Lieberman Is A "No" On Public Option. Shocking, We Know… 0
Hmm…well, just knock me over with a feather:
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman has a bipartisan group of senators ready to help pass health care reform — minus a government-run insurance plan.
During a New Haven stop to support overall reform, Connecticut’s independent fourth-term senator gave his strongest statement to date opposing Democrats’ and President Obama’s call for a “public option” health care plan.
Ah, the last by-god bipartisan Senator in captivity working his magic again. Here is just one question–why is it, Senator, that whenever you start weaving your bipartisan webs, it is always to do PRECISELY what the Republican Party wants to be done?
Is there some glitch in your magical powers of bipartisanship that prevent you from bringing REPUBLICANS over to the merits of DEMOCRATIC initiatives?
Check this quote out from the Prince of Piety himself:
“If we create a public option, the public is going to end up paying for it,” Lieberman said following an hour-long confab with public-health experts at the Ashmun Street community center of the Monterey Homes public housing complex. “That’s a cost we can’t take on.”
Leave aside, for the moment, the fact that we’d have a few extra hundred billion for the cause of health care if we had elected NOT to pursue the war that Senator Lieberman dutifully was the head cheerleader for.
Is he REALLY saying that, at present, the public ISN’T paying any cost in maintaining the status quo?
Just another example why, according the folks at Progressive Punch, Senator Lieberman ranks 52nd on staying with progressives on what they characterize as “crucial votes.”
Every person beneath him on the list (with the possible exception of newly minted Colorado Senator Michael Bennet) has a fairly decent geographic or electoral argument to make for their occasional to common apostasy.
Lieberman has no such excuse. He never has. But he knows he is immune from any consequences for his disloyalty. Hell, when you can campaign for the other party against a sitting senator in your caucus in a presidential race, and still be welcomed back with open arms?
No one should be even mildly surprised that Joe Lieberman feels no twinges of fear when he consistently belittles Democratic policies and positions.
And that remains one of the great failings of the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate.
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