using colored paper, doilies and thumbtacks, most which they bought with their own money.

Are the people who assist elementary teachers with their classes teachers? No, they are teachers' aides. If they were teachers, they would be getting a living wage (though still not enough)...