Forget delaying the bill. Just kill it. It’s been ruined and individual mandates are bad idea.

hello. when do the spending clowns in the Capitol send me my medical voucher for the operation i need? when do i get to use my social security number as a credit card? what is a health care bill that does nothing to improve the state of medical practise in our country, but costs our grandchildren gazillions of dollars? can i be the health czar? when will they be successful in spreading a cataclysmic pandemic? i pray the celebrity signs this one.

RE ABC: “The central tenets of that compromise reached last week among Democrats were stripped from the bill because of the objections of independent Sen. Joe Lieberman . . .  who said he would not support the legislation if it contained that option “because it reportedly has some of the same infirmities that the public option did.”

Lieberman is more than dishonest – he is amoral. His obstructionist behavior in regard to healthcare for uninsured Americans is related to one thing only – his pro Israel advocacy. I believe Robert Parry is very much on target in his recent OpEd article:  “Is Joe Lieberman Protecting Israel?”

“. . . Since the start of Obama’s presidency, Israel’s hawkish Likud government has made no secret of its concern that Obama might pressure it into making territorial and other concessions to the Palestinians and Syria to secure a Mideast peace agreement.

In Washington, the still-influential neocons also have been demanding that Obama continue Bush’s belligerent policies and side with Israel in a hard-line approach to Iran.

In that sense, Lieberman and the neocons have much in common with Republicans, such as Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, who declared in July that “If we’re able to stop Obama on this [health reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”

A broken Obama could be easier to manipulate regarding Mideast peace talks and Iran. . . .

A hobbled Obama won’t be able to push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt expansion of West Bank settlements or to take other steps that might lead to a Palestinian state. Obama also could be pushed around himself if Israel itself an undeclared nuclear power decides to launch airstrikes
against Iran’s nuclear facilities.”

http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Is-Joe-Lieberman-Protectin-by-Robert-Parry-091215-359.html