Excerpt: "The weekend before the Dec. 8, 2009 session, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) held Senate sessions on Saturday and Sunday, seeking a deal... The central issue: Would the bill call for the government to create a public health insurance plan, the position supported by President Barack Obama? To counter Republican opposition, Democrats needed votes from Messrs. Lieberman and Nelson, who said they had major concerns with a robust government-insurance plan. As negotiations neared a resolution, JNK Securities and its hedge-fund clients met a half-dozen lawmakers in the U.S. Capitol. Among those who spoke to the hedge funds were Mr. Lieberman and Mr. Carper on Dec. 8, according to their offices."
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), left, accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, 01/26/11. (photo: Charles Dharapak/AP)
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Government public health insurance plan would create first step (competition to GREEDY insurance companies) for public care.
The Lieberman and friends pushed medical/dental far away from 99% of Americans - for higher profit of 1% like Lieberman. The protest must target these criminals.
It is our responsibility to continue to be involved, continue to state our outrage and dissatisfaction with aspects of the process. It is our responsibility however to continue to be involved.
I for one despise Obama for his willingness to concede, his legitimation of the GOP and the Tea Party by negotiating with them. Even so, I will vote for him over a GOP candidate because he is the lesser of two evils. I will probably be involved in his campaign as well, although I will not like it.
The OWS folks are smart and consistent in their resolute commitment to consensus. As frustrating as it may be to the media, and even to some of us who'd like to see a leader emerge, OWS is winning support and legitimacy precisely because they are agreed on only general points: the 1% are to not doing their fair share, the 99% need a break, and both parties are to blame for the current state of affairs.
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If President Obama wished to run in 2016, I would wish him well, hoping he had learned what is required to truly represent all of the citizens of this nation, not just the wealthy 2%.
AIPAC Joe Lieberman cost US citizens billions and all the wars in the past decade, present, and future.
I wish one would just run on a platform that says "Hey, screw all of you, I'm running to make money. It's that simple. Don't you dumbos get it?" Imagine: an honest politician!
"He's ahead in Iowa", you say? So what? In 1988, Pat Robertson outpolled George H. W. Bush in the Iowa caucuses, but we didn't, thank God, end up with the Rev. President Pat.
Why anyone should care who's leading in one of the smallest, whitest, most rural states in the Union (rivaled only by New Hampshire) is beyond me.
Let them know, they have phone numbers
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