I did not know there were any Rivers there that need a new bridge. Wonder what he charged Obama to betray his state? The last Crat left will get the biggest Bribe.
Keep calling him..if this crap passes, America as we know it is done. I wonder how much these pricks are being paid off to destroy America
LIEberman will vote for cloture. Landrieu has been bribed with $100 million for her state as written in the bill for disaster relief.
The sheeple need to learn a lesson. Elections have consequences. They voted for this scum bum and now they're going to have this crammed down their throats, like it or not. Anyone with the eyes to see and ears to hear knew what Obama was. But they still voted for him and now we're all stuck with him. Hope you all like screwjobs, because we're going to get it.
Looks like they are buying Landrieu also. Where are Lincoln and Lieberman?
DEMOCRAT = COMMUNIST!
Let’s not mince words any more. Let us not hope for a favorable outcome. We are screwed!
I wonder what he got for his traitorous betrayal of America and his home state. Bastard!
Who am I kidding? Reid will buy the votes he needs. He only has a year and change left in office. What does he care. Its going to be another crappy Saturday night (House did it late on Sat night as well).
I hope Nebraska have voted for their last Democrat.
Many things done in Congress should be illegal, but this Landrieu bribe should really be illegal. That $100 million is to offset rising Medicaid costs the state must pay. Every state has increasing Medicaid costs, not just Louisiana, and this Obamacare bill will increase Medicaid even more.
There was also talk that a similar payoff might be made to Neveda to help Dingy Harry in his 2010 reelection bid. Not sure if that one is in this bill.
Why? Why would Ben, who already said he was against the public plan, do this?
Does he even give a s*** about what the people of Nebraska think??
Copy of my letter to a number of Senators including a few Democrats:
Dear Senator:
This is the first part of the email I received today from Senator Evan Bayh, followed by my reply.
A bipartisan push is needed to tame ballooning national debt
By Senator Evan Bayh
(CNN.com) - America’s national debt cannot grow beyond a limit imposed by Congress known as the “debt ceiling.”
In 1919, just after World War I, the limit on U.S. borrowing was $43 billion.
By 2001, it had grown to $5.9 trillion.
Today, the debt ceiling is at an all-time high of $12.1 trillion.
When President George W. Bush took office in 2001, our public debt amounted to 33 percent of our economy. Today, it is 60 percent of our gross domestic product. If we do nothing, our debt is projected to swell to over 70 percent by 2019.
To put those numbers in perspective: If you divided the debt equally among all Americans, every man, woman and child living in the United States today would owe more than $39,000.
Next month, members of Congress will be asked to vote to raise the roof on our allowable debt for the ninth time this decade.
Dear Senator Bayh:
I received your email and just read it this morning.
Do you really need to hire a new commission and pay those salaries when the answer to stopping the debt from topping at over 14 Trillion Dollars is to JUST GET EVERYONE IN THE SENATE TO VOTE NO ON THE HEALTH CARE BILL.
You say the easiest way is to keep borrowing. NO SIR. The EASIEST WAY is to VOTE NO on the Health Care Bill. You know it in your gut and so do your colleagues.
There’s going to be a TEN HOUR debate instead of a 36 hour reading of the Health Care Bill. What a trade off. You get to go home after you vote instead of staying up to read the bill. [sarcasm intended]
In those 10-hours YOU have the ability to convince Senators from both sides of the aisle that their vote NO is worth far more than Senator Reid or McConnell can promise them. It’s not worth the cost promised because it will cost taxpayer voters over $14,000,000,000. Fourteen TRILLION Dollars. Voters who do not want to be taxed or have taxes returned to Clinton levels.
NO, Vote NO and tell your colleagues why you are voting no. If you truly mean what you say about cutting expenditures, you will be very convincing in your discussion with your colleagues to get them to vote NO as well.
Thank you for reading this email. Copies are being sent to other [Republican] Senators including Senator McConnell.
PS: I am an Alabama Democrat living and voting in Georgia and was a card-carrying Republican until the GOP Chair, Michael Steele, refused to set a Constitutional Conservative Agenda for the GOP.
Questions? Call:
PPS: I failed to tell Senator Bayh that I am also sending this letter to Democrat Senators Nelson, Landrieu, and Lincoln.