Landrieu’s $100 Million Vote
We’ve always speculated that a politician’s vote can be bought. We’d like to think that’s not the norm and that if the practice is done, at least it’s done with some attempt at discretion.
On page 432 of the Senate bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
ABC News has been told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill. In other words, the bill spends two pages describing what could be written with a single world: Louisiana.
Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without Landrieu’s support. How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.
That’s as in your face as can be.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
ABC News is in the news a lot lately. Has ABC News rediscovered “journalistic integrity”? Why is Couric still part of their business? I would like to give credit to ABC, but I can’t help but wonder about their weakest link.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Oh yeah, buying votes… that is news. Why is it the professionals are always the last to know?
November 20th, 2009 at 7:35 am
So let’s all call Mary and let her know that as AMERICANS, what SHE does affects all of us, whether we hail from her state or not.
Also call Ben Nelson of Nebraska and there are two others, one from Arkansas and I have to dig up the other… all this protesting is numbing my mind….
November 20th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Syble, don’t give up – this is what the Obamanation and the Axis of Weasels is trying to do, get everybody so tired of fighting that they just quit. Oldest tactic in the book…
Igor