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Also, if voting your conscience was more common then pretending to do so wouldn't get you attention like a child acting out at the grocery store.
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2.Sen.Reid and President Obama are to blame for this asshole. I could care less what Lieberman calls himself, he damn near was an usher at the Republican Convention. The fact that he supported McCain doesn't bother me as much as the lies he said about his beloved "Baruch".
3.Lieberman is such a despicable "human being".
4. If only the Holy Trinity-Pelosi/Frank/Grayson-could get to Lieberman it would make me deliriously happy. #joelieberman
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Hadassah #joelieberman
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@Grandpapular: Nine years ago he was in the Democratic presidential ticket, his ticket won the popular vote, but he "feels" he doesn't owe you a thing? Of course not, because politically he's Joe Hooker.
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I had no idea that providing freedom of choice was such a bad thing. #joelieberman
10/28/09
Many Americans may support the public option, but, unfortunately the Senate is flawed because some Senators represent a tiny amount of people giving those people a hugely disproportionate amount of influence. Yet, more importantly, it takes away the influence of the ginormous amount of us other Americans (who support the public option), allowing these special interests with gobs and gobs of money to sway these Senators without them having to worry about any sort of backlash from their backwoods country bumpkin constituency.
And that, my friend, is why the public option is "so awful." #joelieberman
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Whatever the rest of the country thinks of it, straddling the middle makes you very popular with Connecticut voters. Combine that with the fact that the insurance companies employ a lot of people in Connecticut, and this makes Lieberman's move potentially a smart one.
Plus, Harry Reid can't do much to him because if he does defect, then the Democrats lose 60, which will mean that Reid will end up having to go to beg, well, Lieberman, everytime he wants to break cloture. #joelieberman
10/28/09
Also, I would be surprised if Joe gets a bounce by opposing the public option favored by a large majority of voters in CT. #joelieberman
10/28/09
Seriously, the Senate needs a Alan Grayson-type ball-buster to call out motherfuckers like Lieberman on the Senate floor in front of C-SPAN: "With all due respect to the Senator from Connecticut, haven't you received close to the $4M dollars from the insurance and healthcare sector during your career? Doesn't your wife work as a lobbyist on behalf of the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries? Isn't your state the epicenter of the health insurance industry in this country? Doesn't this represent a conflict of interest, Senator? And, doesn't Connecticut have a public option? Do you support that system? If so, and again with all due respect Senator, doesn't that make you a grovelling hypocrite for deciding to filibuster this bill because - according to you - it contains a public option? You, sir, are an epic tool. I yield the remainder of my time."
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To build Joementum. Lots and lots and lots and lots of Joementum. #joelieberman
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