{"id":243398,"date":"2010-01-28T16:47:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70674"},"modified":"2010-01-28T17:18:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:18:25","slug":"lieberman-delivers-the-independents-response-to-the-state-of-the-union-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/243398","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman delivers the &#8220;independent&#8217;s response&#8221; to the State of the Union address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        You heard the President&#8217;s State of the Union speech and the Republican rebutall.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman delivered what he called the &#8220;Independent&#8217;s response&#8221; to Obama&#8217;s address.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Democrat-turned-independent from Connecticut says, on the whole, he liked what he heard.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I though the President was very effective last night,&#8221; Lieberman said in a conference call with Connecticut reporters Thursday afternoon. Although he has often been at odds with Democratic leaders, and was a main bulwark to the health care bill that formed the centerpiece of Obama&#8217;s domestic agenda, Lieberman said Obama on Wednesday delivered &#8220;exactly the right speech for this moment in his presidency.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He praised Obama for reaching beyond his partisan base by expressing support for such initiatives as nuclear power, off-shore drilling and easing taxes on small businesses.<\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>        Lieberman also says he feels a kinship of sorts with newly elected Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown. Even though Brown is a Republican who&#8217;s views on several issues contrast sharply with many of his own, Lieberman said he is looking forward to working with Brown.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>During his acceptance speech, Brown repeatedly invoked the word &#8220;independent,&#8221; Lieberman said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I just hope and I have some confidence that when he comes in here he&#8217;ll continue that,&#8221; Lieberman said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lieberman met Brown while working on John McCain&#8217;s presidential campaign and called to congratulate him after his stunning win to fill the Senate seat left vacant when Ted Kennedy died. &#8220;The Massachusetts election was not just a message to Democrats [it was] a message to Republicans and Independents as well.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What about his own political future? Lieberman, whose term ends in 2012, isn&#8217;t saying whether he&#8217;ll run as a Democrat, a Republican or an independent.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But he hinted that he&#8217;s quite comfortable being a party of one. Being an independent &#8220;fits me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s who I am.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You heard the President&#8217;s State of the Union speech and the Republican rebutall. On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman delivered what he called the &#8220;Independent&#8217;s response&#8221; to Obama&#8217;s address. The Democrat-turned-independent from Connecticut says, on the whole, he liked what he heard. &#8220;I though the President was very effective last night,&#8221; Lieberman said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}