I guess we were wrong, the White House has been just as hard on Lieberman as it has been on progressives like Sherrod Brown and Tom Harkin:
Asked if Obama is as demanding of Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn), whose opposition to a public option and Medicare buy-in provision led to their removal, as he has been of progressives like Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), both staunch supporters of a public plan, (White House Press Secretary Robert) Gibbs affirmatively replied: "Yes."
"The president was clear with members of the democratic caucus, including independents who caucus with the Democrats," he said.
If Gibb's claim is that President Obama has ben hard on independents who caucus with the Democrats in the Senate to compromise, he must mean Bernie Sanders, the other independent, because lately, it's been hard to see Holy Joe doing anything but hogging cameras, holding court and smiling away and how he took the Democratic caucus in the senate for a ride.
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