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Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Steve Coll asks if it isn't time to dump Joe -- and use Olympia Snowe to get rid of him. He bases strategy, at least in part, on an episode of "Mad Men." Remember, in the final episode, when the...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
I have a hard time looking at or listening to Joe Lieberman. I know this is my problem. If I agreed with the man's politics,...
John McQuaid (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Thanksgiving is a time for taking a deep breath and appreciating the under-appreciated. So I thought I would challenge myself this year. Let’s take a moment, reflect, and give thanks that Joe Lieberman is in the Senate. Bear with me here. In the 1990s, I liked Lieberman. Most of his policy positions were reasonable. He was [...]
Jesus' General (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The left hates the heretical senator from Connecticut. But his may be the vote that decides health care HE IS described by Crooks and Liars, a progressive blog, as “a sleazebag, a warmongering neocon, a sanctimonious back-stabber” and some other things best not imagined before breakfast. “Every time I see Joe on television, he makes my skin crawl,” says the Daily Kos, a blog...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
UNDERSTANDING LIEBERMAN'S MOTIVATIONS.... Whenever Joe Lieberman's name pops up, the now-tired cliche -- he's with Democrats on "everything but foreign policy" -- still pops up. Usually, it's intended as sarcasm, emphasizing the fact that Lieberman is at odds with his...
Rod 2.0:Beta (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean responds to Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-Aetna) threat to support a Republican filibuster of health care reform if bill includes a public option. Via Americablog: Dean says Lieberman should resign as chair of the...
My Left Nutmeg - Front Page (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Steve Benen has kindly catalogued the many excuses Joe Lieberman has used in the past six months to oppose a health care reform, and specifically the public option. In the end, Howard Fineman in the video below probably states the most obvious reason of all: Lieberman simply wants to kill health care reform and is a serial liar. ANOTHER MONTH, ANOTHER EXCUSE.... That Joe Lieberman...
Connecticut Bob (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Many bloggers seem to be picking up on Sen. Joe Lieberman's obsessive anti-Democrat attitude. People are starting to question whether the senator is truly representing what his constituents believe, or if he's simply engaging in political payback for the endless professional disappointments he's experienced over the last five or six years.I wrote somewhat jokingly that Lieberman was suffering...
Religio-Political Talk (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Alternet (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Joe Lieberman will work with Republicans to kill health care reform, no matter the consequences for the millions who are counting on this bill to pass.
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The Wall Street Journal 's Gerald Seib has a piece about Sen. Joe Lieberman's opposition to the public option that serves as a clear reminder of why politicians lie: they know they won't get called on it. Seib writes: Mr. Lieberman also notes that the public option wasn't a big feature of past health-overhaul plans or the campaign debate of 2008. Well, no. Mr. Lieberman doesn't...
America's Watchtower (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Joe Lieberman is still adamant that he will not vote in favor of the healthcare reform bill if there is any form of a public option included in the bill. According to Lieberman he will not vote for the bill if it contains a state “opt out” option and he will not vote in favor of the [...]
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
WHAT TO DO ABOUT JOE.... Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), refusing to allow a vote on any health care bill that subjects private insurers to any competition at all, told the WSJ yesterday, "I'm going to be stubborn on this." Stubborn,...
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The word "no" is my favorite word coming from Joe Lieberman these days: 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...
