Posted on 12/15/2009 5:16:08 PM PST by malkee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- On a day when Democrats emerged triumphantly from a meeting with President Barack Obama appearing to have won the vote of Joe Lieberman for their pro-abortion health care bill, they may not be ready to celebrate yet. The Lieberman vote appeared to allow Democrats and Obama to secure 59 votes.
The only holdout left appeared to be pro-life Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska who says he won't vote for the bill because it funds abortions.
Political observers need to hang on to their hats because pro-abortion Sen. Rolland Burris of Illinois, ironically the lawmakers appointed to take Obama's seat until the next election, may throw the Senate for a loop.
Burris says that now that the public option has been emaciated to get Lieberman's support, he may very well vote no on the bill.
The black Democrat is beholden to no one and is already something of a rebel because Senate Democrats didn't want him to be in the chamber after he was named by embattled pro-abortion Gov. Rod Blagojevich to replace Obama.
I am committed to voting for a bill that achieves the goals of a public option: competition, cost savings and accountability, he said Monday night on the Senate floor. I will not be able to vote for lesser legislation that ignores those fundamentals.
Yeah, he’s not running.
BUT, for the first time since his sorry A$$ went to Washington, he has real power in his hands. They need his vote. They took it for granted. They dissed him. He’s not only putting his thumb in their eyes, which he is doing, but he’s also floating a trial baloon to see if he just couldn’t force the Machine to get hisself reelected.
Probably won’t work, but if you have even the slightest idea of how vain this guy is (already engraved his tombsone with all his accomplishments), you’d realize that he may think it just might work and that he’ll never hold this much power in his ambitious little fingers again. So why not see how much he can get for it?
Ya right. He’s a good little Marxist and he will do as he’s told.
This is simply another version of the “Chicago way” — when you are not threatening and coercing people, or bribing them yourself, hold our your “vote” or influence until the price is right.
Burris saw what Landrieu got and knows HE can be very well taken care of in his post-Senate life, given the huge sums of money at stake.
He wants a Barry deal where he does not lose his seat.....
Show me the money!
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