"Congratulations, Senate Dems!!!"

Steve Singiser writes in Daily Kos about the disappointment many of us are feeling about the apparent willingness of Senate Dems, "led" by Harry "Wispy" Reid, to capitulate to President Lieberliar on health care reform. A once- in- a- generation opportunity to truly reform the insurance industry is fast slipping away; House Dems (Rep. Steny Hoyer, to be precise) are already making noise about following the Senate's lead in stripping out the public option from its bill.

Cries of "We won! We won!" should be expected soon from the insurance lobby.

The Betrayer

There are numerous reasons to detest Sen. Joe Lieberliar (Party of One-CT): his help to the Bushit Assministration in pushing us to war in Iraq and his smug refusal to admit he was wrong; his frequent placement of Israel's interests above his country's; his support of the McSame/Winky ticket knowing full well that Winky was absurdly unqualified and McSame would continue Dumbya's policies; and his lack of humility and gratitude for the President, who supported Lieberliar's retention as Chair of the Homeland Security Committee.

Now, Lieberliar, despite statements a few weeks ago that he would support Medicare expansion to younger citizens, is now saying he won't vote for it or a public option in the Senate bill. He's also saying that he'll vote to block the bill from coming to the Senate floor for a vote. He's an angry, petty, vindictive buffoon who wants the Democrats to pay for his humiliations in the 2004 Presidential primaries, and the 2006 Senate race in Connecticut. He's doing this knowing that blocking health insurance reform will result in thousands of deaths each year, as people without coverage will wait to visit a hospital emergency room, will wait until it's too late.

Lieberliar's Unhealthy Move

Sen. Joe Lieberliar (Aetna-CT) announced yesterday that he would side with his Rethug partners in voting against a public option in the Senate health insurance reform bill. In a typical profile in courage, Lieberliar waited until the Democratic leadership announced that an opt-out public option would be in the Senate version of the bill before peeing in the Democrats' punchbowl. In so doing, he's on record as favoring no change in the status quo. . .big surprise.

Now we see how Lieberliar rewarded President Obama and the Democrats in the Senate after they forgave him for aggressively campaigning against the President in 2008, and allowed him to be the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Oversight Committee (which he's used recently to pimp the Fux News inspired Obama "czar" phony controversy). At the first strategic opportunity, the Senate Dems need to kick him out of their caucus and strip him of his committee leadership. Let the Rethugs claim him; he was never our 60th vote anyway.

UPDATE: driftglass has a recap of Lieberliar's betrayals here.

UPDATE 2: Paul Begala points out that Lieberliar opposed President Clinton's health care reform initiative in the '90s -- even when it didn't have a public option.