Archive for 10/09
Letting the GOP Stop Healthcare Reform Didn’t Make Joe Lieberman Feel Douchey Enough
- Sen. Joe Lieberman (R, bascially-CT) will campaign for Republicans in 2010 and then run for re-election in 2012 on the highly popular “with us on everything but the war” platform. (ABC News)
- Whoops! Somebody accidentally put the names of over 30 members of Congress who are under investigation by the House Ethics Committee on “The Internet.” Unfortunately, the Washington Post is also aware of this “Internet,” so they have that list now. (WaPo)
- While you were sanitizing your hands for the 83rd time of the day last night, America got its Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin! Swine flu vaccines for everyone! (CNN Political Ticker)
- Nobody in the Parks and Recreation Department in Frederick, MD, could have predicted that hanging dummies that look like dead bodies from trees, a la a lynching, might not appeal to the city’s residents. (Frederick News-Post)
- Even Stephen Colbert does not care for the Guantanamo Bay prison and the torture that goes on there. (New Security Action)
- Oh look, totally unbiased FOX News is bringing back the “death panel” lie, in case you’d thought the healthcare debate had calmed down too much. I bet Robert Gibbs will say something mean to them again! (TPM)
Wanker of the Day
Late Night Gaybraham Lincoln
Sorta NSFW.
How Much Will Wingnuts Pay for the Privilege of Sarah Palin Running for President?
- For the low, low price of $100,000, Sarah Palin will come to Iowa to run for President. But only once the check clears. (Politico)
- Nancy Pelosi and the House of Representatives are jumping on Harry Reid’s announce-a-healthcare-reform-bill bandwagon, with their own healthcare reform bill. (House Committee on Education and Labor)
- Speaking of which, the insurance industry is not a fan of this healthcare bill, which would allow Americans to get health insurance from somewhere that is not the insurance industry. (TPMDC)
- Chris Christie is a fatty-fat fatty! It’s okay, he wants people to talk about this instead of talking about the time he maybe ran some guy over in his car. (CNN Political Ticker)
- Oh look, your economy is getting better now, thanks to cash-for-clunkers and some other things that were totally Socialism until they started working. (NYT)
Quote of the Day
If this is organized, we suck.
–Teabagger Joann Abbot, after only ten people showed up to this morning’s well-advertised tea party “flashmob” in response to Nancy Pelosi unveiling of the House healthcare bill.
Google Doodle
Acrostics with Arnold
The controversy over Gov. Schwarzenegger’s latest veto message (PDF) has a somewhat humorous backstory, but the important part is that Schwarzenegger obviously does not intend to kiss Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s gay ass.
NRSC Gets Joe-mentum
If it walks like a Republican and talks like a Republican, then Republicans are going to use it to their benefit:
“Senator Lieberman should be commended today for sticking with his principles and standing against efforts by Democrat leaders in Washington to ram through a controversial and massive government health care bill,” says NRSC spokesman Colin Reed in a statement aimed at Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.)–a liberal in a red state who has shown no sign of bucking the public option, but faces a (somewhat remote) re-election threat if Gov. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) runs next year. “The question many in Washington and in North Dakota are waiting to have answered, however, is where do Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad stand? Will they stand with Harry Reid and his partisan government-run health care bill or will they stand with North Dakota taxpayers who are already facing an unimaginable federal debt? Both Senators have had more than enough time to study this issue and understand its consequences on North Dakota taxpayers – it’s time they made their position clear as Senator Lieberman did today.”
The NRSC is sending more or less the same statement to reporters in Louisiana, Nebraska, Florida, and Indiana.
With Us on Everything But the War… and Healthcare
Take a listen to Senate Majority Leader (or at least that’s his title) Harry Reid on alleged Democrat Joe Lieberman in 2007:
First of all, Joe Lieberman, Joe Lieberman is my friend, and he is a good Democrat, votes with us on everything, except the war. So Joe Lieberman is easy to work with.
And here’s a little trip down memory lane to the immediate aftermath of the election, courtesy of Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN):
Joe [Lieberman] did say some things. Not his support of John McCain. I think everybody understands that supporting your friend is perfectly legitimate. He said some things that perhaps crossed the line in terms of questioning Senator Obama’s, you know, patriotism or things like that.
And I think if Joe came before the caucus and said look, if I said some things that came as offensive, I’m sorry, but… they were — you know heartfelt in my support of John McCain. I think we had to just let bygones be bygones. We’re going to need him on healthcare and energy independence and education and a whole lot of other things.
You can probably guess where this is going.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.
Campaigning for the Republican candidate for president. Questioning the patriotism of the future Democratic President of the United States. Voting to let the GOP obstruct Democratic plans for healthcare reform. And for this he gets spot in the Democratic leadership of the Senate!
What else does this guy have to do to get himself kicked out of the Democratic caucus and stripped of his committee chairmanship? The old “we need his 60th vote to prevent a filibuster” excuse obviously no longer applies.
Connecticut folks: let Holy Joe know how you feel.
Update: As you might expect, Lieberman’s announcement is great news for the insurance industry.
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