Posted on 11/21/2009 1:40:01 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
Remember earlier this year when the new era of hope and change was ushered into Washington, D.C. and President Barack Obama made the statement on day one his policies would “represent a clean break from business as usual"?
Not so fast says Charles Krauthammer, columnist for The Washington Post and Fox News regular. Krauthammer on the Nov. 20 broadcast of Fox News “Special Report with Bret Baier” explained that a certain provision put into to the Senate version of health care legislation to favor undecided Democratic senators, specifically Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., represents a different brand of politics from what Obama advertised (emphasis added).
“You asked what [Sen.] Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas will ask for,” Krauthammer said. “Well, after watching Louisiana get $100 million in what have some have called ‘The Louisiana Purchase,’ she ought to ask for $500 million at least. And that’s because Obama said he would end business as usual in Washington. If you look at the sections, it is 2006 in which the Louisiana money, it looks as if it is provision for all states which have had a proclamation of a disaster area in the last seven years, and then the fine print inside eliminates all the others except Louisiana. So it’s a new kind of business as usual. I think that Steve [Hayes] is right. There is almost no way imaginable that the vote will fail tomorrow. If it is, it is the ultimate humiliation. It’s the rejection of the debate even before it starts.”
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Banana Republic here we come (or are). Our forefathers are turning in their graves. That is, if their graves haven’t been destroyed yet.
Next question.
I think Mary made a huge mistake. People in Louisiana are not impressed with her deal.
In all honesty, Mary isnt he only prostitute in the Senate.
A lot of them are being bought , one at a time.
Selling out America for 30 pieces of silver.
To all true Americans of every generation, constitutionally-limited republican self-government and liberty have been considered priceless things, worthy of the sacrifice of EVERYTHING to defend.
Mary Landrieu and her cohorts are willing to sell it all for a few greenbacks.
I found it just a bit ironic that the Mary Landrieau (sp?) pay-off came in at $100MM. Does anyone remember that one of Obama’s claims to fame early in his administration was when his Cabinet spent a day looking at their various budgets and came up with $100MM in “savings”. Big deal! It gets wiped out with one paragraph in the “health care reform” bill — as a bribe to a LA senator!
Despicable humans. This is not America. They have violated thier oath of office and thier committment to we the people the constitution and the security of this country. They need to be held accountable, they all need to be prosecuted for crimes against America.
Can any legal mind tell me if RICO can be used?
Or if their headstones haven’t yet been harvested for names for voting rolls!
The U.S. paid 60 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), a total cost of 15 million dollars for the Louisiana territory.$100 Million Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed all or part of 14 current U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River, most of North Dakota, nearly all of South Dakota, northeastern New Mexico, the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide, and Louisiana west of the Mississippi River Wikipediaand
That's inflation for you . . . now it costs more for one lousy vote from one Louisiana senator than Jefferson paid for the whole Louisiana Territory.
Considering the pay outs to other groups or past history Landrieu was a cheap street hooker. In California public sector unions get sweetheart deals worth billions of dollars for a few million dollars of campaign money.
Society Lady: How much do you have in mind ?
GBS:Two Pounds
SL: Two Pounds ! What do you take me for ?
GBS: Madam we've already established that. All we're doing now is arguing about the price.
Talleyrand was vague about the boundaries of the land that Napoleon sold to the US. Some Americans believed that it included Texas. John Quincy Adams gave Texas away to Spain in 1819, but we later "re-annexed" it.
The Wikipedia article shows an old map which has California labeled "New Albion" (California appears on the map but for Baja California).
The list, ping
Mary will be standing beside the boxcars handing out wooden soap and taking her Gestapo orders from Reid and Pelosi. Didn’t the world see trials in Nuremberg for scum like this?
Behold the enemies within. Who needs foreign enemies when we have traitors like these feces in political office.
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