Lieberman Pledges To Filibuster House Bill: The Public Option Is ‘Unnecessary’
Lieberman Pledges To Filibuster House Bill: The Public Option Is ‘Unnecessary’
This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) about the House’s historic passage of health care legislation last night. Lieberman said that as a “matter of conscience,” he will join a Republican filibuster if a public option — which has supposedly been put forward “by people who really want the government to take over all of health insurance” — is also included in the bill that goes before the Senate:
LIEBERMAN: A public option plan is unnecessary. It has been put forward, I’m convinced, by people who really want the government to take over all of health insurance. They’ve got a right to do that; I think that would be wrong.
But worse than that, we have a problem even greater than the health insurance problems, and that is a debt — $12 trillion today, projected to be $21 trillion in 10 years.
WALLACE: So at this point, I take it, you’re a “no” vote in the Senate?
LIEBERMAN: If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote because I believe debt can break America and send us into a recession that’s worse than the one we’re fighting our way out of today. I don’t want to do that to our children and grandchildren.
Watch it:
Late last month, Lieberman told reporters that he was planning to filibuster a public option. But a few days later, the Hill reported that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office was confident Lieberman would “vote with Democrats in the necessary procedural vote to end debate, perhaps with intentions to change the bill.” Today, Lieberman made it clear where he stands.
It isn’t really Lieberman’s “conscience” that is driving him to oppose the public option — more likely it’s his ego (since he told reporters that he likes feeling “relevant“). After all, Lieberman opposed the Senate Finance Committee bill even though it didn’t have a public option, and in 1994, his “conscience” told him that the filibuster was “unfair” and shouldn’t be used to block major legislation. He has also asserted that the public option would raise premiums and increase the debt, even though the Congressional Budget Office has disputed those claims. Furthermore, 60 percent of his constituents support a public option, but Lieberman has dismissed them as just being “confused.”
Transcript:
WALLACE: The House passed health care. What do you think of the bill they passed, and do you still intend — if there is a public option and there is this tax on so-called cadillac health plans — will you support a Republican filibuster on final passage in the Senate?
LIEBERMAN: Well, there’s some good things in House-passed plan. I think we ought to do health care reform this year to deal with the two great problems that President Obama and others have talked about. There are unsustainable continuing increases in the cost of health care; we’ve got to stop that. And there are millions of Americans who don’t have health insurance.
But I’m afraid our colleagues in the House added a lot onto that that subtract from the genuine purposes of health care reform, and one was to create a public option plan. A public option plan is unnecessary. It has been put forward, I’m convinced, by people who really want the government to take over all of health insurance. They’ve got a right to do that; I think that would be wrong.
But worse than that, we have a problem even greater than the health insurance problems, and that is a debt — $12 trillion today, projected to be $21 trillion in 10 years.
WALLACE: So at this point, I take it, you’re a “no” vote in the Senate?
LIEBERMAN: If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote because I believe debt can break America and send us into a recession that’s worse than the one we’re fighting our way out of today. I don’t want to do that to our children and grandchildren.
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The letter I’ve already sent to my senator:
Dear Senator Lieberman,
November 8th, 2009 at 10:27 amAs a member of your constituency I find it disturbing that you would go against the wishes of the people you were elected to represent. Your threatening to filibuster any bill with a public option is in direct conflict to the wishes of the people of the state of Connecticut, whom you were elected to represent.
Clearly, the wishes of the insurance industry in Hartford; which would benefit from your myopic vision of healthcare reform, take precedence over the wishes of your constituents. Keep in mind, Senator Lieberman it is the residents of the state of Connecticut, not the healthcare industry who elected you into office and who will ultimately decide whether you return to Washington D.C. for another term.
Sincerely,
Lieberman is unnecessary and unwanted. He’s the most unpopular human since Adolf Hitler.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:27 amThis is bacause his insurance-company-whore wife sucks cash from the industry.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:28 amLIEberman loves:
His ego first.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:33 amCash is second.
Israel is third.
The people of CT aren’t on the list.
on Face the Nation now, lindsthy graham is also on board…
says the public option will “destroy private insurance”…
ok then… we know of their loyalties for sure…
it’s not “We the People”.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:36 amAnd this from the same bastard who is ever willing to spend 1 or 2 or even 5 trillion to go into another endless war in the Middle-East, this time against Iran.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:36 amwhat i’d like to know is this:
November 8th, 2009 at 10:36 amdoes senator lieberman have the same “moral conviction” knowing our tax money is going to universal healthcare in israel via our foreign aid dollars?
10 jokes about Joe Lieberman & his threat to filibuster any health care bill which includes a public option
Number 4. Joe Lieberman is on a lifeboat with a young woman who was denied insurance coverage because she was raped, a middle-class guy who can’t afford his premiums, and a sickly child. He stabs them all in the back.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:37 amMe thinks that Joey might be forgetting that all these wars and aid to Zion that he pimps cost money too.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:37 amOh, and how convenient to have several major health insurance companies, including Hartford, right there in his state.
I notice the picture says he is on FAUX. What can you expect him to say? These guys are pawns of the insurance lobby.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:42 amBesides lieberman being a hypocritical flip flopper (with his earlier call for a public option) He wouldn’t think twice about borrowing billions for a war against Iran. He should lose any high ranking spots and the dems should not caucus with him.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:43 am“Health Care Reform” is just any strawman argument Republicans must make because conservative and Republican ideas are failures at every turn. Hey Joe, who was right about Iraq? You or MoveOn? Lieberman is on the wrong side of the health care debate, too.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:46 amthe democratic leadership in the senate need to be very clear whilst dealing with this whiny-assed seasel,
fillibuster-and-you-WILL-lose-your-chairmanship-on-the-homeland-security-committee
November 8th, 2009 at 10:47 amAs appalling as Smokin’ Joe’s comments on health care reform were, I was even more offended by his introduction of the new knee-jerk reactionary meme — “the Fort Hood massacre is the first act of Islamic terrorism on U.S. soil since 9-11″.
Mark my words, you will be hearing this repeated by Limpballs, BeckyBoy, Little Seanie Vanity, Darth Cheney and FoxSnooze for months and months. After all, it only took ten minutes for Britty Hume and Billy the Bloody to repeat it during the “expert (?) panel” segment of FoxSnooze Sunday.
And then Jayson Blair was featured as the Power Player of the Week! A reporter who “made things up”. What a delicious irony. Perhaps FoxSnooze can hire him to “heal” themselves, too.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:49 amOn domestic policy, Lieberman represents large corporations. On foreign policy, he represents Likud.
Why does Joe Lieberman hate America?
November 8th, 2009 at 10:50 amLieberman can’t tell his conscience from his wallet.
November 8th, 2009 at 10:58 amReconcile and go home. Bye Joe.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:00 amgreat letter, bozo @1… i do wish the threat of non-re-election was real… joe doesn’t care… he’s retiring…
November 8th, 2009 at 11:01 amIs there anything more repugnant than a sanctimonious Zionist? When is that traitor going to move to Israel? With God’s help, we’ll move him to Leavenworth first.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:01 amI can’t even think of words bad enough to describe that hypocritical, arrogant, greedy, vain, mendacious, smarmy, two-faced, thieving, creepy, seditious little pisher.
But I’m working on it.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:03 amLieberman will fold once the heat is put on him. He knows if he shoots health care down his “I” designation will become a “STFU” for good.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:05 amBozo is correct. If Universal Health Care is good enough for Israel, why not USA? Are we that inferior?
November 8th, 2009 at 11:07 amIf this doesn’t cost him his Gavel i don’t know what will!
November 8th, 2009 at 11:09 amLeftside Annie says:
I can’t even think of words bad enough to describe that hypocritical, arrogant, greedy, vain, mendacious, smarmy, two-faced, thieving, creepy, seditious little pisher.
But I’m working on it.
Nice start Annie, but ya forgot:
November 8th, 2009 at 11:12 amdooshnozzle, a-hole, scumbag, fcukstick and dumbass ;)
Don’t forget Wanker.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:13 amRab says:
Lieberman will fold once the heat is put on him. He knows if he shoots health care down his “I” designation will become a “STFU” for good.
Don’t be too confident about that; Joe will be campaigning for several R’s, and he is hoping that the R’s take back both Houses.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:14 amHe answers only to the HC industry, fat cats, Faux News, and not to his constituents who voted him there. If decides to do this then he should loose everything the Democrats have given him and he should be reduced to the most junior senator in the building.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:14 amReid is “damaged goods” as far as I am concerned. Some of these “Democrats” are worthless, and have sold us down the river for a buck.
Thanks, Rahm…Thanks you narcissistic self-serving jerk.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:16 amIt’s time for Harry Reid to have a prayer meeting with Joe and explain why, on no uncertain terms, Joe will no longer chair a committee if he joins the Reps in a filibuster. Shouldn’t be that tough a task, right Harry?
November 8th, 2009 at 11:18 amLet Joe cock-ous with the Republicks in the men’s room.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:20 amwow… the projection and hypocrisy is abundant in michael steele this morning on abc…
after interrupting and talking – filibustering – over tim kaine, he begins his own rant filled with lies and b.s., and when kaine tries to correct him he says ‘i’m not gonna let you filibuster me’…
kaine tried, but didn’t get to the point fast enough before george cut him off…
maddening.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:25 amJoe doesn’t mind driving up the debt to fund wars killing people and he refuses to fund life saving Health Care, so in that way he is consistently Pro Death.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:26 amIt’s time to “filibuster” this GOPshite Liebermann out of the Senate once and for all.
His only concern is the financial health of the corporations.
He and his wife have made millions from the health insurance cabal.
They think that you and I are just garbage, and they are quite contemptuous of our station in life.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:28 amSo is spineless, worthless, Reid going to let Joe and the GOPers do a silent filibuster over the life and death issue of health care for Americans?
I’d like to see Reid force anyone trying to filibuster this bill to have to pull a Mr. Smith and read the damn phone book until they pass out. In fact I think we should all start mailing phone books to both Reid and Joe. Send Joe a phone book so he has some material to read on national TV while obstructing our health care, send Reid a phone book so he wakes up to the importance of this bill and shines a light on these jerks.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:29 ambrothejr says:
He answers only to the HC industry, fat cats, Faux News,
and not to his constituents who voted him there.
well, actually, most of the constituents who voted for him were Rs,
November 8th, 2009 at 11:29 amso he’s probably doing their bidding just fine…
So Joe is against any increase in the national debt, even if it means saving lives.
But he has no problems with the United States sending large sums of money as aid to Israel or spending even larger sums of money invading countries that could pose a threat to Israel.
Joe doesn’t have a problem with debt. He’s just been bought and paid for by other interests.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:33 amTo hell with Lieberman. He’s a walking talking turd. Strip the turd of his chairmanships if possible and move on.
Obama is not helping this debate. Whether that is his plan or not doesn’t matter. Quit pissing and moaning.
There is ONE SIMPLE TRUTH to all of this. PROGRESSIVES are going to save health care reform if we will it so.
Its time to get truly angry and Organize! Organize! ORGANIZE!
Progressives will strip the Stupak Blue Dog poison from the bill. Progressives will challenge 64 Dem limp-dicked traitors in the 2010 mid-terms starting with Stupak. Progressives will hammer the Senate to do the right thing.
Progressives – lets find our allies, make the connections, pool our resources and do what we did before to make real change happen.
American Democracy is participatory politics. The lesson here is that we have to participate better and harder than everyone else. If we don’t hold these insurance companies accountable, no one will.
People are dying and change is hard work. What say you?
My only regret at this moment is that I can’t get all Donald Trump on Rahm’s sorry ass and say, Rahm, You’re Fired!
November 8th, 2009 at 11:34 amoh boy… frank luntz on abc has his 2010 talking points ready…
November 8th, 2009 at 11:38 amnot memorized though, i’m surprised, as he was reading from his list…
The so-called “public option” in the bill won’t be available to struggling families and individuals with overpriced private insurance through their employers. It’s a complete sham as it stands. This bill is the Insurance Company Enrichment Act.
What we deserve is true universal health care financed through taxes and spending on things that matter, instead of war and CEO bonuses. What we’ll be getting is a goddamn MANDATE and more exploitation. The culprits here are Democrats, not Republicans.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:41 amSen. Joseph Lieberman (R-Israel) says, “But worse than that, we have a problem even greater than the health insurance problems, and that is a debt — $12 trillion today, projected to be $21 trillion in 10 years.”
Every American could have free health care for 1,000 years if the U.S.A. would stop fighting wars in Iraq, Afganistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine for Israel.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:44 amall this doom and gloom luntz is projecting can all be tied into the lies and misinformation the he himself has propagated…
people are worried and fearful mostly because of those LIES.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:46 amLet them filibuster. MAKE them really filibuster. Bring in the cots and the porta-potties. Do not recess the Senate until they give the House bill an up or down vote. Let’s see if they can keep talking on this one issue without a break until November, 2010.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:47 amLieberman is to Congress what Madoff was to Wall Street.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:50 amluntz keeps bringing up “a trillion dollars” that this bill is going to cost…
i don’t know why donna brazille can’t say “THAT’S JUST NOT TRUE.”
she did manage to say that the same dems who voted against the bill voted FOR the tax cuts and wars that added FIVE TRILLION $$$ to the debt…
just before and during george saying those famous last words “we’ll have to leave it there” (the equivalent)…
ok… another sunny warm day… out to put my little pond to winter rest… and to do that i get into the chilly water!
not for very long though…
g’day…
November 8th, 2009 at 11:58 amIt is time to declare that health care has an enormous bugetary impact and that it therefore is immune to a filibuster.
Then we should pass the best bill we possibly can.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:05 pmCONservatives don’t HAVE a conscience to have a matter OF, Joe. So it’s naturally appropriate that you take your place among their porcine ranks and bathe yourself in their foul stench. Oh, and I’ll happily contribute to the legal limit, from California no less, to whatever democrat runs against you in a few short years.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:05 pmHarry, seriously, what DOES a guy have to do to get some action out of you? Break your cute little glasses? Grope your wife in public? Climb up and sh*t on your desk? Seriously, what needs to be done to piss you off? The nation is wondering.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:11 pmJoe’s all wind and enjoying the attention. He will not fillibuster with the republicans. My prediction.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:14 pmGRRR, this weasel just makes my blood boil.
GO HERE and tell him he is wrong!
Call, Fax, Write, Visit and Tell your friends to do the same:
http://lieberman.senate.gov/contact/
If you need some good verbage, check out Post 1 from Bozo the Neoclown (thanks to Bozo :-)
AND, I think that it is time for some PROTESTS at his office in CT. Anyone out there in the area, can you get something going please!
November 8th, 2009 at 12:14 pmFor Joe, it’s all about Joe. Notice that he doesn’t say “I will not vote for cloture” or “I will support a filibuster” but rather “I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote”.
He’s so lowdown as to actually prevent other senators from even voting on it.
May he rot in hell.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:15 pmI don’t know what to say about this person audacity of insulting avg American. He doesn’t care about trillions of dollars wasted in wars, it does not bother him. When it comes to spending for well being of country’s own citizen he thinks of balance sheet and debt.
What an…. I don’t know what to say ??
November 8th, 2009 at 12:16 pmI’m not sure that their IS a hell in Jusaism, Joe, but you really need to burn in SOMETHING for all eternity.
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Are you ever going to feel stupid in a few days. You should feel stupid now but I don’t think you’re smart enough to feel stupid.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:43 pm“Lieberman is unnecessary and unwanted. He’s the most unpopular human since Adolf Hitler.”
I invoke Godwin’s Law, and on only the second post.
Lieberman is odious enough on his own without invoking an odious comparison–unless you are an anti-semite and can’t help yourself.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:45 pmShorter masanf – I’m a loser as well as a moron.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:46 pmIra Rosofsky, when you clean up your real nazi’s you can speak to us.
Get out of your glass house occationally.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:53 pmmasanf: You claim you see anti-semitism, intolerance, etc., and you wrap up your hatred for the left in correctly spelled words – but all that means is that you probably copied it verbatim from some wingnut site.
The rest of us see you and think “stupid.”
Yeah. Stupidity. Idiocy. Ticking off wingnut talking points without even digesting them first or holding them up for a cursory reality check – and you expect us to take you seriously?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Oh, man – thanks for the good laugh.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:58 pmTime to announce a new chairman to the Homeland Security Committee. Let Lieberman be a moderate Republican with a seniority ranking dead last in today’s GOP. What committee assignments will they give him, hmm?
November 8th, 2009 at 1:00 pmHi Annie,
I believe this is the stupidity you wrote of earlier. I agree.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:02 pmHe must be passing out from irony deficiency.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:15 pmIf I could have anything, ANYTHING in this world right now, it would be to LOOSE MY FOOT IN HIS ASS
November 8th, 2009 at 1:16 pmOne reason I want the strongest, most robust public option — or, preferably, single payer — is to make Lindsay Graham into a prophet by wiping out the entire goddamned insurance industry, once and for all and for good!
November 8th, 2009 at 1:17 pmThats some might fine projection there Masanf. Care to ask people what they think BEFORE pinning your imagination on them?
November 8th, 2009 at 1:18 pmOK, it’s time to kick joelie to the curb. He isn’t a dem and seems more of a traitor than a friend. He campaigned for mcdiapers, and follows repugs’ leads.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:19 pmI wonder if mansanf is that Manly man troll we used to get that thought he was a rock star and kicked his legs in the air, forget his moniker..
November 8th, 2009 at 1:22 pmStick a public option reconciliation up Lieberman’s butt and then kick it out of the caucus
November 8th, 2009 at 1:25 pmI would not get bent out of shape by what Lieberman says now. He may posturing to extract concessions for the insurance industry and for his state. Lieberman is well aware that if he is the one vote that stops the health care bill, he will lose his chairmanships, seniority and the ability to caucus with the Dems. He will be forced to the Republicans and as low man on the seniority list, his committee assignments will be those he and other Senators do not want. I would expect the Senate bill to come up for debate and a vote for cloture. Then the bill will proceed to a vote which only needs 51 yes votes. When the vote comes up there will be a few Dems who will vote against it because they are afraid of the backlash by voters. They better gauge public opinion correctly because if they are wrong, they may end up with a primary challenge which could unseat them.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:35 pmpags2, I agree. I don’t think even jumpin joe will not fillibuster this bill.
He just wants to feel important.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:42 pmI don’t think even jumin joe will fillibuster this bill…..
got to start previewing my posts…
November 8th, 2009 at 1:44 pmIf we had a Karl Rove on our team he’d dig up dirt (or fabricate some) on Joe and embarrass him in front of the whole country. There was some guy called into the Ron Reagan show I believe who said he’d gone to high school with Joe and the only thing he ever cared about was himself. I’m sure there are plenty of people with stories to tell.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:49 pm@ 6. whirlaway says: “I believe debt can break America and send us into a recession that’s worse than the one we’re fighting our way out of today. I don’t want to do that to our children and grandchildren.” And this from the same bastard who is ever willing to spend 1 or 2 or even 5 trillion to go into another endless war in the Middle-East, this time against Iran. November 8th, 2009 at 10:36 am
damnit, whirlaway, ya beat me to it.
that bs bubbling out of joe liar’s mouth caught my eye and warped my brain at the same time. wtf? this shit-bird is willing to bury us in debt to the Chinese and have Americans and Iraqis slaughtered, but can’t find the sense or sensibility to be in favor of a decent health care insurance system. boy oh boy, when the insurance companies bought jor they certainly got a bargain – stays bought and bloodthirsty too.
is he backing Coburn (Rethug-OK) in blocking the various VA and veteran’s bills? that would be the icing on the cake.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:50 pmLieberman is a traitor to the people of his state. Hopefully the Dems run another good candidate at him, he certainly does not deserve any of our support.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:02 pmHeh. It’s really too bad that twinkle-toes Joe LIEberman can’t just sign up for “Dancing With the Stars” and get it the hell over with!!
November 8th, 2009 at 2:04 pmRemind me again why Reed and the democrats continue to allow Lieberman to keep his committee leadership role?
Reed isn’t showing much backbone or leadership and sets a bad example when he continues to allow the clown from Connecticut to thumb his nose at President Obama, the democratic party and the American people.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:46 pm#
Fred says:
pags2, I agree. I don’t think even jumpin joe will not fillibuster this bill.
He just wants to feel important.
Fred says:
I don’t think even jumin joe will fillibuster this bill…..
got to start previewing my posts…
Sometimes I ain’t got good grammar or speling either. LOL
November 8th, 2009 at 2:54 pmLieberman has the right to vote against the bill if that’s what his conscience tells him to do (actually, it’s what his wallet tells him to do). But, he DOES NOT have the right to stop the bill from even coming to a vote.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:59 pmLIEbermann has got to be one of the MOST despised lame excuse for a human being.
My disrespect for him rates high along with those from the Bush Crime Family.
November 8th, 2009 at 3:06 pmmasanf says:
And when Lieberman, and others such as Nelson and Lincoln, filibuster
Well, if Lincoln and Nelson want to put their jobs on the line, they will do it and probably pay the price. In the meantime, the Democrats will take the bill to Reconciliation. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
BTW troll, why is it so important to you that millions of Americans NOT have access to quality health care? And if there is a god, some day you will become uninsured.
November 8th, 2009 at 3:10 pmUnbelievable by Joe Lipstick. He was for public option before he was against it. Republican party first, American people and CT constitents last.
November 8th, 2009 at 3:19 pmLieberman can stop the vote, but the question is whether he will go out on the limb alone. I don’t think he will. Even if he can persuade one or two other Dems to stop the bill, they will face a shitestorm. Lieberman will be the first casualty when he loses his chairmanship, seniority and the right to caucus with the Dems. The others may face a stiff primary challenge if they fail to properly gauge their constituents opinion. If the Dems lose a lot of seats, they will be blamed.
November 8th, 2009 at 3:20 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins says:
Lieberman has the right to vote against the bill if that’s what his conscience tells him to do (actually, it’s what his wallet tells him to do). But, he DOES NOT have the right to stop the bill from even coming to a vote.
LIEbermann’s action is one or both:
1. he is a sick loser looking for a door opening to sensationalism…. and blocking reform may be the only way through that door.
2.he has been promised big $$$$ and a job from special interest at the end of his term in ‘12.
Clearly he does not belong caucusing with the dems and holding his chairmanship of HLS.
November 8th, 2009 at 3:33 pmLIEberman is a low grade moron working for lobbyists.
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There is nothing wrong with public option or single payer. Yet, Joe protests too much [me thinks].
If he wants to win the people over with his lies he’s going to have to be more creative. Thankfully i don’t see that he has it in him. Goodbye Joe.
November 8th, 2009 at 4:47 pmHey, Joe. I’ll just leave this right here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Israel
November 8th, 2009 at 4:53 pmIf we had a traditonal media that actually did their jobs, then someone would ask Lieberman about these statements, in particular the gem about his constituents being “confused.” Then we wouldn’t be reduced to calling him little names and making ad hominem attacks on him out of frustration.
This is big, and ought to cause some nervousness among Dem incumbents up for election. MoveOn.org raised $3.5 Million in a little over 3 days to potentially primary those who vote against HCR.
November 8th, 2009 at 4:54 pm@Fred:
You wrote: “Ira Rosofsky, when you clean up your real nazi’s you can speak to us.
Get out of your glass house occationally.”
Not only are you as bigoted as Dr. Hussein Matt, you are also as ignorant (do you even know Godwin’s law and possibly illiterate.
In my second paragraph I wrote, “Lieberman is odious enough on his own without invoking an odious comparison”
November 8th, 2009 at 5:04 pmYo, Liberman’s testicles are also unnecessary.
November 8th, 2009 at 5:29 pm60 percent of his constituents support a public option, but Lieberman has dismissed them as just being “confused.”
Wrong answer Joe, you are the one who is CONFUSED!!
November 8th, 2009 at 5:35 pmWho cares what Joe Lieberman thinks?
November 8th, 2009 at 6:13 pmJoe supports our tax dollars going for wars in the Middle East. Joe supports our tax dollars going to Israel that provides Universal Health Care to its citizens. Joe won’t even allow an up or down vote on a weak bill with a weak Public Option for the citizens of the USA.
November 8th, 2009 at 6:17 pmToss Joey under the bus; strip him of chairmanship, etc; same for Nelson, Lincoln, et al; then go with reconciliation and move on to creating jobs. Grow a set, Reid.
November 8th, 2009 at 8:04 pmLabeling one’s constituents like this is not generally seen as a way to win friends and influence constituents. But alas, these Republicans seem to have an invincible attitude and constituents be darned, OR they are just plain party hacks. As a moderate Republican I find this arrogant attitude totally disgusting. Many of us moderate Republicans may just have to leave our party since the party has surely left us.
November 8th, 2009 at 8:55 pmGrants, loans, and contracts are stimulating local economies, to: 1)innovate 2) prosper 3) improve! In my state, New York, recovery monies are producing an average of one, to two new jobs, per each contract-awarded! Hundreds of such contracts have been awarded, to date, from quarterly, and more often reviewed-and-updated information, at: [www.recovery.gov] !!
November 8th, 2009 at 9:03 pmAfter Liebermans interview with Mike Wallacee today, he should be censored and booted. With all the other pieces of shit in Washington, this man is the most un American Piece of shit up there.
November 8th, 2009 at 9:12 pmLieberman is projecting…
November 8th, 2009 at 9:24 pmSO when this bill passes with some restrictions on abortion, no public option, and a hundred more concessions to the insurance industry, will you all still be rah-rahing the Democrats? Do you really think electing a different set of Democrats will change anything? LOL
November 8th, 2009 at 10:42 pmConservaTROLL
Why havent you killed yourself yet? Get with it. The world HATES you and expects you to do the right thing
November 8th, 2009 at 11:40 pmIs Joe taking money from those Insurance Companies that profit from abortions?
November 9th, 2009 at 12:01 amIt’s ok Joe. Quite a few of those kids will be dead due to lack of healthcare. Here’s a thought. Instead of no healthcare or healthcare that saddles the middle class with years of debt how about those of you who are wealthy pay a little more in taxes since Georgey boy gave you a break all those years. It won’t break you to pay a small increase in taxes and would make a huge difference in the lives of Americans and to our economy. That’s what you care about after all isn’t it joe?
November 9th, 2009 at 12:45 amIs there anyway the State of Connecticut can RECALL Lieberman?
November 9th, 2009 at 7:28 amLIEERMAN needs a hug. He feels so irrelevant these days.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:49 amActually, Liebermann is unnecessary.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:37 amHey Joe, how many shares of stock do you own in private health insurance companies?
November 9th, 2009 at 10:38 amCry me a river, Libs. Glad to see a voice of reason rising to challenge this Socialist highjacking of our health care system.
Oh yeah, its his ego. Obama does not have an ego now, does he?
November 9th, 2009 at 2:34 pmLiberalSUCKINGcoward
STFU. You are stupid. You have nothing to contribute EXCEPT showing just how pathetically stupid you and your kind are and you have already performed that function so just STFU and let the adults talk
November 9th, 2009 at 3:03 pmI am totally tired of hearing Mr.(not sure he deserves even this as a title but he sure doesn’t deserve to be called senator) Lieberman speak out, thinking anyone really cares what he thinks about anything. It is way past time for him to just switch political parties and then maybe he would vote in favor of what the Democrats are voting for … seems he can’t vote with his current political party any more … that is if he ever did!
November 9th, 2009 at 3:08 pmAh yes, Democrats and Liberals…always eager to tax and spend someone elses hard-earned money to prop up the welfare state!
That’s a nice big jet Piglosi rides in. I heard it is very “green” – powered by the socialist bullshit they shovel in DC.
November 9th, 2009 at 3:36 pmLiberalSUCKINGcoward
Ah yes the COWARDcons always trying to make sure Americans DIE. Cowards they are they just LOVE it when Americans are DYING. Its always party time at LiberalSUCKINGcowards house when Americans are DYING. He HATES America and Americans and wants as many of them as possible to DIE. Since he is too stupid to ever fulfull his mission of making them all as miserable as his pathetic life is seeing them DIE is what gives him pleasure. What a pitiful subhuman moron LiberalSUCKINGcoward is
November 9th, 2009 at 4:07 pmEugene, your response further validates beyond question that you are a compete and utter mental patient. You are the poster child for the radical left-wing: a salivating, hate-mongering lunatic wearing a smiley face t-shirt and birkenstocks.
Got another one for ya, Libby –
Q: How do you improve the aerodynamics of a liberal’s car?
A: Take the pizza delivery sign off the roof.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:27 pmLiberalSUCKINGcoward
You cant fool us. We KNOW you hate America and LOVE to see Americans DIE. We know you are a miserable subhuman moron. You are more transparent than water. Seeing through you is the easiest thing in the world. Anyone can see how sad and pathetic you are. You are so stupid you think those juvenile jokes are clever because you have the mental capacity of a retarded five year old. They are pathetic and stupid just like you. You expose yourself over and over by showing your stupidity. Just kill yourself. You are stupid, pitiful and miserable. No one in your entire life will ever respect you or be glad to see you. That look you see on the eyes of people when you show up is your sad fate. They pity you and despise you. That will never change. Do the world the only favor someone as stupid and pathetic as you are can ever manage. Just kill yourself
November 9th, 2009 at 6:15 pmLet me state this as clearly as I possibly can: “Joe Lieberman is an a s s hole” and we are going to defeat him in the next election. Bank on it Joe, your career in the Senate is nearly over and I will be so glad to see you without a job. I hope one of the insurance companies will hire you after you lose you seat. You are a “Trator” to all democrats, may your rotten soul rot in hell forever. The people are going to vote you out of office, you stupid moron. I want my money and my vote back sucker. I voted for you and Gore, I knew I should have voted for Bush.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:55 pm