{"id":84828,"date":"2009-12-16T05:33:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T10:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/lieberman-threatens-to-go-gop-in-2012-torpedoing-all-hopes-of-getting-to-60-on-healthcare-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-16T05:33:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T10:33:20","slug":"lieberman-threatens-to-go-gop-in-2012-torpedoing-all-hopes-of-getting-to-60-on-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/84828","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman Threatens To Go GOP In 2012, Torpedoing All Hopes Of Getting To 60 On Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b28b73500000000000ae0b8\" border=\"0\" alt=\"joe lieberman\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare holdout Joe Lieberman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/live\/health-care\/#308091\">tells CNN<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/click.phdo?i=0cd67291359120e92cb3509a6573b2f2\">Megan McArdle<\/a>) he may run as a Republican in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s going on here?<\/p>\n<p>Basically he&#8217;s sending the GOP a VERY clear message. If I vote against healthcare, you guys give me some kind of seniority in the caucus when I go turncoat.<\/p>\n<p>If the GOP makes the promise, then it&#8217;s all over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/lieberman-threatens-to-go-gop-in-2012-torpedoing-all-hopes-of-getting-to-60-on-healthcare-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/busted-lieberman-caught-flip-flopping-on-medicare-buy-in-2009-12\">BUSTED: Lieberman Caught Flip-Flopping On Medicare Buy-In<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/harry-reid-caves-to-lieberman-on-healthcare-reform-2009-12\">Harry Reid Caves To Lieberman On Healthcare Reform<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/its-not-just-lieberman-several-democrats-are-freaked-out-about-healthcare-reform-passing-2009-12\">It&#8217;s Not Just Lieberman: Several Democrats Are Freaked Out About Healthcare Reform Passing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/ypvvbSo-90k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare holdout Joe Lieberman tells CNN (via Megan McArdle) he may run as a Republican in 2012. What&#8217;s going on here? Basically he&#8217;s sending the GOP a VERY clear message. If I vote against healthcare, you guys give me some kind of seniority in the caucus when I go turncoat. If the GOP makes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84828","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}