Ben Nelson Becomes Latest Democrat Whore

When push comes to shove Democrats go for the money rather than their principles. Ben Nelson of Nebraska became the 60th vote for Harry Reid and the health care bill after hours of arm twisting and deals in a smoke filled room. Nelson did not get what he wanted with regard to abortion but he got some concessions for his state and the cost of Medicare which means the other 49 states will get cuts while subsidizing Nebraska.

Nelson became the latest Democrat whore who sold out and disregarded what his constituents want in order to side with Democrats in the Senate.

Ben Nelson signed his own political death warrant. He will not be reelected which might have been part of the deal to begin with. Nelson faces a 61%-26% deficit with regard to the number of people who will not vote for him if he votes for the bill. He will not be able to overcome this and he knows it.

Don’t be surprised to see Nelson announce that he is not running for reelection and then don’t be surprised to see him get a job in the administration. Maybe he will get appointed as some kind of czar or something.

Regardless, his seat will end up going to a Republican as will Dodd’s and Reid’s (and probably a few others). There will be no more stranglehold on government by the Commies and Socialists who are trying to ruin this country.

Be funny if all these guys stake their career on this and then lose only to have it all ruled as unconstitutional by the SCOTUS.

This issue is not about YOU. It is about making that child in the White House look like a leader. The bill lacks the public option, the Medicare option and many other things that were removed to buy off votes. Even all the liberal morons who back the Democrats are calling for them to kill this bill.

The libs wanted to overhaul health care but most now believe the bill becomes a payoff to the insurance industry.

How ironic.

At least Nelson got to drop his drawers and bend over for the cause. The Chicago thugs got to him and he lacked the testicular fortitude to stand his ground. Nelson got his 30 pieces of silver, Landrieu got her 300 million pieces and Lieberman got something to get him back in the concentration camp. Maybe they promised to leave his wife alone or threatened to give him a shower, cowards . I can’t figure Lieberman out. They went against him and backed Lamont and they screw him every chance they get but he keeps getting back in line to get screwed..

Well, this will be fun over the next year or so. Obama has made big deals with pharma (a broken campaign promise) and now it appears as if he will screw them in the future. He screwed those who supported him by giving them a watered down health care bill.

Did you notice that they wheeled Senator Byrd in there in a snowstorm for his vote. I agree with Dick Morris that if he wants to be a Senator then he has to do the job but what kind of people would do this?

Been kind of tragic if he died from all of that just so they could get a vote they needed.

Then again, the Democrats don’t really care about people as long as they get what they want. look at how many will lose jobs next November.

I think Republicans will take back both Chambers of Congress.

We can thank people like Ben Nelson for that.

Sources:
Washington Post
Gateway Pundit

UPDATE: Ben Nelson will not be up for reeelction until 2012. He will go then or if we are lucky he will resign before then. Looks like I might be unfairly casting hookers in a bad light.

Big Dog

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Mary Landrieu; The 100 Million Dollar Whore

Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana was opposed to the Senate health care takeover plan. She said she had problems with it and that she could not vote for it. She said she was concerned about cost and the public option and all kinds of things. No doubt she was trying to impress upon the voters at home that she was a responsible person.

Well, Mary Landrieu laid down on the Senate bed and spread her legs wide open and became the 100 million dollar whore. The Democrats, in order to secure her vote, promised her at least 100 million of your tax dollars for her home state. The so called fiscally conscious Landrieu dropped her drawers and smiled.

Some folks in Louisiana might be happy that their Senator whored herself out while raping the taxpayer for more money but many folks are going to see exactly what she did and they are going to vote her out of office. The people of the country need to take a look at this and ask one simple question. If the bill is so wonderful then why did they have to spend 100 million dollars to buy Landrieu’s vote?

Now that the vote has been cast they will work on the bill to try and get something they can all agree on. Whatever they come up with America will be screwed and we won’t get 100 million dollars like Landrieu, we will get a multi-trillion dollar bill.

Americans have the best care in the world. No other nation has made the advances in medicine that we have and none of them have care that is anywhere near as good. We have issues that need to be fixed but we do not need a complete overhaul and we do not need government running it.

Barack Obama pushed this and his Democrats signed on to it. They are traitorous and should be tried for that crime and receive a punishment that is appropriate for traitors. Mary Landrieu will not need this health care plan because she is covered by her golden Congressional plan, at least until the people of Louisiana fire her.

Good thing for her that she has health care because she will need it to treat the STDs she is sure to have after becoming Barack Hussein “the long legged Mac Daddy” Obama’s street whore and selling herself to the Senate for 100 million dollars. Once a Democratic whore, always a Democratic whore.

Liberty took another hit today. How much longer can this go on before the people turn against government?

…to protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and Domestic.

These people are domestic enemies and should be treated as such. Vote them out of office.

Big Dog

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Why Government Can’t Run Health Care

The government is working on passing a health care takeover package that will cost upwards of $2.5 trillion over the actual first ten years of its life. They claim it will cost less than a trillion over ten years but they do that by counting ten from the passage and taxing people from the passage but only providing care four or five years after passage. They will get a four or five year head start on the money in order to pay for it. You cannot sustain a program where you have to tax for ten years to provide for five. The first ten years where actual health care is provided will cost at least 2.5 trillion dollars. They are using budget voodoo to fool the public.

The government claims it will save money by eliminating fraud in Medicare. If they could eliminate the fraud why have they not done it up to this point? How about they take a few years and eliminate the fraud and let us see the results before they try to get us on board with their health plan? The government has 98 billion dollars of fraud this year (and it is not over) with most of it being in Medicare.

Shouldn’t we expect them to have concern for this and to be addressing it with or without the reform they want?

Regardless of the costs, government cannot run the health care program because it will be a disaster. We already know that they cannot run Medicare and that it is rife with fraud. They have admitted that the fraud is there but they have done nothing to end it in the entire time it has existed. This is because government is wasteful and is not very good at oversight.

Case in point, Recovery.gov, the website that was designed solely to track the stimulus. It was supposed to be a transparent way for Americans to see how the money was being spent and how many jobs are being created. I know they claim to report jobs saved but that is a nonsensical item that cannot be tracked or quantified. There is no way to determine a “saved” job. I discount any saved job as a lie.

The government website is full of inaccuracies and probably lies. I say lies because all of the errors that have been caught were errors of over reporting. If there were mistakes one would expect that some of them would be under reporting. After the initial issues with the site the government spent 18 million dollars to revamp it. For 18 million dollars they should be able to buy a server farm with enough bandwidth to stream a concert to 1000 people and still have money left over to pay someone who knows how to be accurate when reporting. That seems like an awful lot of money for a website. Do they have the entire graduating class of MIT working on it?

The government could not get the website to work (which might mean they could not hide the lies well enough) so they spent 18 million to make it better. It still is not working because they are reporting jobs created in districts that do not exist. The reports of jobs created are being shot down time and again by the likes of ABC news and the entire project has done nothing to instill confidence in the government’s ability. One would think that with the kind of money they spent and the talent they can hire they would get it right.

But they did not. So they did what government always does when a plan fails. They threw more money at it and it still failed.

If the government is unable to spend 787 billion dollars on a stimulus and track that money as well as the jobs created then how are they going to run health care? The stimulus program has fraud that has been reported, fraud they acknowledge is inherent in a program of this size. The size pales in comparison to the health care takeover so how much ineptitude and fraud will that have? I know that Obama and his party claim they will end the fraud but they have failed to do so thus far with Medicare and they could not stop it in the stimulus. I have read they are considering another stimulus. Like with the website, they will throw more money at a failed program.

Imagine the amount of fraud that will accompany their health care reform. The reform will be much larger than Medicare and it has billions in fraud. The reform is much larger than the stimulus and it has billions in fraud. How many billions of dollars in fraud will result from their health care takeover plan?

Government is not able to run a simple website that it spent a whopping $18 million on and it is unable to stop the fraud in Medicare. It is also unable to track recovery money accurately or to prevent fraud in that program.

What moron believes that government will do better with health care?

Fraud, Waste, and Abuse.

Those three words more accurately describe nearly all government programs. Why would any sane person put one sixth of our economy in their hands?

I encourage you to visit Recovery.Gov. You paid over 18 million for it, you own it, so you might as well use it.

But don’t believe anything you read there.

**I incorrectly stated that the website cost 18 Billion dollars when it was Million. Each occurrence was changed. Thanks to commenter Mike for pointing out the mistake.

Big Dog

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Patrick Kennedy Warns Of Violence

From the right, of course

Representative Patrick Kennedy, the last Kennedy in political office and son of the late Ted Kennedy, is warning about violence because of the anger over the out of control government. He actually said it was about the health care debate and the example he gave dealt with that issue, but like all politicians he misses the bigger point. The debate is about out of control government.

Kennedy warned of the potential violence and used a sign he saw at a protest. Ten thousand signs bearing the words “Bury ObamaCare with Kennedy” were distributed at a protest by a group that opposes abortion. Patrick is of the opinion that this is disgusting and could lead to violence. After all, as he reminds us, his family has seen its share of violence. His uncles were assassinated and his father killed a woman. Of course, the 9-12 protest had nearly a million people in attendance and none of them were arrested. None of them committed crime and they cleaned up their trash when they left. The law breaking typically takes place when the left is involved in a protest.

I have no problem with the slogan. Ted Kennedy was the champion of government run health care and he claims to have made it his life’s work. The slogan indicates that we should bury his dream with him because the concept is a bad one.

I know that Patrick and others from the left will likely disagree and that is their right. I would find it hypocritical for those who used Ted Kennedy’s death to try and pass this health care takeover plan to oppose those who mention his death in wishing its defeat. Remember, Kennedy was not even cold when the Democrats were discussing doing it for him and fulfilling a dream he did not live to see.

To be upset with a slogan after that shameless display is beyond the pale.

The good news in it all is that Ted Kennedy has now been sober for 4 weeks.

Of course, that is assuming they do not serve scotch in Hell.

As an aside, where was Patrick Kennedy when the violence and hatred was directed at George Bush?

Big Dog

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