You know that one will cave due to the “offer that can't be refused”. Let all 216 of these Dems be tied to this monstrosity of a health bill by the lashings of their votes and go down into a bottomless abyss.
You know that one will cave due to the “offer that can't be refused”.
When the debate on the Medicare prescription drug bill ended, Hastert called for a 15-minute vote. When the time was nearly up, he was some votes short. There were about 5 hold-outs. The vote period got extended. And extended. And extended.
The 15-minute vote ran for almost 3 hours and finally ended about 4:00 a.m. The backroom arm-twisting must have been painful. But Hastert emerged with enough votes plus a couple of extra ones to pass the bill.
No one, that I read about, ever admitted to what their pay-off was, nor whether medical attention and splints/casts were needed for the twisted elbows.