Snowball Politics PrevailPosted Sunday, November 22, 2009, at 12:43 PM
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The healthcare reform was on the edge of the vote needed to get to a victory. Snowball politics prevail. "Doing nothing is not an option," Landrieu said. Her support was garnered in part by a provision in the bill that would deliver higher Medicaid payments to Louisiana health-care providers." Washington Post. And Bloomberg reported that Landrieu "won the inclusion of an extra $100 million in federal aid for low-income people in her state." So of the 2,000 some-odd pages of this healthcare bill, how much of it are inclusions to buy votes? How is this any different from bribing? Or to put the shoe on the senator's foot, how is this different from blackmailing? Mary Landrieu is a perfect example of this political blackmailing done every day on Capital Hill. She knew that the Dems needed her vote to complete the 60 votes needed. And so the courtship began. Mary had been working on her special pet project to get more Medicaid payments to her state. It was the project she needed to get her elected and to keep her on the Hill. Holding off her support for the healthcare bill and letting it be known what her price would be was brilliant. Suddenly, an inclusion to the bill to get her state between $300 to $100 million was produced and Mary's support was bought. Snowball>1 Integrity, honest ethics>0 Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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Change we can believe in Kim! Who cares how we pay for it or how long it takes to pay for it. George W. had his weapons of mass destruction and Obama had his promise of "change" (too bad it snowed so many). Now, we can spend the rest of our lives and 5 generations (or more) attempting to pay for "change" and "things to make our lives better." Anybody currently in DC representing the people should be voted out. Why do we celebrate people in Congress for 56 years? They are corrupt crooks. Pretty sad when criminals are celebrated. Then again, this is Government/politics. All is fair right?
Actually Landrieu might not be getting more Medicaid money for her state. They are suppose to cut medicaid and medicare and if they cut medicaid the payment will most likely stay the same as it is now or become less
There would never be any "deals cut behind closed doors", or bribe payoffs just to get votes.
Everything with this administration is right out in the open, ain't it?
Part of that "transparency" Obama promised his followers, in order to get elected.
I'm real curious about that special broadcast at 7:PM tonight
Massively off subject: I just wanted to say hello to Bazookaman...... Miss your blog!!!! Its good to see you again...
Don't worry Missylynn, Bazooka may not have his own blog but he faithfully writes as comments to other blogs. So you'll always know how he feels about a subject.
Bazooka: what program at 7pm. I missed it watching GI JOE.
OM: Change we can fail with, huh. The snowball is barreling through this country and I fear that it can't be stopped.
That 7:PM broadcast was just a Sarah Palin interview with Hannity. Now, while I LIKE Gov. Palin, and it WAS a good interview, it was NOT what I was lead to believe from hte previous emails I'd received...............which hinted there was going to be some breaking stuff on Obama.
To be sure, there ARE some heavy things in the works, and I thought that's what was happening. False alarm, although I DID enjoy the show.
PS to MissyLynn............Thank you. Good to hear from you again as well. My old blog was getting to be an exercise in futility, and in some of the heated exchanges, one always had to be careful not to divulge anything the "other side' doesn't need to know....even by accident.
I just chime in every now and then. Kim is an exceptional writer, takes the time to do her research and I think it annoys the libs out there, which just suits me plumb elegant!
They're having a tough enough time continuing to try to justify those nincompoops of theirs back in D.C., without having to deal with facts at the same time.
Anyway................welcome home.
Not to discredit anyone but I get the feeling that this is just a smalltown version of the Weekly World News or National Enquirer. Impartial logic seems to escape most. Politics is always a game. No matter how honest the participants are or claim to be. Facts and history alone do not act as the deciding factors in a decision. Opinions and feelings are involved and we all know how irrational those can be.
Nothing personal Twil, but you haven't lived the true American life anywhere near long enough..................to fully realize what we've already been robbed of, and what is actually at stake today.
And you can't employ "logic" when dealing with an out-of-control tyrannical government. Like dealing with the "neighborhood bully"...............the only thing he's gonna understand is a good butt-whoopin'.
Yes Bazooka...these kids in college think they know it all and have the world by the...
As time goes by, history is rewritten and reworked to be more PC. People are not taught to think anymore. It is all pretty sad.
I just dont buy into prophetic speeches and ranting, sensationalist types. Politics (national or just office games) is not based on facts. It is gut feelings and trying to win favor. I just scoff at those who fully believe the media word for word. For every story they break, I always factor in about 50% of it is exaggeration and filler meant to draw the crowd in. Life is not always that dramatic.
Oh Tim. Get back to us in about 30 years and see where you stand once you have "been there and done that." Life is normally about 50% MORE dramatic than you think it is unless you have those blinders on and live in denial.
Yes Kim, I agree with your statement 100%. People have gone along with things for so long that all you can do now is wait for the crash and listen for the screams. This is what happens when people sit back and allow life to happen. Now look what we have got?
Do you believe in HISTORY Twil? History is not rhetoric, rantings or theory.
History is something that's already HAPPENED. Nobody can dispute events that have actually taken place.
What we're seeing NOW...............this world has seen BEFORE.
You and I have not PERSONALLY seen it, and your leftist professors weren't around then, either.
But my parents, uncles and aunts...........and YOUR grandparents saw it happen. Ask THEM what happens when governments start RUNNING everything. THEY fought a huge war over it.
You CANNOT allow any government to run amuck, unchecked, cutting back-door deals and payoffs to pass bills, despite the will of the people.
This healthcare fiasco is but ONE scene of ONE act of this giant melodrama designed to collapse the country, in order for the bad guys to burn our Constitution for good, and "re-organize" us under One money, One system and One flag.
A lot of you guys out there are being led to believe it's all gonna be some kind of Utopia, where everyone will get along.............there'll be flowers, happy children, everything provided that you'll ever need. A classless society where there'll be no rich, no poor..............all will be equal and harmonic.
Everything will be coming up roses.
Sometimes I can't tell politicians from car salesmen.
But I'm not buying from EITHER of them!
OK, one example of why i dont take politics all that seriously.
Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the USSR. The man wins the Nobel Prize. Americans and others around the world sing his praises for instituting glasnost and perestroika. Change, in simpler words. First fallacy, the man was not a humanitarian aimed at benefitting everyone in a selfless manner.
Next, Reagan and others give these very politicizied, canned speeches to Germany and others telling him to tear down the wall. This speech was simple hot air. The U.S. would have been asinine to even consider an all out war or threat. Not that we could not win but what would be the benefit. Pride is not enough to condone such an act of stupidity. Second fallacy, the Berlin Wall did not come down because of Reagan or anything related to it. There are plenty of impartial sources to back it up.
The end of USSR was due to being broke. They could pay the army nor anyone else. Gorbachev was simply preventing a larger, more destructive revolution. Outside threats had nothing to do with it. The garbage that we saw on TV was pure rhetoric. The substance of this whole scenario was that they were bankrupt and living a lie that the people were starting to discover.
I dont take politicians word for word. I know that they are salesmen that are simply more accepted. The media is not impartial either. They aim to make money and serve an agenda. Informing the public comes third. Truth is a hard thing to know. Everyone seems to be scared of it. In the end, it is usually not as interesting as that of the dramatic nonsense that comes forth on TV.
Take seriously of what you just SAID then.................The end of the USSR was due to being broke.
Is THAT ringing a bell as Obama & company continue to spend?
Incidently y'all..............in the Ventura County Star (Compton, California newspaper)..........they just had a drive in Compton for citizens to turn their guns in for $100.00 gift certificates from TARGET/BEST BUY/ and RALPH'S.
I don't look at this is just a California thing. I intend to spread the word and BOYCOTT the Idaho stores as well. Corporations who do not support my rights, do not get my business.
California doesn't surprise me anyway...............only in "Fruitland" would they think anyone with a brainwave would turn in a 600 dollar Smith & Wesson for a hundred dollar gift certificate. That kind of thinking is a prime example of why that state is bankrupt.
Governor "Arnold' also just signed a bill that wll require anyone buying ammo to not only have to SIGN for it, but submit to being thumb-printed.
They're harder on the decent folks than they are on illegals and terrorists.
Where ya at, Dave Thompson? Got some kind of link that reports OTHERWISE, to the two latest newsflashes I just posted?
Too bad Eric Holder & cohorts don't monitor child molesters and terrorists as diligently as they seek to control the rest of us.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
PS...............that's the reason you'll never see me in Wendy's.
You don't support our Constitution, you don't get my business.............or my vote.
there are some similarities. I brought it up to show that the media and politicians make certain events into things that they are not. If Gorbachev would have told the world that he made the changes because the USSR was broke, it would have been on the 8th page of the newspaper. No one wants to hear that. Now if he blows some smoke and tells everybody that he is feeling like Mother Teresa with a sex change then that gets some pub. He know how to spin it so that he could live in peace after his time at the top was over. The point is that cold hard, boring, truth is not fashionable. Being accountable and telling it like it is, no matter how bad or good it makes one look has gone by the wayside.
Yeah I forgot about "fashionable" being the trend now, instead of "right and wrong"
And 52% of this country made the worst "fashion statement" imaginable last November.
Bazooka:
The majority of those guns turned in are worthless 22 or 25 that when purchased new cost less then 100 bucks. What is wrong with turning crappy guns into holiday cheer? It isn't mandatory and the pigs ain't smashing down doors to get them guns. Your turning something harmless into the end of society again, again, again, again. Your gone man,....
Nothing wrong at all in getting rid of the crappy guns.................but you and I BOTH know that wasn't their intent or hope.
The fact that they sponsored one at ALL, puts them off my store list forever, and I KNOW I'm not alone here.
I remember a few years back when TIME magazine wrote a scathing front page special against honest gun owners, and promptly lost over 600,000 subscribers.
The "Boise 'Bama Booster" is in a financial hurt right now as well.
K-Mart lost a considerable bunch too, when they pulled ammunition off the shelves and hired Rosie O'Donnell as their spokeswoman.
People pay more attention to things, than a lot of corporations think they do.
Here is a question. How do you crash a dinner party if you are allowed beyond several security check points and ALLOWED/invited in? Seems like a SS/security failure as opposed to a criminal act against the 2 people involved (who made the "illegal entry"). Sounds like a cover up for a crappy security force.
Right now, that's OK by me!