Senator Joe Lieberman

The Crooked Dope

Joe Lieberman (I, CT)

I ran into Senator Lieberman in the Russell Rotunda as he navigated between television appearances.

I may be wrong, but I dont think so and Ill leave it to others to pick apart his record and substantiate my gut feeling here. But it seems to me as if Lieberman was once a reliable progressive. After (or during) the 2000 election debacle, he navigated toward the center. Then came 9/11, and then Iraq Lieberman enjoyed his status as statesman and for a while, he was deluded by a fawning press into thinking that he was a renaissance man of modern politics adored by everyone, left and right.

Then, in 2003-4 and again in 2006, reality bit him in the ass. And he was completely blindsided. All of the people that wrote nice things about him in the op-ed pages of the Washington Post Sean Hannity George Bush and Dick Cheney. they all adored him! How could it be that the people the riff-raff werent equally in love?

Well, it mustve been the new guys on the block those bloggers and the rest of the lunatics on the far-left. They pissed in Good ol Joes punch-bowl and ruined everything.

But Joe just knew he was loved. And ultimately, he was right. All it took was a party switch and he won re-election handily in 2006. Of course, his love comes from George Bush and Dick Cheney fans Friends of Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck tea-baggers, birthers and assorted extremists But in the end, Joe Lieberman is in the Senate and Ned Lamont is not.

I dont think that lesson has been lost on Joe. I think he knows who butters (and buttered) his bread, and hes changed political stripes to stay in the good graces of his new-found base. I dont think the Joe Lieberman of 1998 would have in a million years opposed a public option. (Yeah, I know, he was too busy criticizing Bill Clinton, even then. So, like I said, maybe Im wrong about this).

Anyway, the question on everyones minds is whether or not Joe will stand with Democrats and vote for cloture if it is necessary to bring a health care bill with a public option to the floor of the Senate for an up or down vote.

In the video, he tells me he hasnt decided.

So I ask him if it would matter if support for the public option was running at 60-65% in his state.

He tells me he is always interested in what the people have to say, and then goes on to do a bit of filibustering of his own to end my interview.

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News & Politics

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• Joe Lieberman
• filibuster
• health care

[fpm229]

This is one slimy piece of shit.

[funkyflights]

Lieberman is selling us out .... he just openly admitted 47 millions Americans dont have insurance BUT YET he's not in favor of the public option which would COVER more people... WTF is wrong with these guys... why are they always on the side of the private insurance companies ? OH WAIT... there receiving pay checks from them I forgot....

[jbster7777]

This crooked fuck made Amazon remove the mirrors which supported Wikileaks on-line. This bastard needs to meet up with a loan gun man before he destroys free speech on the internet. Whoever voted for this corrupted asshole has to make amends and get him out of office. You also have to confront him and bombard him with questions like he has no party loyalty and why he is against free speech. I despises this man!

[eldoradoreefgold]

senator lieberman finally shows his political party affiliation by starring as senator palpatine....of the sith!

[kenzo5716]

Zionist agent Liebermannnnn is already demanding that Obama send war planes to bomb Iran for Israel.

[deefirst]

AL FRANKEN HAS SHUT JOE DOWN!!

[jbugko]

I think what Lieberman is focused on is what the GOP is focused on:

Grandstand

Opposing

&

Preventing

[jbugko]

if people around him have changed, does that mean that his staff salaries have been willing to take a bit of a pay cut in the name of fiscal prudence?

If Lieberman wanted to practice fiscal prudence, he would tone down his staff salaries which are higher than the average. ie $2,656,223 spent last year in his staff salaries for 2008 on top of his own salary.

[jbugko]

If people around him have changed, does that mean that his wife is no longer a senior counselor to Hill & Knowlton which is one of the world's biggest lobbying firms for the health care industry.

Guess not.

[tekatetikitiki]

I cant belive this caricature(Lieberman)has millions of uninsured Americans as HOSTAGES!! He just said: I wont supporta a public option or a plan that triggers one.I cant believe Americans dont wake up to this: Why dou elect these kind of people? Dont pay attention to me. Go to Wikipedia & find for urself the cultural background & origins of this man;Please, WAKE UP.The fact tha hesborn in U.S.A. or claims to be a patriot doesnt mean he really is an American.

[DERBYCLOWN]

Read all about it!

Health insurance giant Aetna plans to raise consumer insurance prices and push up to 650,000 clients to give up their health coverage next year, as it seeks to increase revenues to meet projected profit margins.

[The6000Sabre]

Yes MediCARE does not cover dental.

MediCAID does cover dental if you are fortunate to find a dentist who will work for MediCAID rates which are very low.