Lieberman Will Join With Republicans To Filibuster Health Care Bill

Do you think Democrats have maybe come to regret trying to kick Lieberman out of the party in 2006?

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.”

Lieberman is no champion of individualism, and individual responsibility on health care (as opposed to big, collective government programs) is the solution.
But even so, let’s hope Lieberman and others like him gum up the works enough to create gridlock.
Doing nothing is about the best conservatives can hope for on health care out of this Congress.

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  • http://Array sayanything-9974

    He is doing something for his country. As far as protecting Isreal, what’s wrong with that. You must be anti-semetic Dino. You only seem to be tolerant of people that agree with you. I hope more politicians will grow a pair and just say no to the Obama Kool-aid.

  • j.l.

    So Dino, is protecting the only democracy in the Middle East a bad thing?

  • sayanything-1254

    In the run-up to the 2008 election Joe Lieberman was defeated in the primary by the very liberal/leftists you claim he is one of. He was forced to run as an independent in order to hold his seat.

  • Gus

    Ahhh Rob, you say, “let’s hope Lieberman and others like him gum up the works enough to create gridlock.” Yet you squeal with indignation when we say Democrats should RAM health care through.

    You are a hypocrite when you oppose the systems manipulation, unless you think it benefits you.

  • sayanything-2819

    I am also not a big Lieberman fan. Over the years though, I have grown to respect him a great deal.

  • HG

    Thank you Joe.

    Good on ya, for putting ‘country first’.

  • sayanything-3165

    I am NOT a Lieberman lover. He is way too liberal for me. He’s as liberal as John Kerry ever was. However, unlike John Kerry, Joe votes in what he feels is in the best interest of the nation and not what is best for his party or worst for the opposing party. Kudus for values Joe.

  • http://www.visit-queensland.com.au/ John

    Whatever…. If the health reform was started – it is better to get it finished, instead of making difficulties to it in order to promote yourself.

  • sayanything-3165

    Huh?

  • sayanything-6955

    Will other moderate dems follow him? This genius thinks so,
    http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/10/told-ya-so-on-reids-empty-hand.html

  • sayanything-4416

    Sad Sack Joe is a piece of dung. He’s all for spending billions in borrowed money to protect Israel but can’t stand the thought of doing something for the citizens of his country.

    Self-serving philanthropy. His peoples’ favorite kind of giving.

  • sayanything-4416

    Sure, let’s spend the Treasury protecting those people. Sounds good to me. As long as Israel gets to do whatever it wants, that’s all that matters.

    It’s sort of like me going into a biker bar and making out with my boyfriend and expecting someone to protect me.

    The Israel lobby already got us into a couple trillion dollar wars through their advance men in the bush administration.

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