That hat doesn't make you look like an idiot. It just accentuates it. Brings out the stupid in your eyes.
Joe Lieberman has announced that, while he will vote for the Senate’s health reform bill to be brought up for debate, he will not vote in favor of cloture to end debate and bring the bill to a vote. As always happens with Mr. Lieberman, I am surprised but I shouldn’t be. To Mr. Lieberman I say: Go with God. Please. Now. I dare you.
Joe Lieberman is about to enter the pantheon of ‘firsts’: First senator to break with his caucus and vote against cloture to end a filibuster. Arlin Specter has been a Democrat for a little more than six months (this time around) and he wasn’t even on anyone’s list of possible challenges. No, that decision requires a certain kind of tone-deafness and egotism that few, even in the esteemed halls of the United States Senate, could ever hope to achieve. Especially when the issue in question is the very health and quality of life of your own constituents.
Connecticut may be ranked sixth in the nation in health care quality, (as of 2007) but 64% of those Connecticut voters polled are in favor of a public option, so Lieberman’s opposition to his own caucus is not based on the wishes of his constituents. Is he considering the interests of his constituents? He certainly claims to be (according to Politico):
To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt. I don’t think we need it now.