Lieberman Says No To Any Public Option

Joe Lieberman said he will vote no on Harry Reid's latest rendition of health care reform. 

Lieberman Rules Out Voting for Health Bill

By ROBERT PEAR and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Published: December 13, 2009

WASHINGTON — In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said on Sunday that he would vote against the health care legislation in its current form.

The bill’s supporters had said earlier that they thought they had secured Mr. Lieberman’s agreement to go along with a compromise they worked out to overcome an impasse within the Democratic Party.

But on Sunday, Mr. Lieberman told the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, to scrap the idea of expanding Medicare and abandon any new government insurance plan or lose his vote.

Lieberman has been giving the progressives fits for years now. 

Rather, Bad Nelson and Holy Joe have simply “thought up a new excuse” to oppose real health care reform.

Until we stop pretending these two men are brokering in good faith, we will never get to the point in the discussion of how we get the best health care reform without some industry mole spiking the reform.

There is no such thing as disagreement with our friends in the progressive movement.  If you are not on board, you're obviously being dishonest. 

Lieberman, you may recall, cruelly crushed liberal delusions of electoral grandeur when he ran as an independent and trounced Ned Lamont in the general election, this coming right after liberals thought they had engineered his demise in the Connecticut Democratic primary.