Flip-Flop Of Shameless Proportions

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As I noted in my earlier post, it’s blindingly clear that Joe Lieberman is just pulling head-fakes now not holding the line on any policy issue he actually believes in. But it turns out that not only did Lieberman run in 2000 on the Medicare Buy-In he now says he’ll filibuster. He supported it just three months ago.

Shamelessness is the most devalued word in politics. But I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a better example of it.

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