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Time to go after Lieberman
Hopefully, someone will soon put up some commercials in Connecticut. A Jon Stewart-like montage of Lieberman proposing the public option in 2004, lauding it in 2006, and stabbing us in the back in 2009. When Move On or whomever is ready to launch, I'm ready to donate. The rest of my post is unprintable (or at least, can't be said on TV).
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Do you have sources showing Lieberman's support for a public option in 2004 and 2006? Also, you could do a montage yourself and put it on YouTube.
October 28, 2009 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hopefully with a baseball bat. But here's a link to when he supported a public option.
C
October 28, 2009 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I see from your link that TPM now says what he supported in 2004 was not a public option. I think 2006 still stands.
October 28, 2009 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if pressure is something that God's-gift-to-legislation is likely to respond to?
How would the opinions of a few thousand or hundreds of thousands of wrong-minded people be weighed, as against the deliberative conclusions of this man of such wisdom? Whose wife and whose campaign are funded by insurance ghouls?
October 29, 2009 5:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
It would be good to see it. Stewart is after him all the time and does his droopy dog impersonation.
October 29, 2009 8:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Lieberman is like old fashioned fly paper: he sticks around with buzzing sounds of dying pests, and no one wants to so much as touch him to rid us all of his annoying presence. So he hangs there , vapid, slimy, making nonsense sounds. Go away Joe-the-rat, just go away! Shame on Connecticut, Shame!
October 29, 2009 9:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now you democrats know what it's like! We have Snowe, Collins, McCain, (Specter is gone now!), you have Lieberman and hopefully others soon!
October 29, 2009 9:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'd like tpm to find out 2 things.
1: Has there been a poll in CT that
says where the public is on this issue &
2: Is there any momentum to start a recall
movement to get rid of this toad?
I also remember him being for the public option
when he was running for his political life before he
became a republican shill.
October 29, 2009 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
I heard 68% in favor of the public option in CT last night. I think it was on Rachel's show. Lieberman is in the tank with the insurance companies. Glenn Greenwald was on talking about that and also talking about how Bayh's wife sits on the Board of Directors at Wellpoint. Clear conflict of interest in that case as well as with Lieberman's wife who apparently works for the Pharma industry.
October 29, 2009 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Probably more at fault for Gore's 2000 loss than Nader, Lieberman was at the time the senator from Insuraceuticalia. Connecticut being the friendliest state for Big Pharma and health insurance companies, they have returned him to the senate time and time again. It's no surprise that he'd come to their rescue. Why does no one ever detail the campaign contributions of these guys when they take such outlandish stands. And yes, Dems need to strip committee chairs from all who stand in the way of the procedural votes on health care reform!
October 29, 2009 9:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Mr. TheraP calls him "Judas"!
October 29, 2009 12:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Strip him of his Committee Chair for sure. He isn't even a Democrat, he "caucuses with the Democrats." If he won't support the Democrats when it matters then Reid gave away an important Chairmanship and got nothing for it. I hope he has the spine to correct that.
October 29, 2009 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink