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We never had 60 votes in the senate. Lieberman is not a dem, and made a large deal about being the one senator who could tank health care.

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If Joe Lieberman couldn't be counted on to vote with the Democratic Caucus in lockstep on cloture & 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 (& hand him the much coveted plum of a committee chair)?



http://www­.nytimes.c­om/2008/11­/07/us/pol­itics/07co­ng.html?_r­=3&ref=pol­itics&oref­=slogin&or­ef=slogin



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?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost