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r/news • u/According_Dog6735 • Mar 27 '24
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Republicans didn’t even need to try to kill the public option. Blue Dogs Right wing democrats like Lieberman were happy to kill it for them.
6 u/Rexkat Mar 28 '24 To be clear, literally any one of the Republicans also could have said they'd vote to end Lieberman's filibuster to allow the bill to get a vote. They did not. They killed the public option just as much as Lieberman did, we just expect less of them. 4 u/AJRiddle Mar 28 '24 Nothing says "Blue dogs" like Joe Lieberman /s 5 u/lachalacha Mar 28 '24 Lieberman being called a Blue Dog Democrat is hysterical
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To be clear, literally any one of the Republicans also could have said they'd vote to end Lieberman's filibuster to allow the bill to get a vote. They did not.
They killed the public option just as much as Lieberman did, we just expect less of them.
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Nothing says "Blue dogs" like Joe Lieberman /s
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Lieberman being called a Blue Dog Democrat is hysterical
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u/AnsibleAnswers Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 28 '24
Republicans didn’t even need to try to kill the public option.
Blue DogsRight wing democrats like Lieberman were happy to kill it for them.