Once again 'Zion' Joe Lieberman displays his deeply held elitist conservatism by claiming that health care reform can be done later rather than sooner. He said the nation's fifty million uninsured or underinsured should wait until the recession is over for health insurance. That's OK for Joe, he's got his gold lined Senate insurance policy already. The rest of us can go fish. The six conservative Senators on the Finance Committee are accomplishing nothing except holding the rest of the nation hostage to their compensated desire to protect the health insurance industry from competition and regulation. The New York Times got it right in its editorial on this subject. For a country as rich as ours is, forcing a significant number of its citizens to go without health care insurance while raising the price of coverage for everyone else, is a moral disgrace. And so is Joe Lieberman for suggesting it be allowed to continue. If 44 does not use the budget reconciliation process that requires only 51 votes to get a bill pass this intentional obstruction, then he is morally no better than 'Zion' Joe. As FDR so sucinctly said in 1937, "We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals. We know now that it is bad economics"
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The Prima Dona of the Senate
Once again 'Zion' Joe Lieberman displays his deeply held elitist conservatism by claiming that health care reform can be done later rather than sooner. He said the nation's fifty million uninsured or underinsured should wait until the recession is over for health insurance. That's OK for Joe, he's got his gold lined Senate insurance policy already. The rest of us can go fish. The six conservative Senators on the Finance Committee are accomplishing nothing except holding the rest of the nation hostage to their compensated desire to protect the health insurance industry from competition and regulation. The New York Times got it right in its editorial on this subject. For a country as rich as ours is, forcing a significant number of its citizens to go without health care insurance while raising the price of coverage for everyone else, is a moral disgrace. And so is Joe Lieberman for suggesting it be allowed to continue. If 44 does not use the budget reconciliation process that requires only 51 votes to get a bill pass this intentional obstruction, then he is morally no better than 'Zion' Joe. As FDR so sucinctly said in 1937, "We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals. We know now that it is bad economics"
