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Joe Lieberman’s Not-So-Shocking Anti-Reform Position

Of course none of us should stunned by Senator Joe Lieberman’s assertion that he intends to join the GOP in filibustering the debate on the floor. He doesn’t want to even allow the conversation to continue if the bill includes a public option, in any form. Connecticut is loaded with insurance and pharmaceutical companies and they are major contributors to his campaign fund. (Purdue Pharma [http://www.purduepharma.com/], ISP [http://online1.ispcorp.com/en-us/pages/default.aspx], and Aetna health insurance [http://www.aetna.com/]), all in the top ten. So it’s no surprise that this loser from New England is bucking the caucus and putting his wallet ahead of the American people. Now this from the Daily Koz [http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/28/797969/-Hadassah-Liebermans-Ties-to-the-Insurance-Industry], which points out that the lying senator’s wife Hadassah has been employed by Hill & Knowlton, the “legendary lobbying and PR firm hired her as a ‘senior counselor’ in its ‘health and pharmaceuticals practice.” This is the same lobbying firm that spent “... the past decade as a defendant in tobacco class-action lawsuits because of its role in propaganda disputing the deadly effects of smoking.” Why this opportunistic, self-centered, turncoat had been given any significance within the caucus in the first place was curious at best. Following his defeat in the Democratic primary, he shifted his party affiliation and ran as an independent and then campaigned for and endorsed John McCain. He was forgiven by Obama and given a prominent leadership role as a reward. Shame on the president for being so unforgiving and gullible in thinking that this coward would do anything but that which would benefit his own, personal interests. It’s time to put this fraud in his place, recognize his completely selfish motivations, and stop pretending that he has any interests whatsoever in moving this nation progressively forward.