End This
It’s past time that the wholly-owned whores LIEberman and Ben(edict) Nelson were prevented from doing the bidding of their health insurer Johns anymore.
The reconciliation process exists, and it was used to subsidize the offshoring of millions of American jobs. You can’t tell me that if it can be used for something like that, we can’t go ahead and use it for health reform-something that might actually BENEFIT Americans, for a change.
Is it any wonder Americans have become disillusioned with the health reform process? Whores like LIEberman, Nelson, and Baucus water it down to a point where it is almost meaningless-and then LIEberman more or less says that the only “reform” he’s willing to support is NO REFORM AT ALL.
Reid, and the President, need to get this the hell over with. Let these whores cry to their Johns about how badly they’ve been wronged.
Dashing the hopes of Democratic lawmakers Sunday, Sen. Joseph Lieberman signaled he would oppose a health care bill that includes a proposal to expand Medicare to people as young as 55.
The independent Connecticut senator has told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, that he would vote against the Medicare at 55 proposal. He also said he would oppose cloture and work with the GOP if it ends up in the final version of the bill, two Democratic sources told CNN Sunday.
Unanimous Republican opposition so far means Senate Democrats need all 60 votes in their caucus, which includes Lieberman, to pass the sweeping bill.
Earlier, on the CBS program “Face the Nation,” Lieberman and moderate Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska cited necessary changes to the bill before they would vote for it.
Lieberman outlined steps that he said would ensure the bill passes the Senate with support from Democrats and some Republicans. Forget about the government-run public health insurance option, Lieberman said, as well as the Medicare measure that was proposed last week as part of a package of alternatives to the public option.
Forget about ANYTHING that might cut into the profits of health insurers (and not coincidentally, his wife’s employment and his own campaign contributions.) Right, Joe?
It is past time this righteous little shitbag got his mouth shut for him. Not only does the Senate need to use reconciliation to finish the health reform process, they need to send Holy Joe over to his pals in the Rushpubliscum caucus. Somebody, grow a fucking SPINE, for Dog’s sake.
Tags: ben nelson, healthcare reform, LIEberman, obama, reconciliation, reid
December 14th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Huzzah! I’m sick to death of these little shits crowing like banty roosters. Enough, already.
December 14th, 2009 at 9:06 am
I tape the Sunday political shows. I simply could not watch Nelson and Lie-bermann. I know what they use to bolster their bullshit position.
I thought the folks in CT were smarter than they obviously are. Silly me…
December 14th, 2009 at 11:48 am
The whole process of reform has infuriated me beyond what I thought I could feel about politics.
Personally, I’m in favor of a rest-of-the-industrialized-world style single payer system.
We haven’t gotten that. We’re not going to get a public option. We’re not even going to get reasonable subsides or a prohibition against dropping patients or denying care.
What we’re going to get is a multi-trillion dollar corporate hand out in which the insurance companies won’t even get tax dollars. We’ll be legally compelled to write the checks directly to the companies.
December 15th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
I have more hate and contempt for LIEbermann than for anybody else in the Senate. The other rightwads are at least honest enough to call themselves Republicans.
LIEbermann’s latest Flipflop-gate — where he was in favor of expanding Medicare before he was against it — is the last straw.
Connecticut is a hard state to figure (I lived there for a long time). It’s liberal but it’s also 50% Catholic, so “family values” have a big role there. And since it’s the insurance capital of the universe, the HMO parasites have more clout there than just about anywhere.
December 16th, 2009 at 2:34 am
Add to Thomas’ list the fact that language ending the health insurers’ antitrust exemption was stripped out. Unbelievable, but true.
I, too, am so frustrated and disgusted I can hardly stand it.