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Thuggery.
Without the BIG bucks flowing into the public servants’ pockets, we wouldn’t even have a government. Right now, we’ve got the best government money can buy. If you have the BIG bucks, you can buy public servants pretty cheap.
I’m not so sure about the semi-satire tag as I have no doubt that this is really the way things work and not only with the ‘rats.
Dire consequences? Sounds like extortion to me.
.....many a true word spoken in jest....
Sounds like a Mafia protection racket or typical Chicago Democrat politics. If these wayward Dems wait awhile to get on board the gun-grabbers train, they can either collect handsome bribes, or they can wind up in an unfortunate “accident,” as so many Clinton opponents did.
The party of political blackmail.
It works too, the Dems have a stranglehold on their members.
Not one dares to stray from the party.
All too true, likely...
Except for the fake “direct quotes”, this article isn’t satire at all.
I NEED my second cuppa. Started to read without checking the byline. By the time I got to Paragraph 3, I woke up. You sure got my blood pressure working this am, John. Thanks.
“Since the vast majority of visits to doctors are unnecessary and often result in more harm than good, if costs for medical care rise we should expect overall health to improve,” Sebelius projected. “I mean, unless you are a trauma victim, the chances of medical intervention helping you are slim...
It may be "Semi" satire, but one believes, John, that you've captured the aristocratic essence of one Ms. Sebelius. (It also might be re-worded just slightly, and find its way into an HHS staff report.)
This weeks entire column is a candidate for the "Best Of".
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Way to go, John. Thanks again for the ping.
Sounds like bribery to me. No wait, if a rat does it it’s just “politics as usual” rather than bribery. Silly me.
Are dems as thuggy as they seem?