NY Times: Lieberman Rules Out Voting for Health Bill

[IndianaGreen]

Lieberman Rules Out Voting for Health Bill

By ROBERT PEAR and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Published: December 13, 2009

WASHINGTON — In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said on Sunday that he would vote against the health care legislation in its current form.

The bill’s supporters had said earlier that they thought they had secured Mr. Lieberman’s agreement to go along with a compromise they worked out to overcome an impasse within the Democratic Party.

But on Sunday, Mr. Lieberman told the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, to scrap the idea of expanding Medicare and abandon any new government insurance plan or lose his vote.

On a separate issue, Mr. Reid tried over the weekend to concoct a compromise on abortion that would induce Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, to vote for the bill. Mr. Nelson opposes abortion. Any provision that satisfies him risks alienating supporters of abortion rights.

In interviews on the CBS News program “Face the Nation,” Mr. Lieberman and Mr. Nelson said the bill did not have the 60 votes it would need in the Senate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/health/policy/14health.html?_r=2&hp

[TwilightGardener]

1. Democrats--done in by their own spinelessness, greed, and treachery.

Idiots.

[rockymountaindem]

2. Lieberman: not a Democrat

If I didn't know better I'd say his continued presence owes more to a scheme between him and his conservative allies to defame the Democratic party and make his foul antics reflect on a party which is actually trying to do something right.

[IndianaGreen]

3. He was Gore's running mate in 2000

I still don't know who decided to put this bum on the ticket.

[Aramchek]

7. and yet it was a Green who cost Gore the Election

[IndianaGreen]

10. Nader never joined the Green Party. Lieberman did surrender on military ballots cast after Election

Day, and he did so right on national TV.

[Aramchek]

13. yet he was their candidate?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader_presidential_campaign,_2000

[rockymountaindem]

8. Allow me to correct myself. Lieberman: not a Democrat anymore.

Hasn't been since he lost the Democratic primary election in 2006.

[rwheeler31]

5. No just showing who is bought.

[pnwmom]

9. Lieberman isn't a Democrat. n/t

[MadMaddie]

12. No Democrats done in by giving the bastard concessions

They should have never allowed him to keep his seat. The olive branch that President Obama and the Dems held out to Lieberwhore is the very same branch he is shoving up the Dems ass.

At what point do the Dems get kicked in the head over and over do they say get rid of the baggage? Lieberwhore has done too much damage it's time to cut him lose.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. Until recently I've never actually wished somebody a serious and fatal illness.

Now I have.

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[hlthe2b]

6. Just when I think I've reached the limits of my contempt and

disgust for this poor excuse for a human being, he gives me reason to add a new layer and detest him all the more. Beyond that, my thoughts could be misinterpreted and get me in trouble, so I'll just stick a needle in the voodoo doll and move on....:evilgrin:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. I sure hope a lot of people rule out voting for Joe Lieberman.

I now think I hate that buttwipe as much as I loathe Dick Cheney.

[JanusAscending]

14. Trust me....

Holy Joe will NEVER WIN another election in Ct.!! If he wants to run for any office, he'd better move! I don't think he could get elected for dog catcher anywhere in the country now! He is a loathsome excuse for a human being, in my eyes.

[Hardrada]

16. When LIEberman finally goes to Hell, as he inevitably will,

I am sure he will find a very special place reserved for him. In the meantime we wish him no harm but that his actions be rendered futile at every turn.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. So, are they not even letting the bill come up for a vote?

:shrug:

We have the votes to pass it without them as long as we get a straight up-or-down vote (ya know, the ones that Repubs were always screaming for when Bush was in office?)

Somebody save me!!! My head is about to explode!!!
:argh:

[zulchzulu]

18. Pulling a "Lieberman" on someone is the legacy that asshat will be remembered by

If you pull a "Lieberman" on someone, you essentially are someone who is:

• Shortsighted and self-centered
  
• a turncoat who can't be trusted
  
• a slimy jackass who would sell out his mother for a buck
  
• a pathetic joke of a person
  

[LovinLife]

19. Its almost funny now. The guy is really worthless. NT