This time (not for the first time, and probably not for the last time), it is Joe who gets to play Lucy. And, again, we are not wanting for Charlie Browns.

Tags: Chris Matthews, Health care, Joe Lieberman, LieberCare

Mika Brzezinski I won’t name names, but I heard it from several people in the Administration: Howard Dean, very not pleased, with Dr. Dean speaking out about health care reform and this plan.

Savannah Guthrie: Yeah, very irritated. Yes, isn’t it fascinating they don’t seem to be too angry at Lieberman, they’re reserving their fervor for Howard Dean, but actually, one senior official who I talked to this morning paid the highest insult which was to call him irrelevant to the entire health care debate.

Tags: Health care, Howard Dean, Joe Lieberman, Mika Brzezinski, Savannah Guthrie, White House Christmas party

Sam Stein reports White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs suggested that the President has been as insistent that Joe Lieberman make concessions for the team as he’s been with liberals. Huh.

Tags: Barack Obama, Health care, Joe Lieberman, Robert Gibbs

Lieberman, as the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein put it, “seems primarily motivated by torturing liberals.”

Tags: Health care, Jacob Hacker, Joe Lieberman, liberals, LieberCare

The Village comes forth to defend their Lieberman, a true Village hero.

Joe Lieberman – putting the “dick” in “vindictive”.

This morning, the Politico made news by reporting that someone at the White House had ordered Harry Reid to cut a deal with Joe Lieberman on health care. The White House denied the report. But since, then, two more reoprters have confirmed Politico’s account.

Tags: Dan Pfeiffer, Harry Reid, Health care, Joe Lieberman, Jonathan Cohn, Politico, Rahm Emanuel, Ryan Grim, White House

CNN’s situation room just mentioned it, and Joe himself doesn’t seem to be happy about the heat. Poor thing. If you’d like to see more attention paid to fact that Komen is using money raised by those who are “racing for the cure” to give to Hadassah Lieberman, please consider donating to the campaign.

Tags: CNN, Fox News, Hadassah Lieberman, Health care, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Susan G. Komen, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post

There’s now video of Joe Lieberman supporting the Medicare buy-in concept – not during his 2000 or 2004 national campaigns, but in a discussion with the Connecticut Post just three months ago, in September 2009.

Tags: Health care, Joe Lieberman, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare buy in, public option, video

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that health insurance stocks are up dramatically today after Joe Lieberman’s threat to filibuster health care reform. Lieberman has a new-found strong opposition to the Medicare buy-in proposal–a massive flip-flop from his earlier support.

Tags: Health care, Joe Lieberman, stock market, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal