I haven’t blogged in a while. It’s just been too depressing, with Healthcare Reform being picked apart until it no longer represents reform in any meaningful sense. Most disturbing about the whole circus has been the manipulative, self-serving performance of Joe Lieberman. His preening before the cameras, his convenient memory lapses (touting a Medicare buy-in in Sept., only to fight against it in December), his vicious vindictiveness, have all made it nearly impossible to watch this human train wreck in action, It certainly has made it tough to comment on his disgusting behavior.
It has been said by those who are close to him that, having lost the Democratic primary the last time out, he has been hell bent on revenge on progressives ever since.
It’s hard to deny it after witnessing his fawning over John McCain and the woefully under qualified and dangerously radical Sarah Palin. And he used to call himself a liberal Democrat. Virtually every position he has taken since 2006 has been far right of center, from war-mongering and torture-friendly, to denying the most basic of rights to the citizens he is supposed to represent. Having had it demonstrated to him convincingly that the Senatorial version of Healthcare Reform would actually reduce the deficit, he persisted in stating the opposite. Well, he seems to have learned well from his Republican masters.
Since Little Joe has been so instrumental in creating the anemic reform that is before us now, I would like to propose the following measure; that it be named the Joe Lieberman bill. That way, when the pathetic, meaningless, desiccated husk of a bill that is Healthcare Reform is passed, it will have an appropriate name attached to it, representing the one who, as much as anyone, is responsible for its existence.
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