We were curious whether Joe Lieberman would be attending this evening’s Senate Democratic caucus meeting. Our Evan McMorris-Santoro reports in that Lieberman just walked into the meeting, moving briskly past reporters and taking no questions.
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John Podesta, reacting to the Lieberman fiasco: “I suspect musty folders on reconciliation got dusted off this morning.”
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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I mentioned this in my post last night. But the key issue senate Democrats now have in dealing with Joe Lieberman isn’t his position on the the Medicare Buy-In. They need to confront the problem that Lieberman isn’t negotiating in good faith. No surprise that Republicans are giddy with what a problem he’s creating for Harry Reid & Co. But in my conversations with them, it’s as clear to them as it is to anyone else that he’s now basically mocking his Democratic colleagues by moving the goal posts every time a new agreement is struck. Read More
I doubt we’ll see anything like this happening in time for health care reform. But Sen. Harkin says it’s time to end the filibuster.