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Lieberman Won't Filibuster After All
A week after declaring that he would help a Republican filibuster of Democrat-sponsored health-care legislation if there were a public option, Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has apparently signaled privately to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) that he will not block a vote. Sources told The Hill that Lieberman has affirmed that he will vote with Democrats to end the debate, and his threat of filibuster is likely a tactic to "get some stuff for himself"—or his constituents, including several major insurance companies based out of Connecticut. Democrats want Lieberman's support because it likely represents the necessary 60th vote that would end debate in the Senate, and many supporters of health-care reform say that he will vote with Democrats when the time comes, despite his statements to the contrary. Says Reid, simply: "I trust Sen. Joe Lieberman."
Desertpenguin
Like I said last week to all the braying right-wingers:
Don't count your chickens before they've voted.
ThinkAgain
Don't count your sell outs before they're voted.... sounds like old Joe is getting some goodies for those big insurance companies in his state. Aren't they supposed to be the bad guys?
LookintoDelight
Reid was heard to mutter, under his breath, ............"as far as I can throw him."
AlanD2
That's politics, ThinkAgain.
Too bad that Republicans have decided to stop playing the game and just say "no" instead.
hithere3
Whatever, dude. I said it first!
Nonplussed
THIS REPORT IS FALSE.
FYI.
LostPatriot
Liberman represents the insurance industry and he has thrown the sheeple a sucker punch. The public option is very close to meaninglless and little more than food for the sheeple who think that the public option is "single payer". The public option amounts to little or nothing as far as helping the citizenry of this country. It is, in effect, it is a "sucker punch" thrown by the insurance industry at the sheeple. Liberman's part in this phony scare tactic is to give emotional relief to the sheeple. The insurance industry wins again. Single payer insurance is the only viable/sensible option available to this country that would ever help; the insurance industry controls the congress and will not allow single payer. Liberman continues to work for the insurance cartel and the Baucus/Obama insurance debacle will continue to feed the insurance cartel and we, the public, are being screwed again by the fascists.
Temper
It's so cute to think of you saying all that in a clown costume and makeup.
wfleet
Just a reminder, Joe -- a 9-11 of dead, cherished Americans will perish by this Thanksgiving for no other determining factor than lack of health coverage.
7000 dead by Christmas. 19,000 dead by Easter. 360,000 dead since 9-11. 2,700,000 uselessly dead in the 60-year grotesquely failed "for-profit" free market experiment in health care delivery. ( http://tinyurl.com/l7cy8u )
Is this the beloved community we dream of America becoming?
This is not a partisan issue. It is a human issue. Wake up your heart.
NewyorkerR
Hahahahaha. that is funny. one question do you get your check on or before the first of the month?
connie47
Wow, you are either one sick **** or a poseur, a person of no morals who posts nothing but red meat, hoping people will take the bait.
NewyorkerR
I was thinking the same thing about you, connie47. you couldn't possibly believe what you say..
connie47
Interesting, since you're new and I've barely posted since you've been here. Could it be you're one of those whose account got closed by TDB, so in desperation you got a new email address so you could continue to post?
NewyorkerR
ya that must be it connie.
Spartann
Hey connie... Quit your harping ... It only takes a couple of postings by you to figure out you're a one note hannah.... To hell with "Interesting", comedy reigns supreme here. Right now, what's funniest of all, you just admitted to being a hall monitor for TDB.
connie47
harping
halll monitor
hannah
Real substance to your posts. Or did you, like newyorkerR, just come here to snark?
Spartann
See what I mean....You just proved me right ..... tooooo funny
sippewissett
Great slur, NewrokerR. Instead of debating on facts and ideas, just use slander. So much easier -- and lazier.
LeftCoastRightBrain
"7000 dead by Christmas. 19,000 dead by Easter."
What total nonsense. They may die, but it's not simply because they don't have health insurance. People, lots of them, die every die. It's part of the life cycle. OHHHHH the big bad insurance companies are out to kill you. LOL
Oh, and my heart is fine, thanks and wide awake.
aluxeterna
LeftCoastWrongBrain
The numbers are referring to those who die of diseases that are wholy preventable, but which citizens of our great nation could not afford to take care of. We're not talking about the inevitability of death here, rather, anything but. Or did I miss the part in The Lion King when the "Circle of Life" is closed by denial of coverage and too-high premiums?
btw, Is it just me, or is it a little Galt in here today?
Housebird
Joseph Lieberman should be in prison for his promotion of the Iraq "War".
korkie
There a special cell waiting for his betraying ass!
kdj-kdj
Really?
LeftCoastRightBrain
Right. Great view of the world and life in general.
Granite
He didn't think this through before he started grandstanding. After he announced he was going to filibuster, a few articles were written highlighting his wife involvement with the healthcare industry.
Oops, Joe, time to try to sneak away quietly and hope no one notices.
winston1
Joe is probably being strong-armed by obama and Reid, I'm sure the threat of removing Joe from being chairman of Homeland Sesurity Committee. Some one is putting pressure on him.
korkie
I think the insurance companies lining Joe's pockets with $$$ were the ones strong arming him. He is a weak man and really should move over to the party that suits his lying, posturing, betraying personality ... The Republicans.
hithere3
Uh... duh?
Are you new to politics or something? Do you think voting members of Congress go about their days skipping in the daisies and whistling happy songs?
Yes, someone is putting pressure on him. What did you expect?
sippewissett
Next up: the voters put pressure on Lieberman -- right out of office. He has substituted expedience for vision and plaform. Whatever keeps him in office is where he goes. "Self-serving" is a euphemism.
joycehelene
Let Joe keep his chairmanship only until the health care vote is over then boot him out of that job just as soon as they can, who needs a turncoat like him. I hope he also gets booted out of the Senate when his turn is up!
Progressive2
There's a God.
kdj-kdj
Nope.
EgyptSteve
Jeebus, who knows what to believe now? Was he telling the truth about his treachery, or is he lying now about his loyalty? Either way, you can't trust him farther than you can throw a giant sack of AIPAC/AETNA.
sonofloud
"and his threat of filibuster is likely a tactic to "get some stuff for himself"-or his constituents, including several major insurance companies based out of Connecticut".........otherwise known as blackmail.
ThinkAgain
blackmail is otherwise known as politics
sonofloud
lol so true, government by blackmail
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n--Y--grumpyguywinston1
Al Gore is on Morning Joe doing an infomercial on global warming, check out the article in the NY Time's and see the big bucks this snake oil doctor has made with his BS.
bobj72
"Permanent wince"; You've "chalked this one up" as a lost, or is this your effort to "Change The Subject???"
connie47
And this has what to do with the article about Joe Lieberman?
winston1
"Two of a kind" Both lying weasels.
co-intheknow
Ah, whiney is stupid on Tuesdays, too. c'mon honey - get with the program, this thread is about Joe "Turncoat" Lieberman. Gore isn't mentioned at all and your poor attempt to hijack this thread as a tribute to one of the voices in your head will not work.
Try to stay on topic or go back to your koolaid and oxy-rush combo and leave the commenting to the grown-ups.
winston1
co Do you run this blog. Then shut the hell up! What is it with you libbies you can go off the beaten path to make your comments. Does the truth hurt about Al Gore living like an elitist millionare Democrat, just like those CEO's you hate so much. In reality this sweaty ex VP is doing the same thing you hate about CEO's are will be doing, when Crap And Trade goes thru. Global warming all LIES!
kdj-kdj
LOL winnie!!!
You should drop the guard more sometimes... here you are actually hitting the 'reply' link and typing as if you are not functionally illiterate.
BRAVO!!!
co-intheknow
Thank you, kdj - your comments are better than I could have done.
I can just imagine dear whiney, all pissed of, spittle flying from her mouth while she yells out what she's typing in her 'righteous' anger over being criticized.
Off topic or not, her pissy post is great for a laugh and to pity her dearth of grammatical knowledge.
MaliciousDisorder
So you see, you can't count on any democrat to stick to his word.
hithere3
Can you explain to me why conservatives are so dumb? It seems almost congenital.
Not only is Lieberman not a Democrat, but you spelled Democrat with a lowercase "d," meaning you just chastised every proponent of democracy worldwide as honorless.
hfb1053
Joe is an Independent, Mal. Try and keep up.
Johnnyappleseed
Honor among thieves....anon.
matthewbenzor
I knew it, just politics, He can't be trusted as Harry Reid would like me to believe, This could hurt Harry in his home state, Backing Joe who threatened to "NOT" give Nevada Healthcare reform and those who need it...........! Harry does'nt realize it but it could hurt his race...........! JOE is a SNAKE
kdj-kdj
A politician being political?
Say it ain't so!
LeftCoastRightBrain
I think you're confused. It's Harry the Snake, as he's known on Vegas.
shle896
I'm glad somebody trusts Lieberman because I sure don't. That man is all over the map with his politics.. and politics is exactly what it is all about for him. He needs to "shit or get off the pot" and get some backbone and stand up for what he believes in - whatever THAT is!
I guess that all depends on who he is pandering to at the moment.. what position is most advantageous for him and who is supporting him financially. He embodies everything I loathe in a politician.
briansays
Trust but verify
newz4i
Do we say bravado or bravo?
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