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Sen Joe Lieberman likes to take center stage whenever he can, it seems, and this time he is threatening to side with the Republicans, and filibuster the Senate's health care bill unless the Democrats drop expanded Medicare coverage and the public option from the proposed bill. Joe, I like your way of doing business so much, that I have a counter-threat: if you make good on your plans to filibuster a bill that would provide health care to ...
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