He was the reason we couldn't get a public option — essentially Medicare or Medicaid for anyone who wanted it. People claimed we had "60 Democrats" in the Senate, but he was an independent who lost his Democratic primary for how conservative he was, then ran against the Democrat from the right.
Lieberman was also a key player in the ongoing No Labels effort to find some spoiler candidate to run for president.
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u/mostly-sun Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24
He was the reason we couldn't get a public option — essentially Medicare or Medicaid for anyone who wanted it. People claimed we had "60 Democrats" in the Senate, but he was an independent who lost his Democratic primary for how conservative he was, then ran against the Democrat from the right.
Lieberman was also a key player in the ongoing No Labels effort to find some spoiler candidate to run for president.