Buying Votes With Water

Investors.com ^ | March 18, 2010 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

Politics: The water spigots are back on, at least temporarily, in California's Central Valley. Turned off to protect a tiny fish, they happen to be in the districts of two congressmen "undecided" on health care reform.

One could chalk it up to good fortune or just good constituent service. But in the middle of a contentious health care debate marked by Cornhusker Kickbacks and Louisiana Purchases, we may be forgiven if we find an announcement by the Department of the Interior regarding California's water supply a tad too coincidental.

On Tuesday, the Department of the Interior announced it was increasing water allocations for the Central Valley of California, a region that depends on these water allocations for local agriculture and jobs. The timing adds to our suspicions.

According to the Interior announcement, "Typically (the Bureau of) Reclamation would release the March allocation update around March 22nd, but moved up the announcement at the urging of Senators (Diane) Feinstein and (Barbara) Boxer, and Congressmen (Jim) Costa and (Dennis) Cardoza."

Blue Dog Democrats Costa, who represents California's 20th Congressional District (Fresno), and Cardoza, who represents the 18th (Stockton to Modesto), are both listed as "undecided" in the upcoming vote on health care reform, whether it be on the Senate bill itself or the "deem and pass" resolution known as the Slaughter rule, after Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter.

The rule subverts the Constitution by allowing the bill to pass without members actually having to vote on it. Interior's announcement gives Costa and Cardoza something to assuage the wrath of angry constituents just in time for any vote. They chose what was behind door number one.

[giotto]

So they've gone from bribery to extortion. It's extortion, because those farmers NEED that water to farm. Water is not a luxury. It's not like being offered a ride on Air Force One, or a trip to the Bahamas, or a nice fat payoff. It's literally food on the table for starving farm workers.

Apparently there is no lowest depth to which the Democrats will sink.

[afnamvet]

The environuts may sleep with the fishies.

[Army Air Corps]

Also part of the reasoning behing Barry’s proposed land grab.

[Army Air Corps]

behing = behind

[devistate one four]

Farmgate conspiracy!

[cripplecreek]

Obozo’s great lakes Czar has a history with the alliance for the great lakes and they have some pretty extreme views. Remove all the dams, all signs of human habitation within buffer zones, etc.

[Army Air Corps]

Gads, there is a Great Lakes Czar?! Yeesh. What next, Barry's pizza delivery guy becomes the Pepperoni Czar?

[Army Air Corps]

Ah, another hardcore “Greenie” who is actually red.

[IrishCatholic]

bookmark.

[Clint Williams]

When are we going to see these crooks “frog-marched” to jail?

No sooner than you're to see them the way they ought to be: decorating the lampposts on the National Mall.

In other words: never.

America -- a great idea, didn't last.

[cripplecreek]

Cameron Davis is the former Chicago environmentalist Obama appointed as great lakes czar. Now I see he’s also the senior advisor to the EPA.

http://www.greatlakes.org/Page.aspx?pid=243

http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/glri/glrithx.html

[cripplecreek]

So can we still take the king’s deer?

[Army Air Corps]

THAT rabid environut is the “Great Lakes Czar”?! Yikes.

[cripplecreek]

Given the fact that he’s now the senior advisor to the EPA, I guess we could call him the earth czar or gaia czar. In fact, I don’t doubt his fingerprints are all over the water issue in California.

[highlander_UW]

If CA had any rational people remaining they'd revolt over the Fed Gov’t withholding water in order to influence votes. Pure criminal.

[Army Air Corps]

In a just world, he would be someone’s prison girlfriend for the rest of his skeevy life.

[texteacher]

“Being blackmailed with one’s own water. I loathe this criminal Administration.”

I do not understand how this situation can be tolerated. With the mere proposal of water being turned on with a correct vote...how can this not be taken to court? The courts should turn the water back on.
This is like warfare when a country would have food and water blockaded until they surrendered.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

[bamahead]

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[Army Air Corps]

Well, the congresscritters have declared war upon us.