Loose Lips

Posted on 12/15/2009 at 3:47 pm by Bob Cesca

Lieberman only opposed the Medicare buy-in after he heard Congressman Weiner praising it.

And he said he was particularly troubled by the overly enthusiastic reaction to the proposal by some liberals, including Representative Anthony Weiner, Democrat of New York, who champions a fully government-run health care system.

“Congressman Weiner made a comment that Medicare-buy in is better than a public option, it’s the beginning of a road to single-payer,” Mr. Lieberman said. “Jacob Hacker, who’s a Yale professor who is actually the man who created the public option, said, ‘This is a dream. This is better than a public option. This is a giant step.’”

One of Benen’s commenters suggested that we vocally oppose a separate reconciliation bill that includes the public option and Medicare buy-in. BOOO! NO! We hateses reconciliation!

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  • GOVCHRIS1988

    Oh yeah, hes screwing us harder than Tiger Woods screwed all 175 of his hookers.

  • http://broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    GOV! It’s up to 175 now? He must’ve had a busy weekend.

  • mattpd

    I don’t believe anything he says. If it takes him hearing someone else is for it for senator palpitine to be against it, then it is clear it is not about anything other than Joe.Pass the bill.Add it back in reconciliationStrip his Chairmanship (sorry joe, when I found out you for keeping it, that made me against it).

  • eljefejeff

    funny Bob, when they first talked about the Medicare buy in, you actually said something like “shh, don’t tell anyone….this is the backdoor into Medicare for all…”

  • El Mystico

    I wonder if he would even have noticed, or if he just hear Rep Weiner talking about it and went “Oh no, I can’t let this happen… I won’t be in the spotlight anymore, boo hoo.” (That was in Jon Stewart Droopy voice, natch)I really don’t know how to deal with this douchetard. If we all just stopped listening to him, and never mentioned his name again, would it be possible that it would take away his source of energy and he’d shrivel up into the pathetic husk of a person that he really, truly is?Or just beat him up continually for the next 3 years until I move to Connecticut to work for the anyone who’s running against him… just pound on him for anything and everything until he looks like a piece of meat ready for the grilling. And I would be there with a barbecue fork. I don’t care if it’s Alec Baldwin or a bald spider monkey, Any-fucking-one but Lieberman, 2012!

  • roxsteady

    Now that John Gotti Jr. is out of jail, I’d like one of his frineds to pick up Joe and take him for a ride. Oneway!

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    This is what over $ 1 Million dollars from the Insurance lobby since 2005 buys.Okay!Let’s tackle Lobbying reform next!

  • Hielo

    PPPI agree, obviously, that without lobby reform our society will continue on the road to hell. If the health care crisis was not so harmful to so many, I would place top priority here.It is not a free speech issue. It is a bribery issue. The special interests can hassle the congressional shitheads all they want. Drive them nuts with threats of election losses, whatever.They cannot give or promise fucking money! Not for anything.The constitution does not protect bribery.This cannot be achieved with emails, phone calls, or elections alone. Only massive demonstrations will work at this point.