Lieberman logic

While I do find a number of reasons to oppose the current health care reform bill; Sen Joe Lieberman's 'really sick people will use it which will drive up the cost' is simply bizarre.

I really think Lieberman is driven by two things:
his desire to lord it over the Dems by rubbing their faces in the fact that they need his vote, and
keeping in favor with the big money insurance company interests in his home state.
I don't think those motivators are influenced much by common sense, morals or ethics.

snood wrote:

I really think Lieberman is driven by two things:
his desire to lord it over the Dems by rubbing their faces in the fact that they need his vote, and
keeping in favor with the big money insurance company interests in his home state.
I don't think those motivators are influenced much by common sense, morals or ethics.

yeah ok, so where is Harry Reid?

please tell me where you got that quote dys... it goes in the WTF hall of fame for sure....

While I do find a number of reasons to oppose the current health care reform bill; Sen Joe Lieberman's 'really sick people will use it which will drive up the cost' is simply bizarre.

please tell me where you got that quote dys... it goes in the WTF hall of fame for sure....

Lieberman is known as Sen. Aetna. There are 22,000 health insurance company employees in CT. Further, he has received millions in donations from the companies.

Bi-Polar Bear wrote:

please tell me where you got that quote dys... it goes in the WTF hall of fame for sure....

a clip played on MSNBC yesterday morning.

I have decided to start a rumor that it all goes back to the 2004 presidential race, when Lieberman not only failed to win any primaries, but was also bitten by either a rabid muskrat or a vampire disguised as a moose.

Other than that, my favorite explanation comes from Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, who theorized that Lieberman was able to go from Guy Who Wants to Expand Medicare to Guy Who Would Rather Kill Health Care Than Expand Medicare because he “isn’t actually all that smart.”

It’s certainly easier to leap from one position to its total opposite if you never understood your original stance in the first place, and I am thinking Chait’s theory could get some traction. “When I sat next to him in the State Senate, he always surprised me by how little he’d learned about the bill at the time of the vote,” said Bill Curry, a former Connecticut comptroller and Democratic gubernatorial nominee.

It's absolutely true that my personal opinions on the topic and Lieberman may have colored my account. I'm delighted to know Finn that your personal opinions don't colour your accounts of anything. That's quite an accomplishment. I also have personal opinions of Obama's surge in afghanistan, the economy. joblessness, the environment, racial discrimination, the failure of health care in the USA, corruption in our government, yes Finn I have numerous personal opinions on many topics.