re: #96 simoom

I couldn’t find it anywhere online, but I did happen to have the Newsweek in question laying around (Nov, 23rd 2009). Here are a couple excerpts from Alter’s column:

The latest trouble started after Lieberman said on Fox that “as a matter of conscience” he would filibuster any health-care bill with a public option. Flashback: when he ran for reelection in 2006, Lieberman bragged about his MediChoice plan. It would “allow anybody in our country to buy into a national health-insurance pool like the federal employees and members of congress have.” This sounds suspiciously like—ahem— the public option.

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Senate colleagues say Lieberman is consumed by his resentment toward liberals. Recently he saw Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards, in which Germans are scalped and incinerated by vengeful Jews. He publicly pronounce it “cathartic”. For Lieberman, defeating health-care reform would be the fulfillment of a revenge fantasy.