Showing posts with label sen. joe lieberman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sen. joe lieberman. Show all posts
Saturday, December 19, 2009
MoveOn.org: The Sen. Joe Lieberman sock puppet show
This pretty funny and amazingly accurate. It sounds exactly like Lieberman.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Morning Joe: Lieberman is a vindictive jerk
Apparently Joe Lieberman is still smarting over being defeated in the Democratic primary in Connecticut. He proposed expanding Medicare and Medicaid three months ago and then reversed himself. Harry Reid even consulted with him on the recent Medicare option.
The Democrats would be smart to change the Senate rules and use the nuclear option to remove the filibuster. The should then kick Lieberman out of the Democratic caucus, take his chairs away and marginalise him.
Enough is enough.
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
Huff Po: Democrats defeat GOP filibuster attempt
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled Senate on Saturday cleared away a Republican filibuster of a huge end-of-year spending bill that rewards most federal agencies with generous budget boosts.
The $1.1 trillion measure combines much of the year's unfinished budget work – only a $626 billion Pentagon spending measure would remain – into a 1,000-plus-page spending bill that would give the Education Department, the State Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and others increases far exceeding inflation.
The 60-34 vote met the minimum threshold to end the GOP filibuster. A final vote was set for Sunday afternoon to send the measure to President Barack Obama.
Democrats held the vote open for an hour to accommodate Independent
Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, an Orthodox Jew who walked more than
three miles to the Capitol to vote on the Sabbath after attending
services at his synagogue in the city's Georgetown neighbor Lieberman
wore a black wool overcoat and brilliant orange scarf – as well as a
wide grin – as he provided the crucial 60th vote.
The measure provides spending increases averaging about 10 percent to programs under immediate control of Congress, blending increases for veterans' programs, NASA and the FBI with a pay raise for federal workers and help for car dealers.
It bundles six of the 12 annual spending bills, capping a dysfunctional appropriations process for budget year that began Oct. 1, dysfunctional appropriations process in which House leaders blocked Republicans from debating key issues and Senate Republicans dragged out debates.
Just the $626 billion defense bill remain. That's being held back to serve as a vehicle to advance must-pass legislation such as a plan to allow the government's debt to swell by nearly $2 trillion. The government's total debt has nearly doubled in the past seven years and is expected to exceed the current ceiling of $12.1 trillion before Jan. 1.
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/12/senate-gop-denied-on-spen_n_389812.html
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Politics Daily: Religious card played on Lieberman
David Gibson, Columnist
Joseph Lieberman is an observant Jew, but the senator from Connecticut apparently didn't want to check out the candlelight prayer vigil in front of his Stamford home Sunday evening -- and who could blame him?
The crowd of 500 people had gathered outside of Lieberman's condo holding candles and singing "This Little Light of Mine" because they were incensed at Lieberman's threat the join a Republican filibuster against any health care bill that includes a public option. The protesters represented a cross-section of faiths, including Unitarians, African-American Baptists, Muslims, and Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy, who recently announced his candidacy for governor.
But the rabbis in attendance seemed to be the most outspoken, according to local news reports.
"You shall not stand idly by the blood of your neighbors," Rabbi Stephen Fuchs said quoting Scripture. "It is with a heavy heart that I proclaim to you, Senator Lieberman, that that is exactly what you seem to be doing at this time."
Ouch.
Rabbi Ron Fish of Congregation Beth El in Norwalk said he normally avoids political discussions but said Lieberman's stand against health care reform left him no choice.
"I feel passionately about the subject of health care," he explained. "I've avoided entering too closely into the conversation because I fear that when we clergy speak in political terms, we quite often do a disservice to politics and religion. But when Senator Lieberman spoke about his conscience impelling him to stop even a vote on this . . . crucial instance of hope, my conscience could not allow me to be silent."
"The moral imperative for our time is clear. Anyone whose guide in public policy is conscience, anyone who argues that faith and religious traditions should direct our actions, such a person must stand for universal health care in America," Fish said, reading from a letter signed by more than 70 other clergy. "It happens we are all also citizens of Connecticut. That fact leads us to ask you, Senator Lieberman, what is it that you stand for?"
Pow.
"We come today demanding there be justice. Let justice rain down like an unstoppable stream; health care for black, for white, health care for Latino, health care for all," prayed Rev. Scott Marks, of New Growth Praise Center in New Haven.
Zing.
Source: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/18/praying-for-lieberman-will-that-change-his-mind-on-health-care/
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Joseph Lieberman is an observant Jew, but the senator from Connecticut apparently didn't want to check out the candlelight prayer vigil in front of his Stamford home Sunday evening -- and who could blame him?
The crowd of 500 people had gathered outside of Lieberman's condo holding candles and singing "This Little Light of Mine" because they were incensed at Lieberman's threat the join a Republican filibuster against any health care bill that includes a public option. The protesters represented a cross-section of faiths, including Unitarians, African-American Baptists, Muslims, and Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy, who recently announced his candidacy for governor.
But the rabbis in attendance seemed to be the most outspoken, according to local news reports.
"You shall not stand idly by the blood of your neighbors," Rabbi Stephen Fuchs said quoting Scripture. "It is with a heavy heart that I proclaim to you, Senator Lieberman, that that is exactly what you seem to be doing at this time."
Ouch.
Rabbi Ron Fish of Congregation Beth El in Norwalk said he normally avoids political discussions but said Lieberman's stand against health care reform left him no choice.
"I feel passionately about the subject of health care," he explained. "I've avoided entering too closely into the conversation because I fear that when we clergy speak in political terms, we quite often do a disservice to politics and religion. But when Senator Lieberman spoke about his conscience impelling him to stop even a vote on this . . . crucial instance of hope, my conscience could not allow me to be silent."
"The moral imperative for our time is clear. Anyone whose guide in public policy is conscience, anyone who argues that faith and religious traditions should direct our actions, such a person must stand for universal health care in America," Fish said, reading from a letter signed by more than 70 other clergy. "It happens we are all also citizens of Connecticut. That fact leads us to ask you, Senator Lieberman, what is it that you stand for?"
Pow.
"We come today demanding there be justice. Let justice rain down like an unstoppable stream; health care for black, for white, health care for Latino, health care for all," prayed Rev. Scott Marks, of New Growth Praise Center in New Haven.
Zing.
Source: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/18/praying-for-lieberman-will-that-change-his-mind-on-health-care/
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