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| Lickin' Ass And Goin' Insane... |
 Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:00 am |
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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP
filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform
bill.
Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a
fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health care bill that
includes a government-run insurance program — even if it includes a
provision allowing states to opt out of the program, as Reid’s has
said the Senate bill will.
"We're trying to do too much at once," Lieberman said. “To put this
government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just
asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for
the national debt. I don’t think we need it now."
Lieberman added that he’d vote against a public option plan “even with
an opt-out because it still creates a whole new government entitlement
program for which taxpayers will be on the line."
His comments confirmed that Reid is short of the 60 votes needed to
advance the bill out of the Senate, even after Reid included the opt-
out provision. Several other moderate Democrats expressed skepticism
at the proposal as well, but most of the wavering Democratic senators
did not go as far as Lieberman Tuesday, saying they were waiting to
see the details.
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