An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Reid’s Nose Tweek
Lieberman Rules Out Voting for Health Bill
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 party.
But on Sunday, Mr. Lieberman told the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, to scrap the idea of expanding Medicare and to abandon the idea of a new government insurance plan, known as a public option.
While this is a good move, to a degree, it would be even better if the good Senator refused to vote for this type of bill in ANY form.
On a separate issue, Mr. Reid tried over the weekend to concoct a compromise on abortion that would induce Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, to vote for the bill. Mr. Nelson opposes abortion. Any provision that satisfies him risks alienating supporters of abortion rights.
Isn’t it interesting that even though they’ve been told, and even admitted nothing they are doing when it comes to health care is Constitutional, they just roll right along, oblivious. That tax payer funds should even be considered to pay for the slaughter of innocent children, in this farce of ‘health care reform’, is even more offensive.
All we can do is pray that they will be more interested in saving their jobs than they are in socializing our country. The polls are turning ugly and I think they are begining to notice.
I’m not real sure they are paying attention to polls. They only approve when the polls run in their favor. If not, they are oblivious. Reid and Pelosi don’t mind sacrificing other congress critters jobs, but I wonder how they’d feel if they knew for a fact, they wouldn’t be returning as well?
And since they didn’t really notice the HUGE Tea Parties….