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Good comic strip on Lieberman - anonymouse1 - 04-03-2024
https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-02-this-modern-world/
Re: Good comic strip on Lieberman - hal - 04-03-2024
TT is the BEST!
Re: Good comic strip on Lieberman - pdq - 04-03-2024
Yeah- four years after the party picked him as the VP candidate, he did everything but kiss Bush’s ass.
Lieberman gets extra credit for that wonderful adventure in Iraq, for sure.
Re: Good comic strip on Lieberman - jonny - 04-04-2024
:patriot:
Re: Good comic strip on Lieberman - sekker - 04-04-2024
He was a complicated person for sure.
I cannot point all of the blame on critical limitations of Obamacare on a single person.
Re: Good comic strip on Lieberman - gabester - 04-04-2024
You know, I don't think I ever hear anything good about anything Lieberman ever did. I'm not saying he didn't do anything good, but
1) Arguably lost Gore the Presidency in 2000
2) TT comic assertion above that his action got public option and lowering eligibility age removed from health care plans
3) Was obsequious to the 43rd President, AKA Bush II, "W".
4) Seems otherwise forgettable, because I remember nothing else about him.
Re: Good comic strip on Lieberman - JoeH - 04-04-2024
gabester wrote:
You know, I don't think I ever hear anything good about anything Lieberman ever did. I'm not saying he didn't do anything good, but
1) Arguably lost Gore the Presidency in 2000
2) TT comic assertion above that his action got public option and lowering eligibility age removed from health care plans
3) Was obsequious to the 43rd President, AKA Bush II, "W".
4) Seems otherwise forgettable, because I remember nothing else about him.
2 - yep that is documented in the public record, TT is just conveying fact there. He personally was threatening to lead a filibuster if that remained in th legislation.
Joe Lieberman got voted in as a Senator from CT due to a coalition of supporters that included conservative Republicans. They thought the incumbent GOP Senator Lowell Weicker was too liberal, and this was back in 1988. Just a foreshadowing of his mixed up career as a Senator.
Re: Good comic strip on Lieberman - Acer - 04-04-2024
Seems like Gore could have done better.
Re: Good comic strip on Lieberman - Ted King - 04-04-2024
Acer wrote:
Seems like Gore could have done better.
John Kerry was on his shortlist of VP candidates.
Re: Good comic strip on Lieberman - vision63 - 04-04-2024
Ted King wrote:
[quote=Acer]
Seems like Gore could have done better.
John Kerry was on his shortlist of VP candidates.
So was Tom Harkin who was my choice. Kerry would have been a great choice. At the time, John Edwards was an attractive choice, though he was also from the South.
Gore chose to not run on his record. Probably the most successful and popular presidency in the modern era.