Senator Joe Lieberman and the Public Option

Deadline Poet

By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the November 30, 2009 edition of The Nation.

November 11, 2009

If public option's in the bill, Joe says,
He'll work to make a filibuster stick.
If so, insurance giants then will cheer.
The poor will think of Joe when they are sick.

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About Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin is The Nation's "deadline poet." He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1963 and has written the syndicated weekly column "Uncivil Liberties" since 1986. He has authored many, many books, including Tepper's Not Going Out and Deadline Poet: My Life as a Doggerelist. more...
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