A four year-old named Isaac Chotiner, who posts on The New Republic’s blog, has declared Joe Lieberman an “apparatchik” because Lieberman supports the 21,000 troop surge even though he said nice things about the initial 30,000 troop-surge proposal. Mr. Chotiner can be forgiven his inability to comprehend this, as he has only recently switched to pull-ups. But maybe one of the six year-olds over there could enlighten him as to the meaning of the word “apparatchik” and why Lieberman, who fits in with no party, is almost exactly the opposite of one. After all, if you’re going to run an intellectual nursery school, you should do a little educating along with playtime, naptime, and snack.