Seven Demoncrats fell out of lockstep formation to ditch Adegbile....and suckup Harkin, playing the race card, as usual....is (thank you Jesus) retiring at the end of the year.
Demoncrats also getting the bum's rush: Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin of Michigan Levin, Tim Johnson of South Dakota and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia are set to depart when their terms expire. Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont, is expected to resign early to become US ambassador to China.
Sap-happy Harkin went to Cuba and praised nationalized health care and low child mortality (stupidly failing to note forced abortions keep the numbers down----and Cubans are forced to ask US relatives to send thread and needles for impending surgery).
Needless to say, Harkin loves Obamacare.
SEN. TOM HARKIN (D-Iowa): “One of the things we put in the health care bill when we designed it, was the protection for consumers to keep the plan they have if they like it; thus, the term ‘grandfathered plans.’ If you have a plan you like — existing policies — you can keep them. … we said, if you like a plan, you get to keep it, and you can grandfather it in.” (Sen. Harkin, Congressional Record, S.7675-6, 9/29/10)
Seems as if Harkin could have starred in Michael Moore's film about Cuban health care! (LOL!!!)