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Healthcare
9 hours ago
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Leiberman
I don't mind reactionaries being elected in reactionary areas. There are cultural, ideological, geographic and historical explanations for different political perspectives. But to waste a New England senate seat on Joe Leiberman is really frustrating. He was the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate! He has turned into a full right wing ideologue. It seems he needs to punish the Democrats who voted against him in the last primary. Take that, Joe is saying. He should be recalled. What a disaster.
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As someone said, "What's more, his arguments against a public option are full of shit".
ReplyDeleteThe Senate needs more independent thinkers like Leiberman rather than party ideologues.
ReplyDeleteDave, I think the post was meant more as a comment about party politics than independent thinking. Olympia Snow is willing to part from her party's line but she represents a moderate constituency so the disconnect is less jarring and potentially grid lock producing than Lieberman's (former leader of his PARTY who only (barely) held onto his senate seat by dint of incumbency stickiness and weak (i.e., newbie) opposition (Ned Lamont)). Debating the public option is one thing, being a sore loser is another. What we need is less "dithering" about the public option - since when did competition become a bad idea (oh yeah - since the health insurance industry said so).
ReplyDeleteThere is explicit campaign footage in a debate of Leiberman calling for universal health care. He can do whatever he wants, but my point is that has turned way to the right. I think if you re-voted in Conn. and it was known that Leiberman would become McCain's number one supporter and speak in prime time at the Republican National Convention in an anti-Obama tirade, and that he would be the prime force in squashing a public option for health insurance, he would have not gotten the many democratic votes he actually received out of loyalty and trust. He would never have won. He was Gore's running mate. What happened?
ReplyDeleteLieberman was selected as Gore's running mate exactly because he is less left-leaning than Gore. His selection was for balance to the Democratic ticket. He is not a reactionary. He fits better under the label of 'Blue Dog' Democrat or Independent (made necessary because his opponent endorsed by Democrats in the CT race was so far left)
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