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Lieberman on Public Option Health Care: 'I Have No Other Choice ... I've Got To Stop It'

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Methinks I smell a 2012 campiagn brewing.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2009-11-12 05:52|| 2009-11-12 05:52|| Front Page Top

#2 I've said it before and am happy to say it again. Even though ol' Joe and I would disagree on many things *cough*open borders*cough*, he's still the best approximation of a great and good man existing in either house of Congress today.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2009-11-12 08:48|| 2009-11-12 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd vote for Joe in a heartbeat. I think that even though he's a 'democrat', he's really closer to that compassionate conservatism that GW espoused. I don't agree with him on some issues, but he's a supporter of the military, he supports Israel (obviously) and he's pretty hawkish, he's also fairly fiscally conservative.

Posted by AllahHateMe 2009-11-12 09:23|| 2009-11-12 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Why "obviously"? Lookit Rahm.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-11-12 11:57|| 2009-11-12 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Lieberman is an "honorable adversary." Even if you're on the opposite side, he's an honest man and you have to respect him.

If the Dems keep bashing him the way they are--you should see what the Julius Streicher wanabees on Kos and DU say about him--he could jump to the other caucus.

Posted by Mike 2009-11-12 14:21|| 2009-11-12 14:21|| Front Page Top

#6 There are 58 Democrats in the Senate and 40 Republicans the two Independents are Bernard Sanders of Vermont and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. Without Liebermans support, the Democrats could not get cloture to end debate and bring the bill to the Senate floor for a vote.

Sanders was a Donk and it is hard to tell how he might vote. If the "reconciliation" option is invoked, debate (and fillibustering) will be limited. Health care will pass with a majority if there are not enough Democrats who are opposed to this albatross. The 2010 elections might limit the effects of this Senate arm-twisting. Is it one third of the Senate that is up for re-election?

Pelosi says maybe the voters will get a Christmas present for Christmas. This is not a Christmas present Queen Nancy. This country won't recover from this legislation--maybe that is the plan.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-11-12 14:51|| 2009-11-12 14:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Sanders was a Donk who left for the Socia1ists. The most Marxist Senators by rank in the last congress were:
1. Obama
2. Sanders
3. Biden

If Sanders had stayed in the Democratic Party then he would be VP today.

Posted by ed 2009-11-12 15:50|| 2009-11-12 15:50|| Front Page Top

#8 IMPO, we need more "Reagan Democrats" and "Lieberman Republicans".

Posted by eltoroverde 2009-11-12 16:22|| 2009-11-12 16:22|| Front Page Top

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