Lieberman: Public do not support the Public Option

Lieberman was for Privatizing Medicare too (0.00 / 0)

Before he was against it.

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by: ctkeith @ Tue Sep 08, 2009 at 20:17:53 PM UTC

Context for Lieberman's Comments on Health Care (0.00 / 0)

(1) Hadassah Lieberman's work provides context -- and also a conflict of interest -- for anything Lieberman has to say about health care.

(2) Most informed Connecticut residents have long since dispaired of contacting Lieberman about anything. He's too self-interested to pay attention to constituents, and it's hard to know what other people are thinking when you spend most of your time looking in the mirror.

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by: Ann Galloway @ Tue Sep 08, 2009 at 20:59:28 PM UTC

Not just Hadassah. Joe Lieberman works for Cigna, Aetna ... (0.00 / 0)

... and a bunch of other health care companies who have donated more than $2 million to his campaign over the years.  

Anytime Lieberman is quoted on health care issues, the media should add this disclaimer: "Joe Lieberman, who has received more than $2 million in campaign contributions from the health care industry..."

But since the media is also heavily supported by the health care industry, that's a disclaimer you'll never see.

And you're right, CT voters know Lieberman is full of crap anyway.

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by: CaptCT @ Wed Sep 09, 2009 at 17:16:32 PM UTC

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It's a Wonder (0.00 / 0)

Senator Lieberman seems to have lost his compass. The opinion polls be damned. And yes, "in March 2005, Hadassah was hired by Hill & Knowlton as 'senior counselor' in the firm's 'health care and pharmaceuticals practice.' Hadassah's close relationship with pharmaceutical and healthcare corporations while her husband introduced legislation benefiting these exact companies has raised questions about improprieties and conflict of interest." [source: Wikipedia]

Why the Senator remains in a position of power is nearly unfathomable.

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by: Route66 @ Wed Sep 09, 2009 at 06:16:53 AM UTC

Hardly Unfathomable . . . . (0.00 / 0)

The Dems have no backbone.  Bipartisanship has been dead for years; yet the dream continues to trump reality. Let's hope that Obama gets a belated 3 a.m. wake-up call and (among other things) tells Harry Reid to kick ass. Lieberman, Baucus and others of their ilk should be relegated to the back benches!

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by: Ann Galloway @ Wed Sep 09, 2009 at 10:10:02 AM UTC

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Three More Years of this Guy? (0.00 / 0)

Can he be any more out of touch with his constituents?

Already, Lieberman has been dead wrong about invading Iraq, put his personal ambitions ahead of his party, he supported the wrong person to lead this nation, and his hawkish viewpoints on defending Israel endanger the peace process in the Middle East... And I'm not even going to begin talking about what he's said about Iran.

But now he ignores both national and local polls to push this garbage that tax payers will ultimately pay for a government option. Well, guess what, Mr. Lieberman: taxpayers are paying through their teeth for insufficient coverage - to private companies.

Get with the program, Senator: Americans would rather risk paying more taxes for a government-run, universally inclusive program than pay the already rising costs for the privately-run death panels we've grown to hate.

On days like these, I really, really, REALLY wish we had the power to recall our federally elected officials. And I can't wait to hear Sen Lieberman's opinion on the Baucus "compromise," which includes penalizing working-class families who don't get insurance with large fines.

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by: ChanceKell @ Wed Sep 09, 2009 at 16:32:01 PM UTC

What he's up to (0.00 / 0)

Let's face it.  Lieberman is going to spend the remainder of his term auditioning for the lobbying / think tank (Hoover Institute) / media (Fox News) / "academic" job he will be taking when the voters finally end this embarrassment to the State.  In any of those jobs a prerequisite is that he get a lot of face time on TV and be able to talk endlessly, regardless how little sense he makes.  As an added resume enhancement, he shows he can act like he's being sincere while hypocritically dancing to the tune of his sponsors.  The rightwing intelligentia he will be entering likes nothing more than someone who knows he is bought and paid for.

In the mean time he will allow us to relive some of the low points of Connecticut Senate history.  His out-of-touchness is reminiscent (but more malignant) than that of Frederic C. Walcott.  His willingness to curry favor with foreign interests at the expense of American interest almost rivals Prescott Bush.  His inability to see the difference between moderation and cravenness reminds one of Isaac Toucey.  He would top Uriah Tracy for most dangerously provocative Senator from Connecticut -- if anyone every took Joe seriously. But probably the Senator he most resembles is James Hillhouse -- someone who contributed essentially nothing but nevertheless held himself in the highest esteem.  

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by: dkfennell @ Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 01:39:43 AM UTC

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Lie berman, as usual (0.00 / 0)

Joe Lie berman is the best reason we have for a law allowing us to recall elected officials. Many other states have this provision in their laws and it serves to remove the corrupt deadwood that clog the Government of We the People.

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by: CV @ Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 12:56:00 PM UTC

No (0.00 / 0)

It's not true that "many other states" have recall provisions for Federal officials -- only one state (Arizona) does, and it only passes Constitutional muster because it's voluntary (the official needs to opt-in to being recalled if certain conditions are met.)

Lieberman isn't a case study for why recalls should be permitted. He's a spectacular demonstration of why voters -- especially progressive voters -- should take their votes more seriously in the first place.  

–7.25 / –7.28 | http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tw...

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by: mattw @ Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 15:10:57 PM UTC

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This is why they are going to use reconciliation (0.00 / 0)

Snowe is a far more reliable vote for any Democratic plan than this wanker. I didn't think Lieberman could sink any lower but trying to block healthcare reform ('he's with us on everything but the war' - Harry 'Not Prescient' Reid) is pretty low. He's got a nice trifecta going with being a warmonger/calling out Ned Lamont for hanging around black people/blocking healthcare. Joe Lieberman is a real prince.

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by: joejoejoe @ Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 16:22:39 PM UTC

Joe (0.00 / 0)

 Joe is full of  shyt....the public  supports  a public  option in every poll that  I have seen.

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by: BruceRubenstein2 @ Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 18:11:18 PM UTC

Lieberman should vote for cloture on the Repuke filibuster (0.00 / 0)

just like he did with the Alito nomination.  Then, as long as we have 50 senators + Biden, he can vote with the Repukes.

I hope Mass. changes their law to send an interim senator before their January election.  We need that vote.

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by: Larkspur @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 03:56:02 AM UTC