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Lieberman Reportedly Agrees Not to Join Health Care Reform Filibuster
Two sources say that Sen. Joe Lieberman has privately agreed with Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will not block a final vote on health care, The Hill reports. Last week, Lieberman said he would join Republicans in filibustering the bill if it included a government insurance option. His spokesman said Monday that nothing had changed since his statement last week, but Reid has been assuring liberal interest groups that Lieberman has said he will vote with the Democrats to end debate.Lieberman's vote is crucial to obtaining the 60-vote majority the Democrats will need to break an expected filibuster of the health care bill. Without him, Reid would be forced to persuade a Republican to break ranks, and even Sen. Olympia Snowe, who voted to send the bill out of committee, has said she will likely join her party in filibustering the final version.
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oxbow99
11:31AM Nov 3rd 2009
I hope Joe keep's his word.
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José
11:37AM Nov 3rd 2009
I wouldn't believe him if his tongue was notarized
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(18) Stella
1:34PM Nov 3rd 2009
Joe will not end debate on this issue and allow this garbage to come forward and pass with a nuclear option. He is a man of principle. Who do you trust more--Joe Liebermann or Harry Reid? Dirty Harry is lying once again to cover himself.
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(6) dumbasademocrat
11:38AM Nov 3rd 2009
YOU MEAN YOUR HOPING FOR COMMON SENSE TO PREVAIL?
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(9) rox66
1:11PM Nov 3rd 2009
Don't you just love when a wingnut uses "dumbasademocrat" as her name then doesn't know how to spell "you're" in a coherent sentence?
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(-8) Individualist2
11:50AM Nov 3rd 2009
It sickens me that he is SO in-the-pocket of the insurance lobby (that funded his campaign) while being SO out-of-touch with his constituents (who clearly want a public option.) Could there be a better argument for campaign finance reform?
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(-7) Carolyn
11:51AM Nov 3rd 2009
You can't believe Harry Reid. He is wheeling and dealing trying to keep his "liberal (read socialist/Marxist ) interest groups" from freaking out. If Lieberman does go back on his word that just makes him another common senatorial jerk and good reason to vote him out when his term expires.
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(15) Chris Williams
2:31PM Nov 3rd 2009
Which one is it? Marxist or socialist? Or do you use both since you don't exactly know. If you pick up a book you might.
Harry Reid is a Democratic Socialist. Most Democrats are. Bernie Sanders is the only one willing to admit it. The policies of the Democratic Party are about taking from those above to feed those below at no price or effort to them simply because its "the rich's obligation to help the poor." That is socialism but because we vote on these things it becomes Democratic.
Democrats are Democratic Socialists.
Harry Reid is a Democratic Socialist. Most Democrats are. Bernie Sanders is the only one willing to admit it. The policies of the Democratic Party are about taking from those above to feed those below at no price or effort to them simply because its "the rich's obligation to help the poor." That is socialism but because we vote on these things it becomes Democratic.
Democrats are Democratic Socialists.
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(0) moderate
11:51AM Nov 3rd 2009
yeah, lets continue to allow Americans to die, why do we need poor uninsured people in our country. Hey, lets start a new war and spend another couple trillion.
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(-12) Stella
1:40PM Nov 3rd 2009
Oh puleeze, spare us the theatrics--you're beginning to sound like nit-wit Alan Grayson! If this bad bill passes (and it won't), nothing will go into effect until 2013. So, I if you are fixated on counting the "dead" (who still die with our without health insurance), you'll still have four more years to see how many people will be "saved".
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(8) Alex Lekas
2:04PM Nov 3rd 2009
hyperbole much? No one is dying due to the lack of govt-run health insurance. The poor have Medicaid, hospitals are required to provide care to anyone who shows up, and the amount of money written off every year for charity care could bankroll several small countries. Period. Exclamation point.
If you are so worried about people dying, ask how many decisions are made for Medicare patients in which a cheaper course of action is taken due to the person's age. Why, that wouldn't be like rationing, now would it? Ask how many more will die if this bill, with its plan to cut Medicare by a half-billion, goes through. It's funny how you guys on the left always accuse opponents on relying on fear when it is the reality of what you propose that is scary.
If you are so worried about people dying, ask how many decisions are made for Medicare patients in which a cheaper course of action is taken due to the person's age. Why, that wouldn't be like rationing, now would it? Ask how many more will die if this bill, with its plan to cut Medicare by a half-billion, goes through. It's funny how you guys on the left always accuse opponents on relying on fear when it is the reality of what you propose that is scary.
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(5) moderate
4:00PM Nov 3rd 2009
Alex, the so called cuts to medicare are thru waste. Have you received your free hover craft? Stella, you are the queen of theatrics and truth is your king.
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(-3) buster
1:09PM Nov 4th 2009
MO,
Smack'em HARDER.
Smack'em HARDER.
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(0) Carole
11:58AM Nov 3rd 2009
Hey, Obamaites....our national debt is now 14 TRILLION dollars under Obama's reign. That is more than quadrupled then when Bush was in office. Our children are doomed and it has nothing to do with healthcare.
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(7) Bre
1:06PM Nov 3rd 2009
That's the price for getting us out of the hole the Bush Administration through the country us in.
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(-11) lowervalleydave
4:40PM Nov 3rd 2009
CAROLE
Your children are doomed good we won't have that many racist Republicans.
Your children are doomed good we won't have that many racist Republicans.
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(-2) diclajoh
12:14PM Nov 3rd 2009
The whole bunch needs tarred and feathered but if you want to know the REAL truth about WHY we had a financial crisis watch this and you will get it right out of the horses mouths.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
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(6) epsaklas
4:18PM Nov 3rd 2009
BS! The Democrats (and Republicans) encouraged looser borrowing standards, BUT -- the real cause of the mess we are in has nothing to do with that. The simple truth is that we borrowed far more than we could afford to pay, and the "we" includes far more "middle class" people than "poor" people. We as individuals and families blew it. While some blame can be sent towards the politicians for fostering easy money and not regulating it, far more can be sent towards the mortgage companies, banks, investment banks, real estate agents, credit card companies etc for encouraging the misuse of credit and borrowing power. But simply because the means to abuse credit was there, that does not exonerate the American public as a whole. We caused the crisis, no one else.
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(0) mqtphoto
12:45PM Nov 3rd 2009
Enjoy it now DEMS, because you are DONE in 2010.
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(6) kunzsp
1:28PM Nov 3rd 2009
Lieberman speaks with fork-tongue.
Phyllis Kunz
Phyllis Kunz
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