Nance at Mature Landscaping didn’t help my disposition any with her efforts to flesh out (pun intended) my post regarding rewarding health care opponents with Hooters discounts. The idea that the chain would provide the serving staff with free tanning bed time but not with health care insurance pretty much says it all. The sordid details are here.
So I sought refuge from this sorry saga by checking the weather. Seems that Washington D.C. is prepping for the storm of the decade, and any Senate Democrat worth his or her salt is hunkering down with a cot in the office and Chinese takeout on speed dial, because they’re expected to need each and every one of their sixty votes in the wee hours of Saturday for a crucial vote. Got it? All hands on board!……Joe? Joe?
Where’s Joe Lieberman?
Apparently, he’s gone home to Connecticut for the weekend.
What a ’stand up and be counted’ ליגנער…
And by the way, in case you missed it: the New York Times points out:
Campaign finance advocates have attacked Mr. Lieberman as “an insurance industry puppet,” suggesting that he wants to protect private health insurers from competition because he has received more than $1 million insurance company campaign contributions since 1998.
During his 2006 re-election campaign, Mr. Lieberman ranked second in the Senate in insurance industry contributions. Connecticut is a hub of the insurance business, with about 22,000 jobs specifically in health insurance, according to an industry trade group.
I got your puppet right here, Joe….
Posted on December 18th, 2009 by jack-of-all-thumbs
Filed under: Rants and Musings
Love the use of Yiddish!
It was amusing to see Lieberman’s stunned expression when Senator Franken told him that no, his time was up, and he, Al Franken, objected to a continuance. I have to wonder what Lieberman expected when he turned into a media whore and did anything he could to keep getting in front of those cameras. Did he think there would be no consequences? Did he think that the Democrats would just shrug and say, “Oh, that’s our Joe!” He’s political toast.
I’ll get my exercise today hopping from media source to media source, looking for news on the bill. Great post!
Love the sock puppet video
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