Joe Lieberman vs. Howard Dean

Score one for Lieberman, read Jacob Levy's comparison of the two on economic policy. Dean recently called for the "re-regulation of business", Lieberman countered with the following:

"Howard Dean doesn't understand how Bill Clinton created 22 million jobs in 8 years. By responsibly deregulating markets, Bill Clinton allowed exporters to sell more American products to foreign markets and brought competition to existing monopolies.

"Howard Dean would usher in a new era of big government with his re-regulation proposal. He would give us a treacherous trifecta of policies that turn back the economic clock: new trade barriers, a larger tax burden on our middle class, and now bigger bureaucracy. Either he doesn't know how to turn the economy around, or this is another reckless mistake.

"We need to toughen the integrity of our marketplace, put real enforcers in regulatory posts, and put wrongdoers in jail. We don't need to cripple the economy with a whole new set of broad re-regulation as Howard Dean proposes."

It is a shame that Lieberman has no chance within the Democratic party.