Not just Lieberman: at least four Dem Senators operating in bad faith (Landrieu, Lincoln, Nelson)

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from OpenLeft:



Not just Lieberman: at least four Democratic Senators operating in bad faith
by: Chris Bowers

Mon Dec 14, 2009 at 13:23


There is rightly a lot of focus on how Joe Lieberman is acting in bad faith on the health care bill. He apparently had told Reid he was open to the deal, and he supported a Medicare buy-in only three months ago. However, it is wroth noting that he isn't the only one. Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, and Ben Nelson haven't exactly been consistent and forthcoming in their dealings on the public option, either.

Mary Landrieu. Landrieu has said she is a no vote on the public option for for quite some time, instead demanding a trigger:

Count Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) as a "no" vote on the public insurance option.

"I am not open to a public option, however I will remain open to a compromise - a full compromise," Landrieu told reporters Tuesday. "A public option is not something I support i don't think its the right way to go."

However, not long before she said that she opposed the public option, she said that she supported it. Landrieu signed a statement with Health Care for America Now, celaring the following:

Our government's responsibility is to guarantee quality affordable health care for everyone in America and it must play a central role in regulating, financing, and providing health coverage by establishing...

A choice of a private insurance plan, including keeping the insurance you have if you like it, or a public insurance plan without a private insurer middleman that guarantees affordable coverage.
But hey, what do promises like that mean to Mary Landrieu, given that she is not up for re-election again until 2014?


Blanche Lincoln. On November 21st, Blanche Lincoln declared on the floor of the Senate that she would filibuster any bill with a public option:

I have already alerted the Leader, and I am promising my colleagues that I am prepared to vote against moving to the next stage of consideration as long as a government-run public option is included.

At the exact same time that she said this, her website declared that she would be just fine with the public option: ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.openleft.com/diary/16479/not-just-lieberman-at-least-four-democratic-senators-operating-in-bad-faith

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1. I'm shocked i tell ya.

[Lerkfish]

2. at least they're consistent....ly awful

and should be primaried out of existence.

[WI_DEM]

3. So 4 bad apples out of 60 in dem caucus is dictating--get rid of the fillibuster.

[graywarrior]

4. One tumor is tough enough to deal with, but five is an absolute death sentence for the rest of us

[mamaleah]

5. How dare you stray from the Lieberman is the only one policy.

Have you not seen the 300 threads today? It's only Lieberman you are allowed to complain about.

[marmar]

6. I've joined in them....Lieberman blows chunks.....but he really isn't the only one.

nt

[mamaleah]

7. He definitely does.

I just wonder why these other 4 do not garner the same amount of disgust.

[marmar]

8. Perhaps they don't have as high a profile....and I don't think any of them has endorsed a Repug....

.... presidential candidate like Lieberman has.

But Blanche Lincoln deserves much more skewering for being a Wal-Mart shill, as does the utterly useless Ben Nelson and DINO Landrieu.

[tonyreedo]

9. Absolutely true- Lieberman ain't the only Turncoat Democrat

Lincoln, Landrieu, Lieberman are all beholden to their health sector and Big Pharma benefactors at the expense of health care reform for millions of Americans.

Please enjoy and share this Photoshop photo of Joe Lieberman as Benedict Arnold, turncoat.

Vote all the turncoats out first chance we get!!!