60 Senators voted for cloture on the Manager’s Amendment to the health care bill and are expected to also vote for cloture on the bill itself. 20 of those 60 Senators received payoffs for their states in the bill. 21, if you count the stealth earmark requested by Senator Dodd. There’s no doubt that the bill would not have gotten 60 votes without these payoffs, and the sheer volume of payoffs leads me to wonder if the bill would even have gotten 50 votes without them.
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So what is this supposed to be, Eric? Some sort of revelation? Politicians are as buyable as postage stamps, except a lot more expensive. But if you have some historical perspective on this, please tell me when government in general wasn’t a rigged game. In World War II, for example, aside from all the defense plants serving as the ‘arsenal of democracy’, and also except for the Manhattan Project — which none of us were even aware of until the first two atomic bombs were dropped on live targets in early August 1945, most of use citizens assumed that the biggest industry in wartime America was the black market, which dealt in just about every type of commodity that was rationed.
As for the specifics of the health care legislation, many of us are at the point where we don’t give a damn any longer whether they pass it or don’t pass it.
In any case, I’m not certain a joint committee of the US House of Representatives and the US Senate will pass the Senate version of this bill under any circumstance.
For Obama, this whole venture is beginning to look like the roadmap to peace in the Middle East.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Nope, no surprise. Just shaking my head and trying to do my bit to make sure people notice the ongoing corruption.
The other thing I’m shaking my head over is that our policians are for sale for such a low price. A massive new entitlement program costing trillions of dollars and a partial government takeover of a sixth of the economy are being bought with a hundred million dollars here and a billion dollar there.
Now that all the cards are on the table and we see how the game is rigged, the 40 should withhold their votes until they get matching bribes. I see my Senators have already done their part:
But they should hold out for more:
If Benedict Nelson can get a permanent exemption, why can’t they?
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