Wow. One day after announcing our new TV ad pressuring Sen. Joe Lieberman on public option, the momentum is tremendous.
Our message about Joe Lieberman being out-of-step with his constituents was reported on by the New York Times, Washington Post, Hartford Courant, NBC, ABC, CBS, local TV, progressive blogs, and others. (See media links below.)
Rachel Maddow played our Lieberman ad on national TV and said, “That’s what it looks like when liberals push back!” Exactly!
News broke yesterday that progressive and conservative senators are meeting to strike a final deal on health care and that Lieberman thinks his obstruction makes him “relevant.” By expanding our ad in DC, we can tell other senators to ignore Lieberman — he’s not even representing his own constituents.
Check out this example of Lieberman’s arrogance, in direct response to our TV ad. From the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent:
A spokesman for Joe Lieberman, whose talent for annoying liberals seems to have grown exponentially in the heat of the health care fight, is now responding to a liberal group’s new ad hammering the Senator by dismissing the public option as the “agenda of narrow ideological interest groups.”
Seriously? 68% of Connecticut voters who support the public option are a “narrow ideological interest?” This guy deserves to feel more heat.
