Lonely Joe

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http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/node/32378 (for video)

From The Rachel Maddow Show Oct. 29, 2009. Rachel reports that Evan Bayh is now walking back from his comments made on CBS News and has released this statement:

Senator Bayh will support moving forward to a health care debate on the Senate floor, where he will work hard to address his concerns and craft affordable legislation that reduces the deficit and lowers health care costs for Indiana families and small businesses.

Maddow: In other words according to his office's statement today Sen. Bayh is now promising to allow the bill to come to the floor, but would he still like Lieberman filibuster the final vote with Republicans? Would he block a majority vote on the final bill and force his party to get sixty votes to pass health reform instead of fifty? Well, exclusively this afternoon Sen. Bayh told us this.

He told us that his position on health reform is not the same as Sen. Lieberman. Sen. Bayh told us it is extraordinarily unlikely that he would filibuster health reform. He said there is nothing in the bill he is aware of now that would cause him to vote to filibuster and he said that he currently "can't think of a set of circumstances under which he would vote against cloture.

What does this mean? It means that it's been a very big 24 hours for health reform. Sen. Bayh's statement as of 24 hours ago indicated that he had walked through the door that Joe Lieberman had opened--that he was willing to go even further than Joe Lieberman—not only willing to filibuster the final bill on health reform, but to filibuster any debate as well, both of those perceived threats from Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana have been walked way back. Which means that Joe Lieberman stands alone—Joe Lonely.

[Deep13]

1. CT needs reform, but has a pre-existing condition that excludes it. nt

[WI_DEM]

2. What can we do when Chris Dodd and Harry Reid both say they won't support any measures taken

against this weasel. Heck, Dodd even said he wouldn't rule out supporting Lieberman if he ran as an independent in 2012.

[opihimoimoi]

3. The People noes when a knife pokes their back...fuck Dodd, ...the PEEPS FEEL THE PAIN

Joe did not Gain...

His odds under Severe Strain...

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4. Evan Bayh seeks a crowd

It would be a shock to see Bayh actually stand up for much of anything by himself. So to see him not stand with Lieberman says more about his unwillingness to take a stand than his actual position on the bill. Despite his close ties to the health care industry. IMHO...