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Lieberman Looms Large in Senate Health DebatePosted on Dec 14, 2009
If it didn’t look like Senate Democrats were going to face some serious obstacles in passing health care reform legislation, Sen. Joe Lieberman is poised and ready to remind them, as he proved this past weekend with his ongoing rumblings to the press about joining the apparently inevitable Republican filibuster. Sen. Harry Reid and his cohort have their work cut out for them. —KA
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By ben famous, December 15, 2009 at 5:36 pm Link to this comment
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Looks like Lieberman is up to his antics again…
Report thisBy Garo, December 15, 2009 at 9:43 am Link to this comment
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Senator Joe Lieberman is totally controlled by his wife whose name is Hadassah.
Hadassah work for one of the largest insurance company for health care in the U.S.
It certainly needs no brainer to figure out what is the real cause behind his bombastic bravado in joining the Republican Senators who are fighting the Democrat’s health reform bill with public option by their rhetorical tongues,savagery teeth,greedy eyes and totally unacceptable phony positions which serve only the big sharks of Wall Street.
Let the traitor,Joe Lieberman,join his Republican phonies and let him filibuster with his Republican USERS on the Senate floor so that the American people of Main Streets can see what kind of destructive Senators they have and take it from there to throw the bumies out of the Senate and elect decent candidates who put the interest of the underdogs of Main Streets ahead of the interest of the big sharks of Wall Street.
Meanwhile,strip the Senate Chairmanship of Homeland Security Committee from the traitor and all other fringe benefits associated with it. Isolate the bastard and let him,along with his Hadassah,continue to be subservients to their Masters,the greedy sharks of big health insurance companies and the rest of the greedy sharks of Wall Street. When their Masters,the big sharks,find them no longer useful,they will
trash them.
One poster has suggested to stop “funding for the electric boat contracts(submarines)”. I smell that this item is very dear to Lieberman. Stop the funding to teach him a small lesson. Can the Democratic majority in the Senate,at least,do that?
If the Democrats fail to do all of the above and more,they are inept,incompetent and certainly a bunch of f fools.
Where is Represntative Alen Greyson of Florida to give them hell? Alen,where are you? Please.
Report thisBy James Goodson, December 15, 2009 at 9:32 am Link to this comment
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The Democrats cannot govern either. Dumb ASSES
Report thisBy msgmi, December 15, 2009 at 9:16 am Link to this comment
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Believe it or not, Joe, the Main Street wannabe hero, was on the Gore ticket not too long ago. The CT electorate was fooled by the fool.
Report thisBy idarad, December 14, 2009 at 8:20 pm Link to this comment
Joe Lierman - When will the Dems ever learn - oh never mind. To bad they don’t shoot themselves in the foot while it is still in their mouth. Lierman is a perfect example of a traitor…... when one puts themselves above the constitution and the people, when they are sworn to protect both, then they are traitors. Put the bastard on trial…. hopefully convict him and do what they haven’t done to a traitor in 60 years…
Report thisBy SteveL, December 14, 2009 at 5:57 pm Link to this comment
Cut the funding for Electric Boat (the submarine works we don’t need) and all of
Report thisthe other Lieberman favorite pork barrel projects. Bush did this to get
Lieberman’s attention and it will work again.
By Wellescent Health Blog, December 14, 2009 at 2:44 pm Link to this comment
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Though Reid may have known of the objections that Leiberman has to the bill, it still leaves him with little capacity to make changes to accommodate Lieberman given that doing so would alienate many Democrats who are pushing for something akin to a public option. It really is quite a difficult road that Reid has to follow in order to reach some consensus that appeases all of the different interests within the party.
Report thisBy Bud, December 14, 2009 at 2:16 pm Link to this comment
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Hey Harry Reid,grow a set of balls,and tell “Joe the Ho” to go to hell and join his scum sucking friends on the other side of the aisle.Strip the SOB of his chairmanship,and all the funding for the electric boat contracts.(submarines)This BASTARD is single handedly destroying the democratic party.Use reconciliation NOW!!!!!
Report thisBy G.Anderson, December 14, 2009 at 1:46 pm Link to this comment
Isn’t Lie bermans wife highly paid to lobby for the health industry?
So if reconcilliation is inevitable, why not go for it, and vote for a full public option?
The Corporate Right, i.e. the Republican party will never support anything but a big payday for their owners.
Report thisBy samosamo, December 14, 2009 at 1:31 pm Link to this comment
Why is lieberman running the senate? I know reid is a plate of grease and a load of crap but between the both of them they are doing fine just letting everything languish in limbo for the insurance companies to continue ‘raking’ in the profits with nothing in return for those who need medical care. Now congress must surely lead the nation as the worst run legislative body without a jot of intentions of helping or working for the people that elected them.
Report thisBy Baronscarpia, December 14, 2009 at 12:55 pm Link to this comment
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“Sen. Harry Reid and his cohort have their work cut out for them”
Yes, and he it is:
1) Grow a set of balls and a spine. Now.
Report this2) Throw that miserable rat turd Lieberman out of their caucus, take away his committee chairmanship, and tell the public that he’s been told to go play with his Republican friends.
3) Tell the Republicans “If you oppose the health care bill the majority of Democrat Senators support, then do what you have to do. Vote against it. If you feel you need to filibuster, then filibuster, but it’s going to have to be done on the floor of the Senate. If you don’t know how it’s done, watch Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”
4) Tell the American electorate that the Republicans are holding up all of the business of government because they sleep with big business, and if they want government that’s on their side they’re going to have to elect more Democrats in 2010.