{"id":5175,"date":"2009-12-15T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T23:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2009-12-15T17:12:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T00:12:52","slug":"lieberman-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/12\/15\/lieberman-again-and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman, again and again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not being original here in echoing out Joseph Lieberman’s perdifidy.\u00c2\u00a0 (And if you want to know why I insist on using a mis-spelling and comical exaggeration of the word, look at the google search<\/a>.)\u00c2\u00a0 I mean to say not perfidy to the cause of Liberal or Progressive or Democratic Policy, but to consistency of principles of policy.<\/p>\n

The sentence that irks a bit is this one said on the Sunday Morning talk-haze.:<\/p>\n

“We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to stop adding to the bill. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to start subtracting some controversial things.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Followed by the call for bi-partisanship — and this next sentence is kind of non-sensical — \u00c2\u00a0I think the only way to get this done before Christmas is to bring in some Republicans who are open-minded on this, like Olympia Snowe.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 — in large part because Olympia Snowe is the only\u00c2\u00a0name that\u00c2\u00a0one can possibly come up with here.<\/p>\n

The problem is\u00c2\u00a0the subtracted the “Public Option” (which, at the point it came to the Senate, was not worth defending anyways), and then added the “Medicare Buy-in”, with the reasonable guess that it could pass Joseph Lieberman’s muster.\u00c2\u00a0 What might lead a person to reasonably conclude it could?\u00c2\u00a0 Because of previous proposals from Joseph Lieberman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The video presents the puzzling case of media malfeasance, as shown in this round out of a tv appearance yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, answering the most widespread criticism of late–that he switched stances on the Medicare buy-in provision, which he supported during the 2000 presidential campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n

That… can not be the “most widespread criticism”.\u00c2\u00a0 Can it?\u00c2\u00a0 I am more concnerned from his switched psoition from 3 months ago — which, incidentally, he has since addressed in part by parsing the differences of the moment and the political feasibles of what can be stopped<\/a> — and in part by pointing out that Anthony Weiner and other liberals liked the new<\/a> policy.<\/p>\n

The principles of the man blow me away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not being original here in echoing out Joseph Lieberman’s perdifidy.\u00c2\u00a0 (And if you want to know why I insist on using a mis-spelling and comical exaggeration of the word, look at the google search.)\u00c2\u00a0 I mean to say not perfidy to the cause of Liberal or Progressive or Democratic Policy, but to consistency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5177,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions\/5177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}