Senator Joe Lieberman
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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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You have to be out of your mind!!!!
You have to be out of your mind!!!!
PS I was just banned by this channel I was talking to you on. Shows you what open minds the Left Wing has.
But again! I'm not a medical person. So you'll have to take what I said with a grain of salt. Not sugar which can cause tooth decay, but a grain of salt.
MediCAID does cover dental if you are fortunate to find a dentist who will work for MediCAID rates which are very low.
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.
Guess not.
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.
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