Joe Lieberman Slams Public Option

Politico reports that "Sen. Joe Lieberman’s threat to filibuster any health care bill with a public option could kill health reform this year — and embolden Democratic challengers who’d like to send him packing in 2012. But Lieberman doesn’t seem worried. 'I don’t think about that stuff,' Lieberman told POLITICO this week. 'I’m just — I’m being a legislator. After what I went through in 2006, there’s nothing much more that anybody [who] disagrees with me can try to do.' Lieberman left the Democratic Party in 2006 after liberal Ned Lamont beat him in Connecticut’s Democratic Senate primary. Lieberman defeated Lamont in the general election and returned to Washington as an independent, where he continues to caucus with Democrats — even though he accuses them of engaging in a bit of bait and switch when it comes to the public option. 'It’s classic politics of our time that if you look at the campaign last year, presidential, you can’t find a mention of public option,' Lieberman said. 'It was added after the election as a part of what we normally consider health insurance reform — insurance market reforms, cover people, cover people who are not covered.'" Tweet