Joseph Lieberman, senator and vice-presidential nominee, dies at 82
Joseph Lieberman, senator and vice-presidential nominee, dies at 82
As Al Gore’s Democratic running mate in 2000, he was the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party.
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This guy almost singlehandedly eliminated the public option for healthcare in this country.
For that he can get fucked.
No, HE DID. The dems needed his vote to pass the ACA, and he made them get rid of the single payer option.
He had help. Ben Nelson deserves as much blame as the Democratic Party's vp nominee.
Dems are masters of "just needed this one 'centrist' vote" between their rank to be sure nothing progressive pass.
If you have no margin of error then that's the way it is. Every vote can be a veto.
What's really interesting is how the bar was 60 votes when this was happening but it's now 50 votes due to massive watering down of veto power in the Senate.
Yeah something the article bot (or perhaps the article irself, idk) failed to include.
Obits are usually written years before someone dies. What is included and not included is on purpose. Obit writer is a full time job for big papers. A good obit writer has a massive trove of them written about living folks. Its not (currently) a bot thing.