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Ex-Democratic Leader Harry Reid, who retired last year, was just fingered.....trying to help Sen Menendez in his efforts to derail a federal Medicare probe of Menendez's pal, eye doctor Melgen (currently in jail).
Harry loves that Medicare money. Here's how he handed $4.3 billion tax dollars.......attached to a Medicare bill ......to get then-Louisiana Sen Mary Landrieu's vote. Yet another indictment of the Obamacare atrocity.
The payoff to Landrieu should be investigated as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare.
BACKSTORY In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass the Affordable Care Act. Reid needed every Dim on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage.
In Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars. Obama complied--- Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare---but $4.3 went to Landrieu not the $200,000 she had bargained for.
<><> Was Mary the baglady for buying the other senators aye votes?
THE LANDRIEU PAPER TRAIL IS HUGE Landrieu sold her aye vote for a "price." Landrieu was bought off in what Forbes Magazine dubbed "The 'Louisiana Purchase" that included a massive $4.3 Billion to Landrieu.
FORBES REPORTED the Democrats’ nailed Landrieu’s support for Obamacare w/ a greenback bribe. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for some $200 million more additional federal funds for Louisiana. Except that, due to a drafting error, the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion attached to a Medicare bill: more than twenty times the assigned amount.
MORE HERE http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
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