Posts Tagged ‘Joe Lieberman’
» posted on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 at 7:03 pm by Damien Baldino
Joe Lieberman is in, but is Roland Burris out?
Now that it looks like the Senate health care bill is moving away from Medicare expansion, Senator Joe Lieberman says he can support the bill. This is good news for Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is trying to be everything to everyone in order to patch together 60 votes, but things might have just become a little more difficult.
Illinois Senator Roland Burris has indicated that he will not vote for a bill if it doesn’t achieve “the goals of a public option.” Notice that he doesn’t specifically insist on a public option, merely the goals that he believes a public option would achieve. Still, it makes you wonder how many votes might be lost in this attempt to appease Joe Lieberman, and there lies the problem. » read more
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» posted on Monday, December 14th, 2009 at 6:39 pm by Damien Baldino
The health care balancing act: Be afraid, be very afraid
It looks like Senate Democrats might be close to dropping an idea to expand Medicare for those between 55 and 64. It would be dropped in order to bring Senators like Joe Lieberman on board, but one has to wonder how progressive Democrats will react to this decision.
You would think that progressives would vehemently oppose any changes to Medicare expansion. The scary part will happen if progressives are fine with the decision to drop the expansion. If they go along with the idea, then read carefully: The bill will be guaranteed to contain even bigger costs and give-aways. » read more
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» posted on Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 12:41 pm by Damien Baldino
Investigate the Muslim extremist and law enforcement
Major Malik Nadal Hasan, who murdered 12 people and injured 30 at Fort Hood was allegedly known to U.S. intelligence officials. Now, the big questions are these: Why weren’t his views questioned and why was he promoted to major?
Hasan’s coworkers stated that it was rather apparent that he saw himself as a Muslim first, and an American second. Now, we find out that he was associated with a radical mosque leader who was associated with two 9/11 hijackers and had this to say: » read more
post a comment | filed under Crime · Politics · Terrorism | tags: al-Qaeda, Fort Hood, Joe Lieberman, Malik Nadal Hassain, Peter Hoekstra, Terrorism
