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“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except congress.” Mark Twain
The Democrat are mentally ill and need psychiatric Health care.
I can’t believe that this bribery is constitutional. Isn’t there anything in the constitution that prohibits this sort of outright vote buying (using tax dollars from other states’ residents to boot)?
I mean, I understand where Congress has the right to spend money in a particular state, say in siting a military base, or a federal prison, or building an interstate highway, etc., but this is different in that it treats RESIDENTS of one state differently than another by effectively taxing them less.
Would it be constitutional, for instance, to set the federal income tax at a higher rate for Wisconsin residents than for Michigan residents? Would it be constitutional to offer Medicare to Illinois residents, but not to Iowa residents? There’s a line here that I believe has been crossed, but I don’t know what it is specifically.
Then again, all of this BS would have been declared unconstitutional by any Supreme Court before 1932 or so.
Precident????
Do you really believe this has never happened before?
The difference is that we have the internet and people who work hard enough to dig it up and put it on the net.
Until recently, we had only Eric Severide, Dan Rather and the NYT.
How much discussion of this topic and especially a discussion of the ethics involved have you seen on the Obummer, the Marxist now posing as a Fascist, controlled press?
The congress is and has been for many years a criminal enterprise.
It’s what we get for passing the 17th amendment!
She promptly turned around and held a "fundraiser" for the bribe giver!
Hang the lot of em!
When confronted with this, the liberal Democrats simply respond, “That’s the way our political system works.”
Yes, and that is precisely why we should not be letting the political system run our health care system. In the end, health care is going to be distributed based on politics, and that is a human rights violation of epic proportions.
Our health care system does not need reforming. It’s our political system that needs reforming.
People keep asking “Isn’t bribery illegal??”, well, actually, it is. Sounds to me like half of Congress could end up in the slammer!!
USC Title 18, Ch 11, Sec 201...
(b) Whoever—
(1) directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public official or person who has been selected to be a public official, or offers or promises any public official or any person who has been selected to be a public official to give anything of value to any other person or entity, with intent—
(A) to influence any official act; or
(B) to influence such public official or person who has been selected to be a public official to commit or aid in committing, or collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the United States; or
(C) to induce such public official or such person who has been selected to be a public official to do or omit to do any act in violation of the lawful duty of such official or person;
shall be fined under this title or not more than three times the monetary equivalent of the thing of value, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than fifteen years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
This is not a precedent it is business as usual - a time honored tradition.
Yes, but it is business as usual.
A lot of aspects of this bill are unconstitutional, including the bribes-for-votes deals. I think if this abominable bill ever gets passed, it’ll be tied up in court challenges for a *long* time, and at least large chunks of it won’t survive that process.
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It’s just out in the open in your face now. My guess is we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
This is MY money they are using to BUY VOTES.
What the (()*)(*&%^ !!!
Where is the GOP - did I miss their screaming on tv that this is unconstitutional. Why isn’t this being challanged?
I’m so mad I want to puke.
Bush adminitration get investigated right and left and there is all kinds of contortions to see if he and officials can be prosecuted on something, anything, but this garbage gets a pass? No wonder China and Russia view us as nothing but a bloated enemy who is crashing and burning.
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Boycott Nebraska.
Me | 12/20/04 | Me
Posted on Sunday, December 20, 2009 5:30:01 PM by Jeff Gordon
Senator Nelson of Nebraska cut a special deal. In exchange for agreeing to allow government funds be used for abortions, he got a special deal for Nebraska. The special deal was that Nebraska would not have to pay matching funds for Medicade. All the other 49 states must pay matching funds. Many of those state like my own state of California can not afford to pay those matching funds.
Who pays for Nebraska’s Medicare casts? All of us who live in the other 49 states. BS, I say. We should not stand by while Nebraska sucks money from all the rest of us.
BOYCOTT Nebraska! We should not give them any additional revenue after they got this sweet heart deal.
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