I guess she didn't follow Lieberman's flip-flopping on Medicare expansion...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/14/liebermans-medicare-flip_n_391732.html
...."Sen. Joseph Lieberman's abrupt announcement that he will sink the health-care bill if it includes a provision to expand Medicare has spurred a torrent of angry recriminations from Democrats -- and confusion among those trying to divine his motives.
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The simplest explanation for Lieberman's pirouette is that he is in the pocket of the insurance industry. He has been criticized along those lines since his days as attorney general of Connecticut. Back in 1988, he was dogged for accepting campaign donations from the insurance company Advest Inc. one month after Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Peter W. Gillies had requested an opinion from his office in a case involving the company. Over the course of his career in the Senate, meanwhile, Lieberman has taken more than $1.04 million in campaign contributions from insurance companies, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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"I think he is smarting from 2004 and 2006," says Greenberg. "I think he believes that he should have been a presumptive strong [presidential] candidate in 04 having been Al Gore's vice presidential candidate. That didn't happen and I think the resentment began then. Then in 2006 the [Ned] Lamont challenge which made him an independent. I know he resents the left wing of the Connecticut Democratic Party and the left wing of national Democrats. I'm sure he doesn't mind putting it to them."
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Back in 1988, he spoke disparagingly of the fact that his opponent, Sen. Lowell Weicker, was not really a member of either major party. "Lowell Weicker is not a real Republican," Lieberman charged. "He's not a real Democrat. He does what he wants when he wants to do it." Now, of course, Lieberman is jubilant in his self-proclaimed independence.
.........And now it looks increasingly like the senator who Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and President Barack Obama generously kept in the Democratic caucus following the '08 elections will end up upending their primary domestic agenda.
"It's all about his ego and isn't based on any principled understanding of the policy," said one senior Democratic aide. "But the big problem with Lieberman is that his saying that he will vote 'no' gives cover and opens the door to about a half dozen other senators who can now do the same. So this really won't be about Reid having to find one more vote to balance Lieberman. Which means that either health reform is doomed or a bunch more deals will need to be cut watering down the reform even more. I guess the question is, at what point does it all become a wash?".......
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