You tell ‘em, Joe: Pushing through health care “bad”

No matter how arrogant the Democrats get, Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent after his party decided he wasn’t extreme-enough to the left and tried to oust him for an even wackier liberal, kept his former party honest this weekend, calling an effort to push through health care reform a mistake.

If the so-called “public option” is forced through, Lieberman said, “that the public is either opposed to, or of very, very passionate mixed minds about” would be bad “for the system. Frankly, it won’t be good for the Obama presidency. He has got other fights to fight.”

Like getting a couple million into the budget for some pond filters at the White House, perhaps? Or trying to re-con people into re-electing him in 2012?

Kennedy called on to resign by Boston Globe

The Boston Globe – bastion of liberalism – has nevertheless called on Ted Kennedy to resign his US Senate seat. Not because of Mary Jo Kopechne, nor because of his need to lose belly fat, nor because of his absolute corruption of the Kennedy name, but because he’s sick, has brain cancer, and probably will not be able to live out his final term, which ends in 2012.

Kennedy has been absent for most of the US Senate’s 270 roll-call votes this year, and Massachusetts is basically short one Senator. So of course the Boston Globe’s solution is: quick, let’s get another Democrat in there before the voters can have a say.

Kennedy, who helped strip the Massachusetts governor of his right to name a replacement back when Republican Mitt Romney was governor, is now trying to restore that power, now that the Dems are back in control of the Governor’s mansion.

See what I mean by that “absolute corruption” remark yet?

How sweet it might be…

His eventual opponent isn’t even chosen yet, but Nevada Democrat and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is already running weak enough to lose to either of them, according to recent polls. Both Republicans considering runs against Reid, a list that includes Danny Tarkanian and Sue Lowden, were shown to be polling significantly higher than the Democrat incumbant.

Of course, Nevada is typically GOP territory and Reid has been a business gifts-getting, major ass for the better part of his current six year term, so it ought not be surprising. Tark would best Reid 49-39, while Lowden would get the job done with a closer shave at 45-40.

Tarkanian seems the best bet to overcome any Reid resurgence. Get it done, Nevada GOP! Make it so.