Lieberman On Health Care: “I Don’t Think Anybody Thinks This Bill Will Pass”

Senator Joe Lieberman appeared today on Meet the Press to ruin the weekend of liberals everywhere. Or, you know, to discuss health care like the rest of the nation’s politicians and thinkers. “Are you a ‘no’ vote on this bill?” host David Gregory asked the Senator plainly.

Lieberman noted that he did vote, along with 59 others, to go ahead with the debate because he wants “to begin not only debating health care, but doing something about health care reform.” That said, “I don’t think anybody feels this bill, as Senator Reid put it down, though he made a lot of progress in blending bills together, I don’t think anybody thinks this bill will pass as it is,” said Lieberman.

He continued to reiterate his problems will the public option and support the possibility of a filibuster. “There will be others who feel exactly the way I do about the public option,” he promised. “We’ve got to make choices,” said Lieberman. “I don’t want to fix the problems in our hc system in a way that creates more of an economic crisis.”

“It won’t get one poor person insurance,” he said of the public option — “a government run insurance company.” And if “we create a government run insurance company, it’s gonna run a deficit.” You can see the rest of the Senators comments and a response by Senate assistant majority leader Dick Durbin in the video below:

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