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Lieberman's Name Ain't Benedict

We need more pols who cross party lines, says maverick junior

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 2, 2009 1:54 PM CST

(Newser) – Joe Lieberman’s taking a lot of heat for saying he’ll join a GOP filibuster of the health care bill, but Meghan McCain thinks it’s the kind of courageous stand we need more of in politics. “It’s no secret I have an aversion to partisan politics and extremism—on both sides of the aisle,” she writes for the Daily Beast, citing moderate stalwarts Lieberman and Lindsey Graham as her favorite senators.

Recently there’s been worry over “moderate bloodletting” in the GOP, but Lieberman’s treatment proves liberals can let blood with the best of them. “God forbid any politician from either side dares reach across party lines and refuses to placate the partisan faithful.” It’s easy to preach to the converted. “If I want to hear conservative dogma, I will turn on Fox. But where do people go to listen to the Joe Liebermans of the world?”

In this photo provided by CBS, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., speaks after appearing on CBS's Face the Nation in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009.
In this photo provided by CBS, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., speaks after appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009.   (AP Photo/CBS Face the Nation, Karin Cooper)
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Fondue
Nov 3, 2009 12:11 PM CST
Also, back to spouses forcing the other to vote a certain way. I was thinking, how often would that happen? And, would there be legislation making it a felony?
Fondue
Nov 3, 2009 12:09 PM CST
@ Roger, have seen this about the House of Representatives? http://www.thirty-thousand.org/
lindamae
Nov 3, 2009 6:39 AM CST
Pharma supported both parties 50% to 50 % with their contributions in the presidential elections. Also, how many of your family and friends work in either the medical or insurance fields in CT? Wouldn't you expect their Senator to try to save their jobs? You've heard the hue and cry about moving jobs out of Ct with Pratt? You do know that if public option goes, then the government will be the broker who decided which policy you must take and how much you must pay for it and the IRS will oversee that you do? If you don't know that, then please take time to review the Baucus and Pelosi bills. At least read the table of contents in each so you can see what will happen. Also - both bills claim that there still will be those who are uninsured. So, we lose our right to decide what plan we want for nothing.

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