"The question is, do I trust Senator Lieberman? The answer is, yes, I trust Senator Lieberman.... We're looking forward, we're not looking back. We're not looking back at the 95 filibusters that were conducted, those are something that took place in the past. We're looking forward to the future, a future that we believe sets a new tone for America."
- Majority Leader Harry Reid, on the decision not to strip Sen. Lieberman's committee chairmanship, November 18, 2008 (video begins at 3:30 below)
Good thing we bent over backwards to keep him in the caucus. Otherwise he might be doing crazy things like threatening to join a Republican filibuster on health care reform, fifteen years after he played an integral role in... defeating health care reform.
Yesterday, Politico had yet another Lieberman response to the same question:
"Not vote for cloture? I wouldn't rule that possibility out - not at all," said Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who caucuses with the Democrats.
Over 85,000 people have signed the Progressive Campaign Change Committee's petition to Harry Reid demanding that:
"Any Democratic senators who support a Republican attempt to block a vote on health care reform should be stripped of their leadership titles. Americans deserve a clean up-or-down vote on health care."
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