Reid, Lieberman clash over letter
By: Glenn Thrush
Politico.com
January 14, 2010
For the second time in a week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) finds himself at the center of a political imbroglio stemming from something that he said in private that was subsequently broadcast to the outside world by unnamed sources.
Just as the furor over Reid’s racially charged remarks about President Barack Obama seemed to be fading, a new controversy was brewing over a soon-to-be published story in The New York Times Magazine that quotes Reid as telling unnamed associates that Sen. Joe Lieberman “double-crossed” him on health care reform.
Reid reportedly accused the Connecticut independent of blindsiding him last month when he went on “Face the Nation” and declared that he’d have “a hard time” backing a Reid-brokered Medicare compromise in the health care bill. But Leiberman is pushing back hard — and to make his case, he has provided POLITICO with a private letter he wrote Reid setting out his concerns before he aired them on national TV.
In a preview of a magazine profile of Reid posted Wednesday on the newspaper’s website, reporter Adam Nagourney writes that Reid was infuriated by Lieberman’s Dec. 13, 2009, appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Reid felt betrayed, Nagourney reports, because Lieberman had reportedly given him the impression he would back leadership during a closed-door meeting two days earlier.
(More here.)
Politico.com
January 14, 2010
For the second time in a week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) finds himself at the center of a political imbroglio stemming from something that he said in private that was subsequently broadcast to the outside world by unnamed sources.
Just as the furor over Reid’s racially charged remarks about President Barack Obama seemed to be fading, a new controversy was brewing over a soon-to-be published story in The New York Times Magazine that quotes Reid as telling unnamed associates that Sen. Joe Lieberman “double-crossed” him on health care reform.
Reid reportedly accused the Connecticut independent of blindsiding him last month when he went on “Face the Nation” and declared that he’d have “a hard time” backing a Reid-brokered Medicare compromise in the health care bill. But Leiberman is pushing back hard — and to make his case, he has provided POLITICO with a private letter he wrote Reid setting out his concerns before he aired them on national TV.
In a preview of a magazine profile of Reid posted Wednesday on the newspaper’s website, reporter Adam Nagourney writes that Reid was infuriated by Lieberman’s Dec. 13, 2009, appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Reid felt betrayed, Nagourney reports, because Lieberman had reportedly given him the impression he would back leadership during a closed-door meeting two days earlier.
(More here.)
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