REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT AT ITS WORST.
The Senate passed its health care bill last night and in doing so did not exactly cover itself in glory. The numerous high-profile payoffs and shameless sellouts used to secure the bill’s passage were enough to make one lose all faith in representative government. Rep. Cantor hit the nail on the head when he stated, “They’re allocating taxpayer dollars as if those dollars belonged to the senators. It borders on immoral. Just look at the way Senator Landrieu put her vote up for sale. Senator Nelson did the same.”
Michelle Malkin breaks down who got what in “Cash for Cloture.”
As my fellow Alabamian pointed out below:
“But when you express moral opposition to a bill and that moral opposition suddenly evaporates when your state gets enough money – that is a whole different matter. In Alabama, we have a word for a person who sells his self for money – a whore.”
Sen. Nelson, Sen. Landrieu, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world, but for extra Medicare funding?
“They’re allocating taxpayer dollars as if those dollars belonged to the senators”
On the contrary. If they were passing out their won money they’d be a lot more thrifty.
But seriously — OMG! Senators sometimes use logrolling and pork to move a bill!?! That’s not what they taught us in sixth-grade civics! Next you’ll be saying that shamelessly disingenuous arguments are sometimes made to whip up cheap moral outrage. And surely that can’t be true.
The Nebraskan Gigalo shows that he can compete with any Louisiana Floozy.
True enough, but if I get really sick, I’m moving to Nebraska.
Hey, at least Landrieu and Nelson received something for their “services” – Virginia Senator Jim Webb, who decried elitists and socialist in his “Born Fighting” history of the Scots-Irish, acted like a drunk slut on a Saturday night and just gave it away.
Were there any provisions in the health care bill for political VD?
there is a reason you never hear the term “statesman” anymore…
P J Orourke nailed it in “Parliament of Whores”
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