Say It Ain’t So Joe (Lieberman)

So why do Republicans insist Democrats have a super majority, when in reality they only have 58 Democratic senators, 1 independent that is right of the Dems, and Lieberman – who campaigned for John McCain and is now trying to kill health care reform for his CT insurance company lobbyists?
REALITY is that Democrats do NOT have a super majority in the Senate. They should use reconciliation just like Reagan, Bush and everyone else has to put through important legislation – the threat of Republicans whining even louder if they do is no reason not to. It could actually help Democrats, as people remember “Huh, when Democrats were in the minority they whined too, but they also compromised and actually helped govern too.”

Classic Lieberman. If he can’t keep his word why does anyone trust him? Oh that’s right… no one does. republicans actually respect and trust Reid more than Lieberman. I have no idea why the Democrats let this wingnut keep his chairmanship when he seems to flip a coin every day to decide whether to keep the agreements he made the day before. Come on Connecticut this guy is past his expiration date.

jhw. What the h____ are you talking about? Bush didn’t know how to spell or pronounce “reconciliation,” let along ever do any of it. He had a Republican majority in Congress from 2000-06 and always that deciding vote with Cheney, the Haliburton lackey. How else do you think they got through the immoral fat cat tax cut? Lieberman is a complete jerk. He just likes to be smoozed because he can’t really do anything respect worthy on his own. Bush never needed reconciliation because the total group of neocons have as much individuality as cyborgs, and the Republicans used to praise themselves as the party of the individual. Yeah, if the individual is a billionaire who outsources jobs.

The senate made deals with drug companies to block meds coming in from other countries.
If Lieberman is called the Senator from Aetna, what do they call themselves?

Lieberman is a great American! God bless you , Joe!

Joe Lieberman is just standing up for most Americans. Poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans don’t want government health care. No politician who is for government-run health care can explain how it is to be paid for. I actually live in CT and I am not employed by the insurance industry. He’ll get my vote!

What’s wrong with you people? Why do you assume Joe is in some big pocket? Let’s face it–ObamaCare has been cutting deals with big pharma and AARP and other special interests–why aren’t you outraged about that? Anyway, unless you live in CT, you don’t have any influence over Joe.

Some of you just don’t get. My friend has to pay $1100 a month for her and her husband’s health insurance with a $5,000 deductible. I guess you must get your health care from Medicare.

You’re absolutely right, David. We need to shoulder some of the financial burden for paying for our own health care. Don’t know how or why some people expect this to be “free”.

I am Jewish! All Joe is doing is hurting us Jewish people with his GREED and STUPIDITY. I thought Joe was for the People and not for the Insurance Companies, that screw the the little Person everyday. Hopefully someone in the Jewish Community will talk to him about his GREED and STUPIDITY. Because I was under the impression that Joe was for what is right, then doing something like the “NO REPUBLICANS” DO. If he does pull this “STUPID STUN” all the Jews will be HURT and AUSTERESIZE by his GREED and STUPIDITY much more then we are now.

ladem – when was the last time your friend with the $1100 monthly insurance bill asked the doc why the heck perscribe a $65 /pill med when a $.75 /pill generic will do the same job? When was the last time your friend said to their kid, wife or self, ‘hey, so you’ve got a sneezy, stuffy head and a sore throat. You’ll live.’ instead of going to the Doc’s office or worse yet, the emergency room? Come on, there are over 3,000 national/regional health insurers in the US. It’s very competitive. Do you really think they’re all in collusion? Do you really think the Doc’s will do a better job of perscribing meds if it’s a government program? Do you really think the Pharmaceuticals will quit paying kickbacks to the docs – or that the docs will forgo the kickbacks as a deserved revenue stream? Will any of you decide that sometimes you get sick and all you can do drink fluids and go to bed and you will get better? Do you really think that you, your friends, the docs, and the drug companies will behave much better and the costs will spiral down if Uncle Sugar’s in charge?

Further more health care will sort itself out as the US population declines due to Obama’s seemingly deliberate tactics to have as many soldiers killed as possible in Afghanistan.

And why is this a Jewish issue,gjhardtimes?

Joe is doing the right thing. At least 90 percent of Congress follows what the leaders believe in; Lieberman’s support for McCain (not illegal by the way, so Dems got enough out of removing his chairmanship of the subcommittee) shows he votes with his heart, the people of his state, and not anyone else. Why do you think nobody in Connecticut is worried about Lieberman while Dodd will have the campaign fight for his life in 2010?

The reason we can’t get a blessed thing done for the average working stiff in this country is the bribery going on in D.C. called lobbying. Want to get rid of those stinking environmental safeguards, put some big campaign money into the hands of enough politicians (Republican and Democrat) and make it happen. Want a gargantuan tax cut for the fat cats who need it like they need another private jet? Just get your lobbyists to make campaign fund promises to enough people in Congress. Wake up, America. It’s past time to take back our government. The Republicans have taken the words of a great, great Republican named Abraham Lincoln and changed them to government by the rich, for the rich, and of the rich. Look at the legislation of Republican Congresses and tell me otherwise. You can’t do it.

Lieberman deserves a Nobel Prize for common sense and courage. He is opposing another stupid Obama spending program that is destroying our economy. there are many members of Congress that agree with Joe but do not have his courage.

Good for Joe!!. He got had by the Demos and switched parties. Now he can use that leverage to stick it to them. It’s good, good, news. This healthcare mess that the crooked democrats are pushing on all Americans is socialism. The takeover will lead us down the path that will be a disaster even for those who think it is going to be their savior. Good for Joe. God bless him!!

It’s really simple folks. Joe is just a guy who cannot take a stand and stick to it. He plays both sides of the table. He couldn’t get nominated and his little feelings are hurt. First he endorses Obama and introduces him as “the gift” (doesn’t anyone remember this?) Then he makes another speech where he continues to spout off about how we are supposed to come together in a crisis (RNC speech referring to Katrina) because it’s not about a party affiliation… It’s about americans coming together to help each other in a crisis. Well Joe, we have a health care crisis for christ’s sake! Joe needs to come down out of his ivory tower and take a stand one way or another. Either he’s a going to be a democrazy or a rethuglican. He either likes the black president or he doesn’t. Yes. I said it. I still maintain that the biggest problem the rethugs have with this president and ANYTHING he will ever try to accomplish, is the fact that it is being prrposed by a black man. If Mr. Bush was trying to pass this bill with a public option included, it would have been over and done with by now. Joe, if you can’t take a stand, then you stand for nothing and frankly, we had enough of nothing. There is nothing left for you to be except the coward that you are.

Good job Joe! Reid’s already down in the polls in Nevada as the incumbent, and this “kick in the teeth” will make it even harder for him to win re-election. Reid’s playing it off like it’s no skin off his back. But it was Reid who let Lieberman keep his chairmanship against the wishes of the majority of democrats in the senate. Once again Joe, way to pull the rug out from under the liberals! Lieberman is smart. He sees the writing on the wall, and knows the democratic “majority” will cease to exist after the mid-terms. Man you democrats really suck!

Liberals are just full of hate and contempt. Liberman has been one who has been honest and has great integrity unlike the reid’s and rengals. He has always been against increasing the deficit since it is so high right now, if you haven’t noticed it went up 1.4 trillion in the last year alone and will double in the 4 years of Obama’s presidency. At least Liberman has the smarts to face the facts and reality that most of you do not

Joe Lieberman is one of the few senators (along with John McCain) who votes his mind rather than the party line. He is to be commended for being one of the true Americans in the Senate.