This and the fact that Joe receives huge campaign contributions from the health insurance companies might have more to do with his position on the public option than anything else. He also refuses to talk about any of this when asked. He is one of the most dishonest politicians out there right now. He tells us he is a "Independent" but he acts like a Repub. Mainly because he thinks he cannot be elected as a Repub in his home state. He should have enough political guts to just tell it like it is, he is a Repub.

You must have missed him on CBS this last Sunday. He was directly confronted with the question of conflict of interest; he reviewed the litany of anti-insurance industry legislation he has supported in the past and supports presently.

Other than that, he basically made two points: (1) there are a LOT of parts of the healthcare bill that receive huge bipartisan support, but Democrats are not interested in reaching agreement on them without a government option. Keep in mind that the government option was never raised by Obama during his campaign. (2) Given its track record, government cannot and should not take on another massive, expensive healthcare program.

You can question Lieberman's motives all you want, but you eventually have to face the substance of his argument.

Oh, somewhere along the line a few ordinary citizens got the idea that this health care/health insurance reform effort was supposed to be about good public policy and the overall benefit of the people. When in fact Lieberman, Baucus, and the entire Republican Party know better: it's all about giving money to drug and insurance companies, which apparently aren't rich enough.

As soon as you get over this notion that the proposed legislation is supposed to help people, and come to understand that it's just a giant corporate welfare bill for insurance companies, the happier you'll be.