Sen. Joe Lieberman has gotten a liberal civic action group so riled up that they have raised $1 million in just two days and created a sock puppet video mocking him.
“Joe Lieberman is single-handedly gutting health care reform. And it's time someone held him accountable,” MoveOn,org says on its Web site. “So we're going to make sure every voter in Connecticut knows what he's doing. And then, when he comes up for re-election, we'll make sure we send him home for good.”
When MoveOn started the campaign on Tuesday, they wanted to raise $400,000, the Huffington Post reports.
The milestone comes the day after Michael Moore launched his own Twitter campaign to recall Lieberman, something neither state law nor the U.S. Constitution allow. And two days after Lieberman's colleague, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Democrat from New Haven, did the same.
Move On also launched a sock puppet video that takes shots at Lieberman, accusing him of flip-flopping on the Medicare option.
The sock puppet Lieberman demands that the other sock puppet senators make him senator for life, for his name to be inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance to replace the word "flag" and to grow 4 inches taller in return for his support, unless he decides to change his mind.
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Lieberman has said he is in favor of health care reform and he supports much of what’s in the “core” bill, but that the legislation “must expand coverage, contain costs, reform the way health care is delivered, and impose consumer protection regulations on the health insurance industry.”
He said he has opposed some provisions for fear that the would “unnecessarily add to the national debt, raise taxes, or endanger the fiscal solvency of the Medicare program.”
