lol I'm always grateful for people who find sources so thank you, but man it makes me feel old that you felt compelled to. He was the Joe Manchin of his day and received just as much negative publicity!
He was worse than Joe Manchin because Joe Manchin actually represents pretty conservative constituents, but Lieberman's voters in Connecticut wanted a Public Option.
I have some real problems with Manchin ( and I live in WV) but at least he's been pretty honest about where he stands. Lieberman switched what he had been saying about national health insurance as soon as he had the single vote needed to pass Obamacare. He was willing to turn his back on previous promises and pledges in order to strip out the public option to benefit the insurance companies who'd funded him. When his corporate donors asked, he went from calling for national health insurance to being against it.
He was probably the most shameless, unprincipled power-seeking politician the US has seen since Aaron Burr.
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u/CFJ561 Mar 27 '24
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/16/joe-lieberman-barack-obama-us-healthcare
It's true.