Joe Lieberman, not being satisfied with having done his best to make John McCain President, has now apparently decided to do his best to assure that President Obama's administration is "broken," in the words of one of his good Republican friends.
"I'm afraid we've got to think about putting a lot of that off until the economy's out of recession," said Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman. "There's no reason we have to do it all now, but we do have to get started. And I think the place to start is cost health delivery reform and insurance market reforms."
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"I think it's a real mistake to try to jam through the total health insurance reform, health care reform plan that the public is either opposed to or of very, very passionate mixed minds about," Lieberman said.
Lieberman and Republican Richard Lugar shared an appearance on CNN's State of the Union in which Lugar opined that it was a mistake to bring up health care reform when we were in a recession, and that "For the moment, let's clear the deck and try it again next year or in subsequent times."
I've got a question for Senators Lugar and Lieberman:
Should FDR have decided that it was just too much to enact Social Security when we were in a Depression? Should LBJ have decided that it was just too much to push through civil rights legislation and Medicare when we were involved in a war in Vietnam? Should Andrew Johnson have decided that it was just too much to purchase Alaska when we were in the midst of paying off a huge Civil War debt and engaging in the process of Reconstruction?