Posted on 01/15/2010 2:48:31 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian
Harry Reid put out a polite 34-word statement about Joe Lieberman on Thursday in the hopes of quelling the controversy over a report that Reid had accused Lieberman of double-crossing him on health care.
But Lieberman had other ideas.
Forty minutes after Reid’s e-mail hit reporters’ inboxes, Lieberman blasted out a message of his own. While Reid had said only that he enjoyed an “open and honest” relationship with Lieberman, the Connecticut independent went further — claiming that Reid had denied a New York Times account of a private conversation in which Reid allegedly accused Lieberman of betrayal.
But Reid’s staff has neither confirmed nor denied the Times’s account, despite requests for comment by POLITICO.
And so instead of closing the book on the episode, the senators’ dueling declarations served only to keep it alive another day — and to underscore the fact that Reid and Lieberman, who have one of the more unusual symbiotic relationships in a chamber defined by odd couples, can’t quite get on the same page.
On Wednesday, just as the uproar over Reid’s racially charged remarks about then-candidate Barack Obama was flagging, The New York Times Magazine posted a preview of Sunday’s profile on Reid that quoted the Nevada Democrat as saying Lieberman “double-crossed” him by suggesting he’d support a Reid-brokered compromise that he later opposed.
The story cited unnamed associates of the majority leader who said Reid was so enraged he briefly considered scuttling the whole bill before consenting to Lieberman’s demand.
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Let’s see... who to believe here? Joe Lieberman, who seems to be a sincere guy even though he’s a typical soft-headed liberal dimwit, or “Dingy” Harry Reid, who is... well... there are so many ways to say “lying crooked no-good scumbag,” aren’t there?
Harry Reid - YOU LIE There it has been said, and I will not apologize to this Mormon Moron
Two old biddies chirping while far more important matters go on around them. To hell with both of them.
If Lieberman has a spine, he will come out against this Dog’s Breakfast of a bill. Harry Reid has completely scuttled the Senate rules and any semblance of bipartisan debate, things which Joe Lieberman has claimed in the past to value highly, and all in service to a bill that every person in America knows is deeply flawed.
Joe Lieberman can be a hero of the American People if he makes a principled stand here. If he chooses to knuckle under, it tells us everything we need to know about him, and we need never listen to his “principled” positions on anything, again.
The knucklehead ALWAYS buckles.......ALWAYS!!
I am convinced the fight between the House and Senate on getting a compromise health care bill that can pass both houses will be a spectacle in itself! There are just too many egos involved for it to shake in any other fashion.
Let me guess - you took that description of Reid directly out of Reid's own campaign literature...
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