A Concerned Joe Lieberman Comes Riding To The Rescue Of His Pals The Medical Industry CEOs And Lobbyists

Holy Joe: concerned enough about the Obama presidency to vote with the GOP on health care reform

When Obama interceded on behalf of his former Senate mentor, Joe Lieberman, so that Lieberman could still get the committee and caucus privileges of a Democrat, even though he had been rejected by his own state's Democratic voters, I thought it was a terrible mistake. At the time, though, I wrote it off to a "deal" that Lieberman would support him on health care. Unless Obama is trying to sabotage health care-- someplace I don't want to go yet-- I was wrong. Instead Lieberman is supporting the most extreme Republican Party/Insurance Industry position-- this can wait until we get Obama out of office in 2012.

Forget for a moment that Hadassah Lieberman, the wife, was a Medical-Industrial Complex lobbyist (for a sleazy firm called APCO which represents the worst of the worst when it comes to Big Pharma) and then went to work for Hill & Knowlton as a high paid senior counselor regarding health care and pharmaceuticals. Instead, just focus on Holy Joe's unbelievable record of bribe taking from this sector. Only 8 sitting senators have been favored with over a million dollars from the Insurance Industry and Lieberman, of course, was one of them. But he gets far more from the Medical-Industrial Complex-- $2,395,369, again, one of the top 10 recipients of thinly disguised bribes from that sector.

So should it have disguised anyone on Villager John King's CNN show yesterday when Lieberman stabbed American working families in the back on health care. (Remember, "he's with us on everything but the wars?") Lieberman has always been the sleaziest and most unethical hypocrites in the Senate and yesterday he showed such overwhelming concern for the ordinary Americans he so loathes:

Morally, every one of us would like to cover every American with health insurance but that’s where you spend most of the trillion dollars plus, or a little less that is estimated, the estimate said this health care plan will cost. And I’m afraid we’ve got to think about putting a lot of that off until the economy is out of recession. There’s no reason we have to do it all now."

Such concern for working families-- and he was all full of concern today. In fact he's so concerned about the Obama presidency that he's threatening to vote with the Republicans to scuttle health care to save the president from himself!

John King is as unworthy of trust as anyone who puts on such a show of trustworthiness. If he wanted to be trustworthy, he would identify his speakers not only with their party and state and committee, but also with the amount of money they have taken from the special interest whose case they are fighting at the moment.