Final Bribes Are Paid

The Senate has voted to move forward with debate on the US taxpayer opposed health socialization bill.

The final two bribes were paid to Mary Landrieu and Blanche Lincoln. We are not sure what the payoff to Lincoln was but we do know that Landrieu comes cheap. She sold herself out for a measly $100 million.

For all the drama, the result of the Saturday night showdown had been sealed a few hours earlier, when two final Democratic holdouts, Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, announced they would join in clearing the way for a full debate.

"It is clear to me that doing nothing is not an option," said Landrieu, who won $100 million in the legislation to help her state pay the costs of health care for the poor.

Lincoln, who faces a tough re-election next year, said the evening vote will "mark the beginning of consideration of this bill by the U.S. Senate, not the end."

Both stressed they were not committing in advance to vote for the bill that ultimately emerges from next month's debate.

You would think that if Bill Clinton could get several million of Marc Rich's stolen dollars for a pardon, then Landrieu should have been able to work her bribe up considerably higher. Typical government incompetence, they can't even be bribed correctly. We are talking about trillions of dollars that the unions and progressives will be stealing here. Gosh, it's not even his own money that Reid is bribing her with, it's money that he is planning to steal from the taxpayers of this country.

Lets hope that one of these two Senators, or Lieberman, change their vote on the cloture motion to end debate.

Then again, who trusts Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi or Obama. They have made their intentions clear. They will pass this. They do not care what the public thinks or desires. They are better than we are. They know what is best for us. They can run an economy representing trillions of individual transactions every day better than the people making the transactions. They are super geniuses, although none has every held a job that requires results. How the least accomplished individuals in this country end up in power is just mind boggling. Not one of these individuals knows the first thing about how economics works. I doubt that have any background in or understanding of numbers. How could they? Everything they do is like someone telling us that two plus two equals ten.