Krauthammer on Landrieu $100 Million Buyoff: 'It's a New Kind of Business as Usual'

Newsbusters ^ | Nov. 21, 2009 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

Remember earlier this year when the new era of hope and change was ushered into Washington, D.C. and President Barack Obama made the statement on day one his policies would "represent a clean break from business as usual"?

Not so fast says Charles Krauthammer, columnist for The Washington Post and Fox News regular. Krauthammer on the Nov. 20 broadcast of Fox News "Special Report with Bret Baier" explained that a certain provision put into to the Senate version of health care legislation to favor undecided Democratic senators, specifically Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., represents a different brand of politics from what Obama advertised (emphasis added).

"You asked what [Sen.] Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas will ask for," Krauthammer said. "Well, after watching Louisiana get $100 million in what have some have called ‘The Louisiana Purchase,' she out to ask for $500 million at least. And that's because Obama said he would end business as usual in Washington. If you look at the sections, it is 2006 in which the Louisiana money, it looks as if it is provision for all states which have had a proclamation of a disaster area in the last seven years, and then the fine print inside eliminates all the others except Louisiana. So it's a new kind of business as usual.

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[NTHockey]

They’ve been warned - twice.

“We come unarmed, this time.” Sign at 9/12 March on Washington.

[muawiyah]

Not enough ~ they can "fix" cervical cancer ~ how about pancreatic cancer instead? It's even difficult to treat just the pain for that one.

Alas, we digress. None of us wants Moon Landrieu's daughter to suffer the pain of pancreatic cancer, but we do want her to get a brain transplant ~ quickly.

She's making Louisianans look like thieves and montebanks....... AGAIN!