Lieberman Says “No”

Posted by Mark Noonan in health care on November 23rd, 2009 at 07:28pm with 3 responses.
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To the public option:

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, speaking in that trademark sonorous baritone, utters a simple statement that translates into real trouble for Democratic leaders: “I’m going to be stubborn on this.”

Stubborn, he means, in opposing any health-care overhaul that includes a “public option,” or government-run health-insurance plan, as the current bill does. His opposition is strong enough that Mr. Lieberman says he won’t vote to let a bill come to a final vote if a public option is included.

We’ll have to see how firm he stands – after all, the left has been after his scalp for a while and might force Reid to threaten Lieberman’s committee assignments if he doesn’t toe the line. On the other hand, Lieberman just might figure that any loss of committee will be temporary – either the Democrats will win a reduced, need-Lieberman-majority after 2010, or the GOP will have won a narrow, better-make-sure-of-Lieberman majority. We’ll have to see – but, meanwhile, this does bode well for our ability to prevent the liberals from forging the shackles of slavery for us…

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Mark Noonan is co-author (with Matt Margolis) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Nevada News and Views. Follow Mark on Twitter.

3 Responses to “Lieberman Says “No””

  1. cluster says:
    November 23, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    Lieberman says no? A little late for that. The democrats will go nuclear and only need 51 votes, so they wont need him. Tough, but empty rhetoric.

  2. Mark Noonan says:
    November 23, 2009 at 8:19 pm

    Cluster,

    That is my concern, too – Lieberman had a chance to be a real hero on Saturday and he dropped the ball.

  3. William Teach says:
    November 23, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    I think the problem is that people can say no to the public option, or to the abortion measures, or to this or that, but, it is the entire travesty of a bill that they need to say no to.

    It’s times like these that the Republican party and Conservatives need a good leader. We just do not have the lemming like ability to take some talking points and all get together and beat those points to death. The resistance to the legislation is too disjointed, as it comes from the elected Republicans and such. The only time the Right really beat the drum was the death panels. The national players should be beating the drum regarding the fines and potential jail time. Beat that TP till it hurts. And sticks. Much like the Left beat the drum about “Bush mislead.” That TP was fake, but, there are so many about the health system legislation that is real, and could be used to slam the Dems.