Posted on 03/30/2010 3:09:37 AM PDT by Son House
Since the health care reform push hit its final stretch, numerous sweeteners for lawmakers' districts and states have been found inside the package. Earmark requests are made outside of the health care bill, making them a bit more difficult to link to any vote-trading. But it is precisely that kind of tricky-to-catch deal-making that Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said he and other GOP senators would be monitoring for months to come.
"If you think you can cut a deal now and it not come out until after the election, I want to tell you that isn't going to happen," Coburn said a few days before the bill passed.
The individual earmarks requests from each of those lawmakers range from $20 million to $1.4 billion. Of the eight lawmakers whose 2010 requests were available for comparison, five requested more money than they did a year ago. Stupak requested $579 million.
Here are the earmark amounts requested by the 11 House Democrats in the 2011 bill:
Rep. Jerry Costello of Illinois.: $1,418.7 million ($256.4 million in 2010)
Rep. Solomon Ortiz of Texas: $618 million ($726.1 million in 2010)
Stupak of Michigan: $578.9 million
Rep. Steve Driehaus of Ohio: $332.2 million
Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio: $294 million ($305.7 million in 2010)
Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania: $236.8 million ($54 million in 2010)
Rep. James Oberstar of Minnesota.: $207 million ($226 million in 2010)
Rep. Brad Ellsworth of Indiana.: $115.4 million ($82.3 million in 2010)
Rep. Charles Wilson of Ohio: $84 million ($62.3 million in 2010)
Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania.: $67.1 million
Rep. Joseph Donnelly of Indiana: $19.8 million ($11.65 million in 2010)
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Ladies and gentlemen, you now have a perfect definition of the word “chutzpah.”
tar and feathers
Whores, the lot of them.
“...numerous sweeteners for lawmakers’ districts and states...”
Once upon a time, in a more forthright age long, long ago, these were known as “bribes.” What’s more, in those days bribery was frowned upon. Hard to believe, in our own, post-modern era - an era in which corruption and venality are taken for granted.
Cue Claude Rains...
I think you have the perfect definition on of ‘blood money’.
Why do you think they held back billions in ‘stimulus’ money?They knew they’s need the dough for bribes.Its the tried and true Chicago Way.
Was the Stupak Stipend on that list?
Grab the ropes... we have a lot of “work” to do... thieves in plain daylight!
LLS
Doesn’t this bribery with taxpayer’s money become illegal at some point?
Help me with the math. That is about, what, $10,000 per aborted child?
There ain't no such thing...and this proves it.
Plus it proves every RAT has its price.
How despicable to sell their semblance of scruples this way!
May someone among us at the right time be able to afford the tar and feathers!
HF
“Ladies and gentlemen, you now have a perfect definition of the word “chutzpah.””
Chutzpah is when you murder your parents, then beg for mercy from the judge because you’re an orphan.
These guys are just plain old whores.
*whispering* "Life is sometimes short; do you think Surprise! Surprise! Surrrpriiiise!
I am shocked I tell you.
Can we please stop using the phrase “Pro-Life Democrats”? It’s a contradiction in terms.
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