Joe Lieberman: so amoral, he can kill thousands just to settle a score?
Writing about the Senate’s stalled health care “reform” bill, Ezra Klein slanders Joe Lieberman:
Lieberman seems primarily motivated by torturing liberals. That is to say, he seems willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score.
He’s relying on a liberal think tank’s “study” of the relationship between being uninsured and mortality. Oddly, the “study” didn’t compare the effects on mortality of living in the U.S. today vs. living in Britain.
Or…maybe it’s not so odd.
Charles Lane, Klein’s Washington Post colleague, has Klein’s number:
This is disgusting, and pretty illogical, too.
…last time I checked, Joe Lieberman does not oppose insuring everyone. Indeed, he is on record favoring “legislation that expands access to the millions who do not have coverage, improves quality and lowers costs while not impeding our economic recovery or increasing the debt.” He simply opposes the public option, as well as Harry Reid’s last-minute improvisation on Medicare.
Not too long ago, Lieberman agreed that these lives were far too important to be sacrificed due to political pique. “Every campaign, as President Clinton reminded us, is about the future,” Lieberman said in a 2006 debate against Ned Lamont. “And what I’m saying to the people of Connecticut, I can do more for you and your families to get something done to make health care affordable, to get universal health insurance.”
If this is doing more, I’d hate to see doing less.
Klein doesn’t even address his original slander: “…he (Lieberman) seems willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people…”
In fact, if anything, he repeats it: “Not too long ago, Lieberman agreed that these lives were far too important to be sacrificed due to political pique.”
You know, Ezra, admitting that your rhetoric got away from you…that’s a perfectly honorable thing to do. You should try it.
For the rest, Klein knows that the Senate bill will make health insurance more expensive, not less. Health care will become more expensive, not less. That will lead to cuts, and artificial, bureaucracy-run rationing, which will mean people doing without.
Doing less, at this point, means doing more. If that’s what Lieberman’s doing, then more power to him.
Via Memeorandum.
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