Posted on 12/22/2009 2:11:47 AM PST by Scanian
Too bad Barack Obama hasn't followed through on his promises of legislative transparency. Then we all could have watched Harry Reid live on C-SPAN handing an oversized Publishers Clearing House-style $100 million check to Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson.
The highest-profile Democratic hold-out on ObamaCare, Nelson said last week, "My vote is not for sale." He obviously meant that in the sense that he'd be righteously indignant at any suggestion that his vote could possibly be bought for anything less than the low nine digits.
Nelson got the feds to pick up forevermore 100 percent of the added Medicaid spending that the bill will impose on Nebraska. In stereotypically Orwellian fashion, the provision is called "Equitable Support for Certain States." That, naturally enough, translates into special, inequitable support for three states, totaling $1.2 billion over 10 years. Vermont and Massachusetts argue they're due the funds for prior expansions of Medicaid, but what's Nebraska's excuse?
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
At that point the compact is broken as far as I am concerned.
From RedState:
Reid has slipped in a provision into the health care legislation prohibiting future Congresses from changing any regulations imposed on Americans by the Independent Medicare [note: originally referred to as "medical"] Advisory Boards, which are commonly called the “Death Panels.”
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/12/21/we-are-no-longer-a-nation-of-laws-senate-sets-up-requirement-for-super-majority-to-ever-repeal-obamacare/
If the bill is so wonderful, why has Reid had to resort to buying Democrat votes?
What dirtbags like Reid and Nelson need is a dose of the Full Rostenkowski!
Maybe that will put the fear of God in them.
If not, we can resort to something of greater originality and impact.
There is no lacking of whores in the sewer called Washington, DC when it comes to selling their vote for 30 pieces of silver.
Well said! Our Orwellian masters should make no assumptions whatever about what we now view as the full range of options in opposition. Traditional boundaries no longer apply.
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