Doing a shitty job

How do you convince a man he is wrong when he has nothing to lose? Joe Lieberman has another 4 years before he's up for reelction and likely won't run. Joe has decided that he might side with republicans when it comes to giving the health care reform bill an up or down vote in the Senate. He might help the Republicans fillibuster the bill.

Joe may have been a Vice Presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2000, but even before then he was only a half Democrat at best. For military and financial matters, he would often side with conservatives. On social issues, he was a fairly dependable Democrat, until Bush 2 came along. Liberty took a back seat to social justice. Several Democratic Senators were guilty of the same thing, but this was the only area in which Lieberman was in allignment with the Democrats. Once that was gone, he was a Democrat in name only, and that name isn't even there anymore. He had to run as an independent because the Democratic party in the State of Connecticut rejected him. He ran, and won using health care money, potentially blood money, to win his seat back.

So here's Joe. Propped up by Insurance money, not needing another vote for another election and soon to be looking for a job, presumably in the healthcare industry. What's Joe going to do? Hopefully Joe is just padding his resume on his way out. He's already done so much for the industry. They owe him a cushy board position. Maybe some speaking engagements for an inflated fee. Hopefull Joe will raise some objections and offer an amendment and be able to say in the interview "Hey, I tried!".

So here we are. Needing Joe? Maybe. Let's buy him off just to be sure. Wait. I can't afford that, and I'm guessing that collectively, we couldn't either.

Again, I ask...How do you convince a man he is wrong when he has nothing to lose?

Shame.

If he can feel pride, he can feel shame.