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The Demcare bribe list, Pt. III;
{{{ Update: Late-night }}}
wheeling and dealing into the midnight hour; Stupak press conference 11am Saturday By Michelle Malkin

Scroll for updates…late Friday night wheeling and dealing at Pelosi’s office…see Robert Costa’s reporting…Plus: Stupak’s stupefying negotiations…

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Here we go again. Time for another Let’s Make a Deal Watch in the Era of Hope of Change. As GOP Rep. Paul Ryan noted the other day at the House Budget Committee wreckonciliation shell hearing: “We are not governing here today, we are greasing the skids.”

Now, here’s my rundown on the latest bribes and payoffs. GOP Sen. Tom Coburn is also on high alert. You keep watch, too, and send your additions:

*Nebraska’s Hospital Helper. Via Rowan Scarborough at the Washington Times

Deny, deny, deny.

*Tennessee’s Hospital Helper. Via the Tennessean

Deny, deny, deny.

Tom Bevan notes the irony of Gordon’s little deal and a NASA slot rumor.

*North Dakota’s Student Loan Loophole. With a sick stomach, Scott Johnson at Power Line reports

*The La Raza Lollilop. Open-borders congressional reps made a show of protesting the phony immigration enforcement provisions in Demcare. But purported opponents of the bill led by Illinois Democrat Rep. Luis Guiterrez are falling in line. Just as the congressional Hispanic Caucus announced it support of Demcare, Obama announced his vow of support for their new shamnesty push.

All they needed was a cheap and easy promise from Obama. Chumps.

*Water Wheeling & Dealing. IBD editorializes today

Update: Well, I never thought I’d encourage you to go to Firedoglake, but there is some must-read reporting on the late-night negotiations over the abortion funding issue. And it isn’t good:
{{{ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made a deal with Rep. Bart Stupak in order to secure his vote }}}
Allahpundit tries to decipher the deal and wonders:
Exit question: Is this all just lefty spin being fed to Firedoglake by peeved pro-choicers? We’ll find out at Stupak’s presser tomorrow. ((( 11 a.m.! EST )))

Meanwhile, The Corner’s Robert Costa has fresh reports on late-night arm-twisting at Pelosi’s office

UPDATE: Tense times at the Capitol. Democrats are being called into the Speaker’s office at the eleventh hour for negotiations. Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D., Pa.) just arrived at 10:20 P.M. Regional Medicare reimbursement disparities appears to be the issue. Staffers are on their cell phones, telling their bosses to hustle in. Twice in the last 20 minutes, Speaker Pelosi has come into the lobby herself, looking for (maybe) arriving members. It’s now 10:30 P.M.

In the midnight hour, they cried more, more more…

To read Details:

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/19/the-demcare-bribe-list-pt-iii/