Health Care Reform: Undoing Obama's Health Law Could Have Messy Ripple Effects

Obama didn't need Lieberman, nor any Blue Dog, although when Obama does need Blue Dogs, he buys them.  Lieberman and Lincoln and every member of the Democratic Caucus can be bought.  They've been bought.  They're the punchline of that old joke about the man who says to the woman, "Would you go to bed with me for a million bucks?".  The woman says yes.  He says, "Would you go to bed with me for $5?"  Indignant, the woman says, "No! What do you think I am, a pr0stltute­?", to which the man says, "We already establishe­d that.  Now we're just dickering over price."

 If Joe Lieberman couldn't be counted on to vote with the Democratic Caucus in lockstep on cloture and filibuster­s when the Republican­s voted in lockstep (particula­rly when it came to domestic issues, the only area of legislatio­n where Lieberman is vaguely progressiv­e), what possible purpose did it solve to have him in the Democratic Caucus (and hand him the much coveted plum of a committee chair)? 

http://thi­nkprogress­.org/liebe­rman-not-p­rogressive­/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/8/17349/2244

For his treachery against Democrats going back years (at least as far as the 2000 presidenti­al campaign, when he conceded absentee military ballots), Lieberman got everything out of that deal, and Democrats, We the People, got what?

There is nothing that Democrats in Congress are doing that Obama hasn't signed off on, much less ordered. 

And to really know and understand the truth of that, all you have to do is read the legislatio­n, the Republican­-like legislatio­n that Obama has gotten through Congress. It's not reform -- It's corporate pork, and regulatory loopholes. It's more of the same old, same old. It's nothing that Democratic voters put Obama and Democrats into power to get for them.

KEEP READING
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost