Lieberman will filibuster if Public Option is not removed

[tmyers09]

According to MSNBC just now.

Fucking ingrate. Pure scum. Hopefully more info when they come back from commercial.

[closeupready]

1. Asshat.

n/t

[Captain Hilts]

2. GOOD! Make them stand up and be counted!

[DearAbby]

3. Lieberman wants to be remembered

as the man who wanted to deny healthcare for Americans.

[Parker CA]

14. Or he's going to use this charade to broker some deal with the Dems so that he

gains more power and then votes for moving things forward. Either way, an asshole. Perhaps he already has a deal brokered with the piggies to switch parties and end healthcare. Nothing would surprise me.

[DearAbby]

35. I don't see the benefit of doing that right now

the GOP has no committee chairs, no power. Lieberman wants to be in a role of power. He is trying to broker a deal with the Democrats, they should just toss his ass to the curb.

[Jennicut]

4. What is ridiculous is that people of Connecticut overwhelmingly want the public option.

Complete utter asshole. Ashamed he is from my state and my Senator.

[Better Today]

8. Then get them on the phones, demanding refunds of their contributions as well as a PO!

[Jennicut]

15. Oh, I will be writing an email and calling.

I wrote Chris Murphy ( my rep here in CT) to praise him for support of the public option and got a great email back from him. Not so sure I will get anything from old Joe but I will do my best. :patriot:

[LynzM]

19. We DO call him.

He doesn't give a fuck, apparently. He has "saved jobs in CT" by keeping the sub base here, so he's got some huge pull with particular groups, who keep him elected. We tried DAMNED hard to get Ned Lamont elected, and the repubs voted for Joe. /sigh

[tmyers09]

5. Important note about the source.

They apparently said it was from POLITICO, so who knows.

After the break they are now talking about Afghanistan, as if what they just said wasn't important. What the fucking fuck?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. Straight from the horse's mouth: "Sure I'd filibuster a Health Care Bill with a Public Option"

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/lieberman-sure-id-filibuster-a-health-care-reform-bill.php

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. Politico appears to be having one of its "took too many barbituates" days.

They are just ranting about everything Obama or Democratic, all over the place, not making any sense.

[peace frog]

6. Way to 'caucus' with Democrats, Joe!

Once a lying turncoat, always a lying turncoat.

Hello Democrats: DITCH THE BITCH.

[tinrobot]

7. He'll lose his chairmanship if he pulls this stunt

[librechik]

12. now now don't be too hard on Joe--he's a true blue!

at least that's what Rahm tells me...

[PassingFair]

24. He has one of the most liberal records in the Senate!

(said by DLC members MORE TIMES than I can remember on this very board).


:puke:

[Kajsa]

9. He has completely disgraced himself now!

He needs to go!

[Kadie]

13. Once again, one of my favorite pictures of Lieberman (Thanks to Swamp Rat)

[tmyers09]

16. POLITICO's full story in case you don't want to go there.

Lord knows I wouldn't.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28788.html

Lieberman says he'll filibuster Reid plan

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.

Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance program — even if it includes a provision allowing states to opt out of the program, as Reid’s has said the Senate bill will.

"We're trying to do too much at once," Lieberman said. “To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt. I don’t think we need it now."

Lieberman added that he’d vote against a public option plan “even with an opt-out because it still creates a whole new government entitlement program for which taxpayers will be on the line."

His comments confirmed that Reid is short of the 60 votes needed to advance the bill out of the Senate, even after Reid included the opt-out provision. Several other moderate Democrats expressed skepticism at the proposal as well, but most of the wavering Democratic senators did not go as far as Lieberman Tuesday, saying they were waiting to see the details.

Lieberman did say he's "strongly inclined" to vote to proceed to the debate, but that he’ll ultimately vote to block a floor vote on the bill if it isn’t changed first.

"I've told Sen. Reid that if the bill stays as it is now I will vote against cloture,” he said.

[tinrobot]

22. "We're trying to do too much at once"

So we do nothing instead? Fuck you Joe.

[Ardent15]

17. A traitor to the Democratic Party

Fuck him.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. Bye-bye chairmanship! Now!

[Greyhound]

23. I wouldn't hold my breath. The parasites will protect their own n/t

[Echo In Light]

20. He's a fascist. Fuck him.

[dysfunctional press]

21. well- connecticut does have a pretty big insurance industry presence...

and whores generally do what they're paid to do.

[tmyers09]

25. Was he always this dense?

I find it hard to believe Gore would have picked him for VP in 2000 if he was this bad.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

26. This guy has been given so many chances to redeem himself

and he keeps disappointing us in the most treacherous manner possible. Why is he being given any power in the Senate by the Democratic Party? Why isn't he completely marginalized? You always hear the justification for it as a need for his vote at crunch time. But if you can't count on that, then why not turn him completely loose?

[Winterblues]

27. I love Al Gore, but what in the Hell was that man thinking anyway?

That one has baffled me for years...:crazy:

[Individualist]

29. Gore was DLC at the time; Lieberman was and still is DLC.

[Winterblues]

30. More to it than that..DLC is completely for Health Care Reform

even if it has a Public Option..

[Individualist]

31. DLC is for corporations, and that includes insurance companies.

[Tom Rinaldo]

28. Join in a call for a National Health Care Rally - in Hartford CT

Here is a thread to discuss it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6867137

[ddeclue]

32. OK CT DEMS... time to protest in front of his office, his house, when he comes back from the airport

make his phones ring off the hook and make it clear that he will be replaced in 2012 and that he is finished in CT politics!

Should have done it the last time in 2006!

[krawhitham]

33. According to AP he will not

so who knows

[Festivito]

34. Let them eat their own dead. Eh, Joe? /nt