Why Did Joe Lieberman Cross the Road?
Posted 11/07/09 by Dylan Matthews
While we wait for the House to pass a universal health care bill tonight for the first time in American history, David Rees at True/Slant is looking ahead to the Senate debate. Rees responds the only way he knows how to Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (Himself-CT) threat to filibuster any bill with a public option:
Joe Lieberman is on a lifeboat with a young woman who was denied insurance coverage because she was raped, a middle-class guy who can’t afford his premiums, and a sickly child. He stabs them all in the back.
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What do you get when you cross Joe Lieberman with a frog? A fascinating, frog-voiced lump of wrinkles whose blood runs cold with reptilian contempt for those in need. And a frog.
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Why did Joe Lieberman cross the road? I can only assume it’s because he sucks.
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What’s going on with health care reform
Posted 10/28/09 by Eva Lam
A lot has happened in the last few days: Harry Reid took a stand in favor of the public option; Steny Hoyer made noises about rolling out a similar bill in the House; Olympia Snowe and Joe Lieberman flipped out; threatened Dems like Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson are questionable; blogs reported and then questioned a pessimistic whip count that either did or didn’t come from James Clyburn’s office.. My head is still spinning. But some kind folks who populate my Google Reader have produced some great explanations.
On the policy end, Ezra Klein breaks down the three big options in the Senate: Snowe’s “trigger plan,” Tom Carper’s “opt-in,” and Chuck Schumer’s “opt-out.” And Nate Silver steps it up with a two-dimensional representation of major proposals floated in the House and Senate. And on the politics end, Marc Ambinder considers the political ramifications of the major options in the House and Senate. So have at it!
