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 \u2014 even if it includes a provision allowing states to opt out of the program, as Reid\u2019s has said the Senate bill will. <\/font><\/p>\n "We’re trying to do too much at once," Lieberman said. \u201cTo 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\u2019t think we need it now." <\/font><\/p>\n Lieberman added that he\u2019d vote against a public option plan \u201ceven with an opt-out because it still creates a whole new government entitlement program for which taxpayers will be on the line."\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Politico<\/a>><\/p>\n I will forego making any personal statements about this \u2026, as I cannot do so in language fit for prostitutes and sailors, let alone families. LIEberman is Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and is a member of the Armed Services and Small Business Committees. If this GOP pig in sheep\u2019s clothing follows through on his threat, or if he doesn\u2019t, kick him out of the caucus and strip him of his seniority and committee assignments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was worried about this. Traitor Joe LIEberman wants to block even the limited public option, and will join the Health Insurance Industry and their paid lackeys, the Republican party in a filibuster against it. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he\u2019d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid\u2019s health care […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"lieberbush\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/BreakingUpdateonPublicOptionTraitorJoeSt_9C29\/lieberbush.jpg\" "\\"lieberbush\\"")
<\/a> Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he\u2019d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid\u2019s health care reform bill. <\/font><\/p>\n