Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson (artist’s rendering)
Remember the Cornhusker kickback to get Senator Ben Nelson to turn his back on his allegedly pro-life principles and vote for the Senate health care bill? Apparently that’s been stripped out (from the WaPo):
Bye bye, Cornhusker Kickback. Hello, special treatment for Tennessee and North Dakota.
Democrats unveiling revisions Thursday to their health care overhaul bill decided to kill the extra $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska that has become a symbol of backdoor deal making.
But the 153 pages of changes to the massive health care package include extra money for hospitals in Tennessee that serve large numbers of low-income patients. And though the bill would revamp the nation’s student loan system to make the government the only lender, one bank – the state-owned Bank of North Dakota – would be allowed to continue making student loans.
That provision ended up rubbing Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., the wrong way. Fearing it would become a target by Republicans in what he said is “an overly heated partisan environment,” he asked the House late Thursday to remove it from the legislation.
In the words of Jammie Wearing Fool:
How stupid must Ben Nelson feel tonight? He sold his soul in return for a kickback, he’s reviled in his own state and will likely never again be elected, and now his bribe has been removed from the hot mess that is the healthcare bill.
Slick move, Ben.
Is there no honor among thiev… er. legislato… er… thieves? Maybe Sen. Nelson can get a do over — like an alleged mother can do for a botched abortion under Obamacare? When the going gets tough, Senator Nelson’s principles are about as safe as that baby.
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Kickback is right…Nelson’s gonna get a kick in the backside from the voters. (See what I did there?)
Hope Kentucky gets one from Wake Forest come Saturday…liar and cheat that he is,John Caliperi would have a rosy future in politics.
Karma
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t our lives, and our progenies’ futures they were playing with. What a bunch of fools.
It’s a good rule in life to remember that, when you sell your soul, you’re doing business with the kind of people who buy and sell souls.
Benny can always go to work for Heidi Fliess at her all Male Bordello in Nevada. I hear she is looking for more workers….
The cornholer kickback is out, but dozens of others we have already heard about and a whole bunch of new ones are in. The list of Democrats who didn’t get a kickback will be a lot shorter than the list of those who did. Do they care? Do they care that the public knows about it? Hell no …
To paraphrase a line in ‘Frost/Nixon’ …
“if the Democrats do it, it’s not illegal …”