If this HealthCare Bill is so heroic and amazing answer me this:
Why do 60% + of US citizens oppose it?
Why did the US Senate pass it in the middle of the night?
Why was it completely partisan? Not one Republican senator voted for it.
Why, in order to get all 60 Dem senators to vote for it, did they have to buy them off with favors? Refer to list below:
*Senator Ben Nelson got an unprecedented deal to force federal taxpayers to pick up 100% of the cost of Nebraska's Medicaid expansion--forever.
*Connecticut's Senator, Christopher Dodd, got a $100 million earmark for a hospital at the University of Connecticut.
*Vermont Senators Pat Leahy and Bernie Sanders, who had been threatening to oppose the bill from the Left, got an extra $250 million in Medicaid funding.
*In Florida, Senator Bill Nelson got three counties carved out of Medicare Advantage cuts that will happen everywhere else in the country.
*Of course we know about the "Louisiana Purchase" where Reid and Obama paid $300 million of our taxpayer dollars to the pet projects of Senator Landrieu to secure her vote.
Good luck in 2010 Dirtbags.
