This is no longer about providing coverage -

- as if it ever even was in the first place. This week's activities in the Senate prove more than ever that the Democrats never really cared as much about providing universal coverage as much as they were simply trying to grab control of the healthcare system. The single biggest goal of the Dems was the public plan option because they thought it would provide guaranteed coverage to anyone who wanted it (legal or illegal, but that's a different story). Many Democrats openly stated in recent months that they would never endorse a plan that didn't have it. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid completely caved on that major point, and instead went to trying to offer medicare coverage to people as young as 55. Well, now he caved on that too. So, with no public plan option, and no medicare expansion, 59 of the 60 Democrat Senators would still vote for the plan (Lieberman included). I wish I could say "unbelievable", but it's right in line with their modus operandi. Their steadfast demands went right out the window, yet they're still willing to vote for it. Promises be damned - just grab control of as much as possible now and deal with the rest later.

Lieberman knows we simply cannot afford it!

What is it with the idealogues that stop them from understanding the basic premise that Medicare is already going broke, and that adding millions more to it will just make it worse?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/34421202#34421202

UPDATE - HE CAVED - NEVER MIND.........