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WASHINGTON -- Sometimes there is a fine ethical line between legislative maneuvering and bribery. At other times, that line is crossed by a speeding, honking tractor-trailer, with outlines of shapely women on mud flaps bouncing as it rumbles past.
Such was the case in the final hours of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's successful attempt to get cloture on health care reform. Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, the last Democratic holdout, was offered and accepted a permanent exemption from his state's share of Medicaid expansion, amounting to $100 million over 10 years.
Afterward, Reid was unapologetic. "You'll find," he said,...
Public Policy as Public Corruption
We deserve better as One Nation under God and we are the only ones that can take it back. These corrupt people that are now dictating our lives belong in another world or at least another country and we should accommodate them by getting rid of each and every one come 2010 and 2012 and this means the rotten smell of dictatorship that is illegally (show us the passports and other documents that show you leagal)residing in the White House.
For those of you that wanted change-you got it and we will not think less of you if you decide you want to change the...