Lieberman: I Finally Watched the Interview I Gave Three Months Ago
Speaking to reporters at the Capitol moments ago, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) seemed surprised by his own endorsement three months ago of a Medicare buy-in
Jul 31, 202037.8K Shares1.7M Views
Speaking to reporters at the Capitol moments ago, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) seemed surprised by his own endorsementthree months ago of a Medicare buy-in proposal he now opposes— saying that he finally saw the video “last night,” as if it were someone else who granted the now-infamous interview to The Connecticut Post in September.
Stuck in a corner, he offered two explanations. (1) He first said that it appeared like his September comments referred back to his endorsement of the Medicare buy-in 2000, when he was running as the vice-presidential candidate on the Al Gore ticket.
“I finally got to see that on TV last night,” Lieberman said, “and it looked to me like I was referring back to things I had supported in the past to make that point that, though I was against the public option, I was not against health care reform.”
(Nevermind that the Post interview was conducted clearly in the context of the current health-care debate.)
And (2) he argued that the comments were made before the Senate Finance Committee had introduced its reform bill, which grants generous insurance subsidies to folks aged 55 to 64. (Nevermind that the Senate HELP bill, which passed earlier in the summer, containedsimilar subsidies and everyone knew that the Finance bill would follow suit.)
He didn’t seem to mind that the explanations were contradictory.
This post was updated at 12:50 p.m.*
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