The depth of Lieberman's hypocrisy on cloture: the Alito cloture vote

[ProSense]

FLASHBACK: Lieberman Voted Yes On Cloture For Legislation He Ultimately Opposed

As Rachel Maddow pointed out last night, “A member of the majority has never before crossed party lines to filibuster with the minority. And that is exactly what Joe Lieberman is threatening to do to kill health care reform.” In fact, according to research dug up by Maddow and her staff, Lieberman has voted for cloture and allowed up-or-down floor votes on a number of major bills he opposed in the past:

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One of the most glaring examples of Lieberman’s past flexibility on filibusters was during the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Lieberman, who was part of the notorious “Gang of 14” that ended the chances of a filibuster of Alito’s nomination, explained his rationale to Fox News host Sean Hannity: “I did vote against the filibuster cause I thought that, you know, it was time to move on.”

Indeed, the same argument can now be made for health care.

[WI_DEM]

1. Lieberman is a wiesel who will do everything to screw dems but dems are spineless

and won't throw his ass out of the caucus if he does vote with the GOP and filibuster.

[IndianaGreen]

4. He is still Chair of Homeland Security Committee, and he killed Katrina investigation

despite having promised months earlier to pursue such an investigation.

[Roland99]

2. Joe's just doing his version of a Kim Jong-Il

"Hey! Everyone look at me!!!"


Fucking attention whore.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Stop posting this stuff about Lieberman!

Don't you realize that Holy Joe has several stealth supporters in DU, and that your posting of this stuff will make them upset?

Have you no decency?

:sarcasm:

[GodlessBiker]

5. His insurance industry bosses in Hartford are pulling the strings on this one.