What a Disgrace

Evan Bayh of Indiana, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas are the types of politicians that give politicians a bad name.

The majority of people in the Congress who vote for left wing, ultra liberal, unconstitutional legislation are believers in the cause they support. When you hear them speak, they talk about those beliefs — sure they lie and spin and create all sorts of propaganda, but they are what they are. The people who vote them into office expect them to behave the way they do and everyone is happy.

These four Senators tell the people of Indiana, Louisiana, Nebraska, and Arkansas that they are of a different breed. They tell them they will be fiscally responsible and conservative. Then they go to Washington and march lock step with the likes of Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and Patrick Leahy.

The truth of the matter is that Saturday night anyone of these four could have voted no on the motion to proceed with debate, and in effect kill the Senate healthcare bill. But instead they all said: I do not like the bill, but we should debate it and see if we can change it into something that we can support, but we will not stand in the way and block the debate and amendment process.

The dirty little secret that many people do not understand is that in the Senate a bill requires 60 votes to move forward at this stage and 41 votes to stop it. Once the final bill is voted on it can pass with 50 votes and requires 51 votes to defeat it (the VP casts the deciding vote in the case of a tie). So all four of these Senators bought themselves time so that they can then vote against the final bill and still allow it to pass and then go back to their constituents and say that they voted against it.

This is a display of weasely politics at its best. The other disgraceful thing is that some of these people threatened to vote against the motion to proceed last week, and then after accepting political bribes they announced they would vote yes and thus keep the bill alive. Landrieu of Arkansas was bribed with 300 million dollars of Medicaid funding for her state. And thus 300 million people are sold out for a buck a piece.

Hence, they are a disgrace!