Lieberman: I am gonna filibuster the public option

Posted by Bill Dupray on Nov 1 2009 Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

We had this in the Newsstand earlier, but I wanted to put a little meat on the bones. Remember when the press got all lathered over Olympia Snow (RINO-Maine) voting for the Baucus bill in the Finance Committee? Well, earlier that same day Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said he would not support the public option. But you likely did not read about Lieberman’s statement at the time, because that didn’t fit the MSM’s template to trumpet Snowe’s defection and create a sense of momentum for the Democrats.

As a test, I suggested that we would see all kinds of press the next day about Snowe and none for Lieberman, even though Lieberman’s position was a whole lot more significant than Snowe’s. After all the Dems didn’t need Snowe’s vote (especially in the Committee, as they outnumbered the Republicans 13-10), but they sure as hell needed Lieberman to stop a filibuster.

As I suspected, the New York Times the next day had 3 articles and two pics of Snowe and nothing about Lieberman on the front page of the politics section. You had to dig to find a mention of Lieberman on one of their blogs.

Howard Kurtz noted that Snowe got the full treatement, but nobody noticed Lieberman.

So today, with Snowe’s insignificant vote looking even moreso, we finally get some real, substantive news, and lo and behold, it is Joe Lieberman reminding us (and informing many Liberals for the first time) that the public option will pass . . . over his dead body.

Everybody is listening now, aren’t they?

With the non-existent tolerance of Liberals for opposing points of view, this will probably generate some hate mail (or worse) for Lieberman that would make a Marine blush.

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