Via Michelle Malkin, Politico reports that Senator Joe Lieberman has stated he will back a GOP filibuster of Senate health care bill unless it’s changed.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.
Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance program — even if it includes a provision allowing states to opt out of the program, as Reid’s has said the Senate bill will.
“We’re trying to do too much at once,” Lieberman said. “To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt. I don’t think we need it now.”
Lieberman added that he’d vote against a public option plan “even with an opt-out because it still creates a whole new government entitlement program for which taxpayers will be on the line.”
His comments confirmed that Reid is short of the 60 votes needed to advance the bill out of the Senate, even after Reid included the opt-out provision. Several other moderate Democrats expressed skepticism at the proposal as well, but most of the wavering Democratic senators did not go as far as Lieberman Tuesday, saying they were waiting to see the details.
Sorry Harry. Your little gimmicks and tricks aren’t going to work this time. Even Senator Evan Bayh might bail.
Lieberman is older and trying to get into heaven.
Why he caucuses with the Dems after they threw him under the bus is beyond me.
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*Lieberman added that he’d vote against a public option plan “even with an opt-out because it still creates a whole new government entitlement program for which taxpayers will be on the line.”*
This is why I love Joe. Even though he’s a Democrat in the original — not uber-liberal– sense of the word. Every time it comes to the critical issues for me, Joe is on the right side of things. If we can’t have a conservative, then how I wish we had Joe, instead of the mook in the White House now.
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