Lieberman’s Triple Flip
Lieberman’s Triple Flip
Sen. Joe Lieberman, 5/4/98:
If we can manage the transition, we have a chance to not only do something right, but to give people more confidence about what their retirement years would be like. Of course, it also dramatically increases our savings rate, which has to be good for our economy overall. Not everybody supports this….I think in the end that individual control of part of the retirement/Social Security funds has to happen.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, 10/5/00:
For a while I was drilling into this idea of privatization of Social Security. It requires taking as much as a trillion dollars out of the Social Security fund. The independent analysts have said that would put the fund out of money in 2023, or if it’s not out of money, benefits will have to be cut by over 50%. That’s just not worth doing.
Washington Post, 2/28/05:
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has declared that Senate Democrats are united in their opposition to personal accounts carved out of Social Security…Despite Reid’s assertion, however, several moderate Democrats have not ruled out backing a more modest version of the president’s plan. Some of these centrists, such as Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., have been meeting with Republican colleagues to discuss whether there is a middle ground.
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Who can we get to take this guy down the next time he runs. He is an embarassment.
February 28th, 2005 at 5:10 pmWay to go, Joe!!!!!
February 28th, 2005 at 6:01 pmLieberman Can Still Think For Himself
February 28th, 2005 at 6:18 pmLieberman can still think for himself
The thing with Liberman is he’s an old fashioned conservative. He’d be the best Republican in the party and that’s the truth…..
February 28th, 2005 at 9:56 pmSen Lowell Wieker was a thorn in the Republican’s side for years. Sen Lieberman’s a thorn for the Democrats. Perhaps Conn. will get it right someday.
March 1st, 2005 at 7:00 amIt all makes me wonder how he plays to the people in Conn….
March 1st, 2005 at 10:37 amWait a minute. You actually have people in Congress that are willing to cross party lines and try to come to an agreement and understanding on an issue? And some people are upset about that? And they’re also upset about conflicting comments over a 6-7 year period? Thank the lord that EVERYONE’s statements aren’t permanently archived for future rebuttal and ridicule! Oh I almost forgot, it must be Bush’s fault.
March 1st, 2005 at 2:55 pmJim - The House leadership has already stated that under no circumstances will they raise the cap on the SSI tax from the current $89,000.
With that in mind, what kind of bargaining can be had when one side effectivly says the other side is the only one that is going to give in? I mean, that isn’t bargaining. So your parody while well meaning is completely appropriate if you were to say the same things to the repub side.
March 1st, 2005 at 3:36 pmKindness, thank you for the intellectual rebuttal. I just get a little miffed when one side (Judd in this case) constantly arranges the facts to support a statement of discussion without taking the entire problem into context. I agree 100% that the same thing could be said to and about the republican side as well. Another problem I think about a lot is the amount of anger, emotion and sometimes vile that people have for the President. It’s probably because that’s one of the few positions in government where everyone supposedly has a say. Regarding Bush, I’m know he’s not perfect but if you really want to make a change then go after Congress because aren’t they the ones that make the laws anyway?
March 2nd, 2005 at 9:02 am