Posted on 10/31/2009 9:49:01 AM PDT by SmithL
Is there a more hypocritical figure in American politics than Joe Lieberman? The Connecticut senator declared Tuesday that he would support a filibuster of any health care reform bill that has a public option - even the version with the "trigger" compromise accepted by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe - because it might cost money.
"I think that a lot of people may think that the public option is free," said Lieberman, one of the Senate's big spenders, in a suddenly frugal mood. "It's not. It's going to cost the taxpayers and people that have health insurance now, and if it doesn't, it's going to add terribly to our national debt."
This from a senator who, as much as anyone, helped run up the national debt since Sept. 11 by pushing to raise the military budget to its highest level since World War II. It is a budget inflated by enormous expenditures on high-tech weaponry irrelevant to combating terror, such as the $2-billion-a-piece submarines - produced in his home state of Connecticut - that he claimed were needed to combat al Qaeda, a landlocked enemy holed up in caves. Lieberman is worried about the impact of a very limited public option on the debt the same week as he and others in Congress passed a $680 billion defense bill larded with pork of the sort the Connecticut senator has always supported.
Lieberman, whose state is also home to insurance companies that are opposed to any consumer-friendly medical coverage alternative, boldly stated that his opposition to even the most limited version of a public option should not be surprising: "I think my colleagues know for a long time that I've been opposed to a government-created, government-run insurance company."
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Robert Scheer ....Pffft!!!
Scheer idiocy.
Lieberman is the quintessential politician. Anyone that believes he has anything more than his own future in mind is allowing themselves to be deceived.
I love it! Not confident that Leiberman is reliable but it’s nice to see the libs turn on each other. Do whatever you can to defeat the left wing destruction of America
He doesn’t?
Must be a democrat.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Oh, hell yeah!
Just about all of the Dems and quite a few Repubs, too!
Ill never forget when he went prochoice just to run for VP.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Idiocy. First he complains that Lieberman is a big spender, and then he calls him a hypocrite for voting against ObamaCare because it will be big spending.
What, does he want Lieberman to drop the filibuster and get with the spending?
Thanks, I’ll take any help we can get. If Harry Reid votes against it, I’ll even thank him for his vote.
You are too kind.
I see the obvious antisemitism here. Little Bobbie Scheer calls Joe a tightwad for noting that the Constitution does not allow the Fedgov to run health care.
I agree, but Lieberman is not trustworthy.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
If you're going to write, have something to say.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Scheer’s lunacy notwithstanding, these are the people who hailed Jeffords, Chafee and Specter as ‘moderates.’ I swear, in every aspect of their character, the polar left and right in this country are literally mirror opposites. It’s truly a ‘bizzaro world’ we’re dealing with. I believe that there is no longer even a chance that the two sides in this country will be able to co-exist peacefully. The ideological gulf is too wide and too deep. The hatred will only intensify, and the American political class only sees it all to be an opportunity for them to become the American ruling class.
Medicare and Social Security will require growing amounts of federal income tax revenue. Today, 6.9 percent of federal income taxes go towards the two programs. Dr. Thomas Saving of Texas A & M University, a public trustee of the Medicare and Social Security trust funds, estimates that, in 2020, 26.6 percent of all federal income taxes will go to paying for Medicare and Social Security. By 2030, that number will increase to 49.7 percent
What this shows is that Medicare and SS are ALREADY over the 680 Billion and will exponentially grow! Even though I'm soon slated to join the ranks of the beneficiaries, I can see that this isn't sustainable. Old people aren't going to protect you, aren't going to produce, aren't going to do anything but be a drain on resources. This has to stop. I don't advocate death panels or the like but I don't think that giving up the future of this country to keep old people in the styles to which they've become accustomed will work much longer.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
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