Thread: Lieberman: I'll block vote on Reid plan

Lieberman: I'll block vote on Reid plan
By: Manu Raju
October 27, 2009 01:38 PM EST

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.

Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance program — even if it includes a provision allowing states to opt out of the program, as Reid has said the Senate bill will.

"We're trying to do too much at once," Lieberman said. “To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt. I don’t think we need it now."

Asked about Lieberman’s threat to filibuster a final vote on the Reid plan, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said: "I haven't seen the report from Sen. Lieberman or why he's saying what he's saying. I think Democrats and Republicans alike will be held accountable by their constituents who want to see health care reform enacted this year.â€

God Bless you Sen. Joe Lieberman. You will go down in history as a patriot. This health care bill must not pass.

Lieberman said that he’d vote against a public option plan “even with an opt-out because it still creates a whole new government entitlement program for which taxpayers will be on the line."

Lieberman is so right on this one. Maybe now we have a chance of this bill failing. I hope and pray it will.

good for joe. nice to see a politician earn his $$$ . didnt he push for amnesty in 07' ? is my mind failing?