Joe Lieberman

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• White House Considers Conrads "Entitlement Reform" Commission

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 803
  Kent Conrad is trying to sell his Social Security/Medicare cutting commission idea to the White House, and they seem to be listening, to a degree. To briefly recap: Senators from both parties on Tuesday put new pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to turn the power to trim entitlement benefits over to an ...
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• Happy Thanksgiving

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 523
  Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. I wish everyone a very safe and happy holiday. I hope that you’re able to spend it with your loved ones. This is short list, it is not exhaustive. This is what I’m thankful for: I’m thankful for a wonderful, loving wife and family . I could not be more blessed. ...
  2 days ago

• Dean Responds to Liebermans Threat to Filibuster Health Care

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 612
  Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean responds to Sen. Joe Liebermans (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...
  2 days ago

• Howard Dean: Lieberman should relinquish chairmanship if he supports anti health care reform filibuster

  
  AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Authority: 157
  Howard Dean : "I think that [Lieberman] is a very complicated guy," said Dean. "He does [confuse me] because he says hes a principled guy but theres nothing principled about holding up a bill... If he was a principled guy hed resign his chairmanship." "If you are with a caucus you dont owe the leader any vote on any ...
  2 days ago

• Your Thanksgiving Holiday Reading

  
  King Politics — Authority: 137
  Politics John Nichols says todays Republican Party has become so ideologically rigid that even Ronald Reagan would fail their purity test. Why? People forget, but even Reagan raised taxes . He recognized fiscal insanity had its limits. Todays Republicans consider it heresy to even mention tax increases. Look, it ...
  3 days ago

• Thankstaking Day

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 129
  Washington, DC has wound down, and all the Congress members are hurrying home to be with family and constituents. Oh, and there may be a chance for them to visit a few sugar daddies and receive a campaign contribution or two. That’s why they call this Thankstaking Day . For most in Congress, everyday is ...
  3 days ago

• Lieberman Leaves the Public Option in Doubt

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 750
  Public option supporters who have looked at TWI’s Senate Public Option Scoreboard in the past few hours are probably dismayed to see that the math simply doesn’t add up for passage of health reform legislation with a government-run health insurance plan. That’s the result of comments today by Sen. Joe ...
  3 days ago

• Grand Compromise in Senate? Public Option to Be Limited to Guy Named ‘Fred’

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 550
  “AND JUST TO TRY TO GET SENATORS LIEBERMAN, NELSON AND LINCOLN ON BOARD, WE CHERRY-PICKED THIS GUY ‘FRED’ PRECISELY BECAUSE HE NEVER EVEN GOES OUT IN PUBLIC.”
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  FAUX NEWS NETWORK — Authority: 118
  FAHRENHEIT 480 No developed country on earth has a private insurance industry that is so profit driven and so high priced that it eats up such a huge percentage of every dollar that Americans earn. In the last 8 years they have ad a 480% profit, and 20% of their workforce is devoted to denying claims. Its ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  FAUX NEWS NETWORK — Authority: 118
  A JOE LIEBERMAN WAKE UP?? Yesterday on Meet the Press, Joe Lieberman (I-CT) may have lost some cred for the anti-insomniac Jo-Dos, which of course is a recording of his voice. He said he would not vote for a health care bill that would raise the deficit. To his credit David Gregory responded by asking Joe ...
  3 days ago

• Yet More on Lieberman

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 709
  This seems largely correct to me: So why is he doing this? Because he’s bitter. According to former staffers and associates, he was upset by his dismal showing in the 2004 Democratic presidential primary. And he was enraged by the tepid support he got from many party leaders in 2006, when he lost the Democratic ...
  4 days ago

• PhRMA Ad Targets Lieberman Over Health Reform

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  As the debate over health care reform turns to competing House and Senate bills, the industry trade group is running this ad in which seniors are asked to call Joe Lieberman, the independent US Senator from Connecticut, and urge him to support health reform. More specifically, the ad says that, if Lieberman supports ...
  4 days ago

• Joe Lieberman: "No."

  
  HolyCoast.com — Authority: 578
  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: "Im going to be stubborn on this." Stubborn, he means, in opposing any health-care ...
  4 days ago

• The Blunder

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 709
  I will admit that in the immediate aftermath of the election, it wasnt 100% clear that Reid blundered by letting Holy Joe keep his committee chairmanship; it was certainly the most plausible scenario, but there was at least some chance that in exchange for keeping his perks Ried had good reason to believe that ...
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• Why Arent Self-Proclaimed Fiscal Conservatives Questioning Afghanistan Troop Surge?

  
  DISSENTING JUSTICE — Authority: 536
  Self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives in both the Democratic and Republican parties approach healthcare reform with a high degree of skepticism. Senator Joe Lieberman, who has received $1 million from the insurance industry over the course of his Senate career, has vowed to oppose any reform package that contains ...
  4 days ago

• Analyses: Joe Lieberman said “yes” to Reid’s Saturday night massacre bill, but who was massacred?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  In 2006 when Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman was fighting for his political life in a primary with Ned Lamont, he found himself abandoned by his “friends” in the Democrat Party. Being a former VP candidate meant nothing to those who wanted his head. Ultimately Lieberman was even betrayed by fellow Connecticut ...
  4 days ago

• Democrats play games with health care while Americans are hurting

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Health , Bankruptcy , Insurance-health Im one of those 30 million people without health insurance. I dont have it, my wife doesnt have it, my daughter doesnt have it. The short version of the story goes like this. A couple of years ago, I received a note from my insurer that they were going to be ...
  4 days ago

• Joe-Mentum is Mocked by Two Bespectacled Atheist Bloggers

  
  Bloc Raisonneur — Authority: 124
  Joe Lieberman is on everyones last nerve. He endorsed John McCain, hes threatening to filibuster health care, and if you believe my paranoid tweets , hes also filibustering the birth of my first child. Well, at least two of us have had enough, and we needed to express our outrage in the only way we knew how. Bad ...
  4 days ago

• Lieberman Standing His Ground Over Public Option

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 575
  Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) is standing his ground against the public option. And it sounds like he’s quite serious. The Wall Street Journal reported: Sen. Joseph Lieberman, speaking in that trademark sonorous baritone, utters a simple statement that translates into real trouble for Democratic leaders: ...
  4 days ago

• Yes. That Lamont primary challenge worked out *so* well.

  
  Moe Lane — Authority: 667
  Erick Erickson over at RedState covered this already : Lieberman Digs In on 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 ...
  4 days ago

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