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I don't give politicians much credit these days, though I have to give them props for the strength of their collective stomachs. I don't think I could take the rollercoaster that is is the legislative process.
Perhaps it's my adult ADD or my need for instant gratification (or at least near future gratification). Patience was never a virtue of mine.
The long, bumpy, twisty road to health care reform has been enough to make me sick. Just when we think we're on the home stretch, another obstacle pops up. This time, it wears the scary Halloween mask of Joe Lieberman. Truly terrifying.
Maura Keaney, in an editorial for The Guardian (UK) offered this bit of brilliance:
Joe Lieberman has become the Balloon Boy dad of the Senate Democratic caucus, a fame-whore so addicted to media attention that he hatches ever-more-desperate and risky schemes that sell out his "family" to earn press attention.
Progressives can only hope that, like Richard Heene, Lieberman will finally be exposed as a fame-seeking fraudster after his latest stunt, Tuesday's threat to filibuster any bill for health care reform that includes a public option.
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As a Canadian, I'm shocked at the extent of the cruel, greedy power the health insurance companies hold over Americans. Every other industrialized nation has some kind of universal health care coverage. It's uncivilized that some 18,000 Americans each year die due to lack of health care, thousands become bankrupt and many become homeless. It's also shocking the part that Senator Lieberman, as a Democrat, is playing to block democratic health care reform. Senator Lieberman is a loose cannon who has more than once blown the Democratic Party out of the water. How did this man ever get appointed as Al Gore's running mate in 2000 when his loyalties to Big Pharma and other major corporations, his dedication to supporting Israel to the exclusion of any sympathy for the Palestinian cause, were well known at the time?
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