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Think Progress: Lieberman in 1994: Filibuster is ‘unfair’ and it isn’t ‘right’ to use it to obstruct major legislation.
THE COMMON PROGRESSIVE: LIEBERMAN ONCE AGAIN SHOWS HIS HYPOCRISY
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@drgrist Filibuster reform, like what Lieberman and Harkin proposed in 94 should be priority #1 for progressives http://bit.ly/2Wbk5G 11/5/2009 |
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Joe Lieberman In '94: The Filibuster "Ails Washington" And Should Be Eliminated http://bit.ly/4qHDQ #hcr #dumpjoe 11/2/2009 |
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He's glad this nvr passed RT@huffingtonpost Lieberman In '94: The Filibuster "Ails Washington" And Should Be Eliminated http://bit.ly/1ongb2 11/2/2009 |
Lieberman in 1994: Filibuster is ‘unfair’ and it isn’t ‘right’ to use it to obstruct major legislation.
Think Progress —
... the power of the filiibuster. HuffPost’s Sam Stein recalls that the Connecticut senator said it was “unfair” to use the filibuster to threaten major legislation and argued it isn’t “right” to use it to obstruct progress: ...
LIEBERMAN ONCE AGAIN SHOWS HIS HYPOCRISY
THE COMMON PROGRESSIVE —
... of health reform legislation if the bill does not meet his requirements. Sure is strange seeing as how Lieberman supported getting rid of the filibuster a little more than a decade ago. My how times change Joe. You see, it seems that Lieberman is making all the political noise he can, because lets be honest with ourselves, Lieberman has so few friends left and he is quickly fading away and becoming irrelevant. Will Joe really be a spoiler for the Democrats this go round? READ MORE HERE! ...
Slaying the 'dinosaur'
Political Animal —
SLAYING THE 'DINOSAUR'.... Now there's a senator I can agree with -- a young New England Democrat who realizes that the filibuster is an institutional menace. He not only calls the parliamentary maneuver "a dinosaur" that had become "a symbol of a lot that ails Washington today," he actually took steps to kill the filibuster once and for all. The senator is Joe Lieberman ... in 1994 . At the time, Lieberman, part of a Democratic minority, believed Senate obstructionism had gone too far. Even though Republicans had the majority, he and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) decided to take the ...
Joe Lieberman in 1994: 'The abuse of the filibuster [is] bipartisan and so its demise should be bipartisan as well'
Ezra Klein —
This is a helluva catch by Sam Stein:
"[People] are fed up -- frustrated and fed up and angry about the way in which our government does not work, about the way in which we come down here and get into a lot of political games and seem to -- partisan tugs of war and forget why we're here, which is to serve the American people. And I think the filibuster has become not only in reality an obstacle to accomplishment here, but it also a symbol of a lot that ails Washington today."
"But I do want to say that the Republicans ...
Joe Lieberman, 15 years ago...
Daily Kos —
Hypocrite: Fifteen years ago, as a freshman Democrat, Lieberman actually worked to have the filibuster killed. He deemed the parliamentary maneuver "a dinosaur" that had become "a symbol of a lot that ails Washington today." And, in tandem with Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), he introduced legislation that -- if it had been enacted -- would have made his current opposition to health care absolutely toothless. Lieberman was right. The filibuster is part of what ails Washington today. Except that now, Lieberman is part of the ...
For Democrats, time to cut ties with Lieberman
The Reaction —
... Back in his more Democratic days, back when he was genuinely a member of the party, and presumably happy to be so, he argued that the filibuster -- not just any one filibuster but the filibuster generally -- "ails Washington." ...
links for 2009-11-01
Grasping Reality with a Ten-Foot-Long Flexible Trunk —
... Sam Stein: Lieberman In '94: The Filibuster "Ails Washington" And Should Be Eliminated
Brad DeLong: Okay! Okay! Uncle! Uncle! ...
Lieberman Pledges To Filibuster House Bill: The Public Option Is ‘Unnecessary’
Think Progress —
... even though it didn’t have a public option, and in 1994, his “conscience” told him that the filibuster was “unfair” and shouldn’t be used to block major legislation. He has also asserted that the public option would raise premiums and increase the debt, even though ...
Lieberman’s Ego and Cao’s Conscience
The Moderate Voice —
... even though it didn’t have a public option, and in 1994, his “conscience” told him that the filibuster was “unfair” and shouldn’t be used to block major legislation. He has also asserted that the public option would raise premiums and increase the debt, even though ...
Lieberman Pledges To Filibuster House Bill: The Public Option Is ?Unnecessary?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... even though it didn’t have a public option, and in 1994, his “conscience” told him that the filibuster was “unfair” and shouldn’t be used to block major legislation. He has also asserted that the public option would raise premiums and increase the debt, even though ...
No one is more full of shit than Joe Lieberman
The Reaction —
... even though it didn't have a public option, and in 1994, his "conscience" told him that the filibuster was "unfair" and shouldn't be used to block major legislation. He has also asserted that the public option would raise premiums and increase the debt, even though ...
Harkin to take another shot at the 'dinosaur'?
Political Animal —
HARKIN TO TAKE ANOTHER SHOT AT THE 'DINOSAUR'?.... Nearly 15 years ago, two Democratic senators -- Joe Lieberman and Tom Harkin -- decided that the filibuster had become an institutional menace . They called the parliamentary maneuver a "dinosaur" that had become "a symbol of a lot that ails Washington today," and presented a plan to kill the filibuster once and for all. It was after the election in which Republicans claimed congressional majorities, but the two Dems said it didn't matter -- even if the GOP would find it easier to pass legislation, the Senate needed to be able ...
The Insidious Myth of Reconciliation
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... He concedes that this is a long shot. Senators tend to like the filibuster. Attempts to reform it have tended to go down overwhelmingly -- by a 19 to 76 margin, for instance, on a bill introduced by Joe Lieberman (!) in 1994. That probably paints too pessimistic a picture -- the Republicans, after all, came fairly close to exercising the ...
