Let’s see… one is from a state whose largest city is Omaha, the other is from a state whose largest city is Hartford. What do those two cities have in common?
Time after time, these scoundrels place the interests of key campaign donors over those of the voters. An endless stream of polls show strong support for the public option, so they claim that voters don’t understand what that means. Or they fabricate other excuses: The public option (or Medicare expansion) are really actually the fist step towards a single-payer system. People just want better insurance (ignoring the 35 million who lack it). They want to fix the economy first (ignoring health care’s absurd rate of inlfation). People don’t want government-controlled health care (ignoring the 100 million people already receiving Medicare, Medicade, the VA, state- and federally-employee insurance systems). They say anything – literaly anything – to obstruct passage of reasonable health care reform. Anything, that is, but the truth.
Lieberman and Nelson have declared their true allegiances: to the insurance industry. The people can wait. The economy can suffer. The deficit can grow. Profits of the insurance companies, million-dollar compensation for top executives, and the continuation of massive political donations to their campaign coffers are what remain important.
These men are the antithesis of democracy, decency, and integrity.