Posted on 12/19/2009 8:42:15 AM PST by MaestroLC
Politico reports:
Sen. Mary Landrieu got the "Louisiana Purchase." Sen. Ben Nelson got the federal government to pick up most his state's future Medicaid tab -- forever.As part of the deal to win Nelson's support, the federal government will fund Nebraska's new Medicaid recipients. It's a provision worth about $45 million over the first decade.
Also from John McCormack...
Nelson Agrees to Abortion Funding in at Least 13 States?
Harry Reid has released the manager's amendment that Ben Nelson has reportedly agreed to vote for, meaning that the Senate bill has 60 votes. The abortion language includes the phony segregation of funding language that was rejected in the House. It would allow individual states to opt out of the abortion-funding program--in other words, the default position is to pay for abortions; states would have to pass legislation to not fund abortions. But states where public abortion-funding is mandated by state court rulings would be required to pay for abortions:
(1) NO PREEMPTION OF STATE LAWS REGARDING ABORTION.Nothing in this Act shall be construed to preempt or otherwise have any effect on State laws regarding the prohibition of (or requirement of) coverage, funding, or procedural requirements on abortions, including parental notification or consent for the performance of an abortion on a minor.
There are 13 states where the state supreme court has required public abortion funding according to this map from the ACLU (assuming it's up to date). Four states have decided through their legislatures to pay for Medicaid abortions. So Ben Nelson is going to allow federal tax dollars to pay for abortions in California and New York?
Can’t we prosecute these guys for taking bribes in return for their vote? There has to be a way. We should have an army of lawyers looking into every aspect of this, just like the Dems.
There still is a way to defeat the bill...make them an offer they can’t refuse.
I can agree that the naive do-gooders in the rank and file actually believe this, but the communist clowns that are shovin this at us are simply clawin for more power over other men, and thus simply driven by their human evil and will never be satisfied, until they are stopped by other humans, or the Lord himself...
You are correct, but the conf report in the Senate must get past another cloture vote, which means we have a continued fight ahead.
Simple majority on final passage, but they have to shut off debate with 60 again w conf report. Earlier post is wrong on this.
Something is very, very rotten in the District of Columbia.
Nelson votes to kill the babies for Obama.
God have mercy on us.
If all Nelson wanted was for abortion funding to be taken out of the bill.. Why did he get free Medicaid for Eternity?
I don’t think the law considers this bribery - I don’t know that for a fact - I think that this would - and I am not trying to be cynical - be considered to be within their discretion to cast a vote according to their conscience. I think there is a constitutional issue - one state being afforded greater rights than others - I don’t believe that will fly - but I have not seen anything on this yet - but it will become a major topic in the days to come.
I just pray that this farce will be ended soon - we have to get rid of the present majority in congress - and I hope we replace them with principled constitutionalists - neither party impresses me at the moment - the greater ungood is definitely the dems - I just wish the repubs would strongly stand for something. They are getting better - but it seems that there is no cure for Potomac fever.
First he thought they were cheering his Communist tirade, then it occurs to him that they are against him. This MASSIVE crowd. The look on that buzzards face, when he starts telling the serfs in Romanian to "shut up" and they just keep it up.
......The look on that buzzards face, when he starts telling the serfs in Romanian to “shut up” and they just keep it up.....
In my mind, that event is filed as “the Ceaucescu moment”
I am anxiously waiting to see it in America and on the face of the messiah
Indeed. Sic semper tyrannis.
I hate the idea of no more Omaha Steaks, but...
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