As the old joke goes, a wizened old tycoon approaches a curvaceous blonde at a bar. “If I gave you a check for $5 million,” he asks her, “would you sleep with me tonight?” She looks at him, stunned. He’s a revolting specimen, but five million bucks would take care of her sick parents and set her up for life. “All right,” she replies, gulping. “I’ll do it.” Thereupon the old guy hands her a $5 bill and starts to lead her away. “Five dollars!” she cries. “What do you think I am?!” The old man glowers at her: “We’ve established what you are. At this point we’re just haggling over price.”
From the Washington Post:
Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) secured the pivotal 60th vote after acceding to the demands of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) for tighter restrictions on insurance coverage for abortions, along with increased federal aid for his home state and breaks for favored health-care interests. [emphasis added]
From the New York Times
The “Louisiana Purchase,” as it is being called, a provision for Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, who obtained an extra $300 million in Medicaid funds for her state.
Deals like this are nothing new in Washington – or state legislatures either, for that matter. But Harry Reid has likely taken political whoring to a new height – or low. He held the health care bill “negotiations” in secret, like a john with a back alley hooker. Maybe that’s because the bill he and his Democrat sluts are purveying are about as socially acceptable as nasty crack whores peddling their diseased wares.
It isn’t Harry Reid’s money. It isn’t the Senate’s money. It’s not even the government’s money.
It’s mine and yours.
Who is Reid to “negotiate” with hundreds of millions of our dollars? That kind of gamble might be legal in his home state of Nevada, but it doesn’t work for me.
Come to think of it, prostitution is also legal in Nevada.
Well there ya go… Harry Reid thinks he’s America’s pimp and Nelson and Landrieu have been all too eager to “spread ‘em” for the right amount of cash. And these two are just the most publicized prostitutes of which we are aware.
Now… we certainly don’t expect our representatives to be saints, but neither do we reckon them to be whores who sell OUR principles for OUR dollars to the benefit of others.
This isn’t the “bang for our buck” we want for our taxes.
~ GS
The sheeple in Nevada better wake up and vote land deal out of office. How may States are paying the bill for Lousinia and now Nebraska? What did the other 58 dimocrat congress critters get out of the this sham? Notice that Windsey Gwaham has been silent lately. Is Windsey Gwaham out wabbit hunting with lurch kerry? Some of the so called professional politicians running for Governor of SC might want to start listening to the people and not their financial backers.
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It gives one such peace of mind to know that we have the best Government that money can buy.
It is nothing more than business as usual. For years we have been played by the politicians thinking that we will always fall for their bull. Wake up and realize that politicians of all persuasions are not interested in anything but your vote. They can only promise, not guarantee.
My new politicians creed, ” I will always tell you the truth, even if I have to make it up.
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well stated Spy
add my ditto
I’d call ALL politicians crack-whores, but that might be offensive to legitimate crack-whores.
They poop on the Constitution. They ignore the people. They buy votes with OUR money. They enslave us with their laws, executive orders and departmental declarations. They give us no choice but to respond to this act of war in kind.
If ANYONE believes that this can be turned around in the next election, you’re foolish. The damage is done and there is nothing that a bunch of leftist Republicans are going to do to stop it. You can vote all true conservatives into office next go ’round and they can try to appeal ALL liberty robbing bills, but the usurper in office will never sign them and if we wait until 2012 it WILL be too late. How would anyone propose that all of this damage be rolled back anyway?? It is time to use any means necessary to stop it. Secession is starting to look like the best option at this point. We can not let this tyranny stand.