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Lieberman Opposes Baucus Bill
Weekly Standard Blog —
... on the one hand, what we’re about to do in adopting health care reform will, will reduce the cost of health insurance from what it would otherwise be and the other hand you say, oh incidentally, we’re going to raise your taxes or cut your Medicare to the tune of $900 billion or a trillion. And people are beginning to think that maybe they’d do better holding on to what they have now."
HT: ThinkProgress
Taking Stock Of AHIP Report - Last 36 Hours Have Galvanized Both Sides
TPM Election Central —
... As Think Progress notes, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) told Don Imus today he doesn't support the Baucus bill, citing increased costs as his reason without fully embracing the AHIP report. ...
Snowe Votes Aye
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... But she cautions: “My vote today is my vote today, it doesn’t forecast what my vote would be tomorrow.”By voting yes, she actually would get more leverage out of a no vote on cloture for the final legislation, which she'll still be under intense pressure to cast. The need to try to keep the legislation "bipartisan" may also allow Snowe to haul out the same arbitrary chainsaw she used to gut the stimulus bill. I guess we'll see. Meanwhile, Joe Lieberman is still abominable. ...
Not moderate enough for Lieberman
Political Animal —
... the reform effort for months, told Don Imus today he opposes the Baucus bill , and again argued that he doesn't even like the idea of working on health care reform. "I've been saying for a couple of months now that I'm concerned, that I'm concerned that there's a danger that we're trying to do too much here and the president is trying to do two good things. But doing them at once in the middle of a recession may be hard to pull off." This is just so absurd. Health care reform, if it passes, will take years to be implemented. There's no reason for a recession to interfere with ...
Senate Finance Committee Passes Bill 14-9: What Now?
Firedoglake —
... calling on Reid to force those in the caucus who would join a Republican filibuster into the open. The aide told me that nobody in the caucus has stated their willingness to join a filibuster, though Joe Lieberman flirted with that on Imus today. As long as nobody wants to be saddled with killing the public option, it remains alive. Though now, expect a push to blame Olympia Snowe for having to kill it as a concession for her support, even though from a numbers standpoint, that makes no sense. ...
Important Announcement
Shakesville —
Joe Lieberman is still totes an asshole. [I guess I'll be making this announcement approximately once a month for the foreseeable future.] ...
Will Joe Lieberman Vote Against Health-Care Reform?
Ezra Klein —
... This morning, Joe Lieberman told Don Imus that he couldn't vote for the Senate Finance Committee's bill. "I may have made a major error focusing on red state Democrats and overlooking Lieberman," ...
FDL Action Health Care Update: Tuesday (10/13/09)
Blue Virginia —
... of the longer journey to passage." Dayen lays out the possible paths moving forward, and cites the "hard but not impossible" chance " to influence the process at this point." Finally, Dayen reports that "nobody in the caucus has stated their willingness to join a filibuster, though Joe Lieberman flirted with that on Imus today." Good ol' Joe Lieberman, eh? ...
The PUMAs should be happy; we have a woman president now, and her name is Olympia Snowe
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... is a single-payer system," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. "If we ever go to that system we'll rue the day." The whole situation is sort of a case of turnabout as fair play; if people like Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson could go through eight years of the Bush administration giving "bipartisan" cover to wars and tax cuts, the GOP doesn't have much credibility in complaining that Snowe's vote doesn't count now. (Lieberman may be back to his old ways, anyway -- he told Don Imus Tuesday he wasn't sure he'd vote for the bill himself.) ...
10/14: Snowed
Blogometer —
... Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to "put a public option in the combined Senate bill that is brought to the floor," even if it causes Snowe to withdraw her support from the bill. Meanwhile, lefty bloggers are blasting Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) for announcing his opposition to the Finance Committee bill on Don Imus 's radio show. They netroots are ...
Did Lieberman Kill The Public Option?
Wonk Room —
... But Lieberman isn’t interested in the policy details. Earlier this month, the senator registered his opposition to the Baucus bill, which did not contain a public option. During today’s conference call, Lieberman opened the door to supporting a plan “ ...
UPDATED: Joe Lieberman's healthcare plan for America
Attytood —
... , but Joe Lieberman is instead siding with his campaign contributors : $2,395,369 from the health sector and $1,033,402 from the insurance industry during his undistinguished Senate career. Researchers at the Harvard Medical School say that ...
Joe Lieberman To The People Of Connecticut: Go To Hell
Daily Kos —
... So who is he representing? Lieberman has accepted $2,395,369 in donations from the health sector and $1,033,402 from the insurance industry.
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Joe Lieberman admits he prefers we don't pass health care reform at all
AMERICAblog News —
... , if the choice is between a bill with the public option and no bill at all. The thing is, Lieberman just got caught in a lie. As ThinkProgress points out, Lieberman opposed Baucus' health care bill, legislation that didn't include the public option at all. Not to mention, three years ago when Lieberman was up for reelection, ...
Lieberman: No reform is better than reform with a public option
The Reaction —
... In his discussion with Schieffer, Lieberman acted as though the public option was the only thing stopping him from supporting health care reform. But this ignores the fact that Lieberman opposed the Baucus bill last month, which did not contain a public option. Apparently, Lieberman truly just wants "nothing" when it comes to health care reform. ...
Lieberman cites Finance Committee bill he opposed to justify Medicare flip-flop.
The Hollywood Liberal —
... Reid’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and will provide even greater relief for those 55-65 years old. Any inclusion of a Medicare buy-in for that same age group would be duplicative of what is already in the bill , would put the government on the hook for billions of additional dollars, and would potentially threaten the solvency of Medicare, which is already in a perilous state. Unmentioned by Masonhall, however, is the fact that Lieberman told Don Imus in October that he opposed the Finance Committee bill because he thought it was “trying to do too much” and was ...
