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The Louisiana Purchase

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 22nd, 2009 at 08:15 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Back in the old days, people would at least look ashamed when caught being bribed, but not Mary Landrieu. It’s being called the Louisiana Purchase. Senator Harry Reid put a provision on the health care plan that originally called for $100 million to be funneled to Louisiana exclusively.

Mary Landrieu refused to vote for cloture on the motion to proceed to the health care debate. Reid raised the offer to $300 million and Mary proved she wasn’t a cheap date after all — she took the increase, voted for cloture, and then bragged about the $300 million bribe.

In a statement sure to be repeated by Republicans endlessly over the coming weeks of Senate health care debate, the senator flaunted the inclusion of the provision. “I will correct something. It’s not $100 million, it’s $300 million, and I’m proud of it and will keep fighting for it,” Landrieu told reporters after her floor speech. “But that is not why I started this health care debate; I started this health care debate for all the reasons I just mentioned in my statement” on the floor.

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  • George Neitz

    That the esteemed Senator was in reality just a prostitute

  • muffin

    nt

  • banzaibob

    Senator Reid I’m sure it was all good and convinced Senator Landreiu she is living in Nevada where prostitution is legal.

  • http://uslibertyjournal.blogspot.com/ daezy

    in sheep’s clothing. They always vote with Obama, and are her constituents really fooled by all of this?

    Careful, vetted voting in 2010, if ACORN and SEIU don’t “cook the books”.

  • chbroussard

    ………..might as well just go stand out on some of the street corners in New Orleans where she’ll be with like-minded ladies.

  • izoneguy

    From:
    http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=11255

  • Scope

    and since this was added later, doesn’t it up the price tag?

  • muffin

    They are very good at creative accounting.

  • gekster

    Get the most money for thier district, and the hell with the cost to the rest of the nation.

  • burbmom

    by going to www.omaha.com and voting in their poll regarding Senator Nelson. He probably won’t even pay attention, but nice to see a the number against his vote yesterday going up!

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    how there is anyone in this county that doesn’t grasp that old Blue-Dog myth has been lonf dispelled amazes me. They are strictly CCINOs and PLINOs.

  • wennejunk

    “What kind of woman do you think I am”?

    “Madam, we’ve already established that, now we’re just haggling over the price”

  • Mayhem

    I’m just surprised she went for so cheap a price. Politicians used to have some self respect.

  • Lisa in Maryland

    As distasteful as that picture is, it says it all. At least they aren’t hiding it anymore. This is what it is all about. They want to get over 50% of the American people dependent on the government so they can buy their votes. Mary is really shameless in this.

  • mom2oneson

    How much does LA spend per year on it? I don’t know how it’s funded is it part state or part federal? ICUs cost thousands of dollars a day. I’m sure there are drug addicted mothers delivering premature babies staying for weeks in the NICU that medicaid pays for. How much is the total state’s spending on medicaid? That is just one example there are plenty of other costly things with medicaid but NICU patients are always high dollar accounts so I’m using that as an example of spending.

  • http://spendenforcer.com/ vortigernpendragon

    To make matters worse, she was bribed with our money.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LXojeOX69A

  • Jim Mullins

    does it take to hold $300 million cold, hard cash?

  • jeffreywturner

    Someone should tell her though, that since Obama will not be re-elected, he won’t be around to give her an appointment after she is defeated in her next campaign, so she better invest wisely while she still has a job.

  • gusso

    Tit for ‘dat on our dime.

  • saintgeorgegentile

    The original only cost 15M and we at least got something tangible out of it

  • nateleyswhore

    …is perfect, but unfortunately requires integrity and honesty from those who run it. This lowlife scamp just extorted $300 million from hardworking American people to allow another group of criminals to steal from us ad infinitum. Unbelievable.

  • E Pluribus Unum
  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    and with all the Mammography SPIN now going on to furhter deny RATIONING will be causing Health-Care to degrade NOT become better under Obamaocare. WOMEN BETTER HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE!!!!!

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    and with all the Mammography SPIN now going on to furhter deny RATIONING will be causing Health-Care to degrade NOT become better under Obamaocare. WOMEN BETTER HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE!!!!!

  • snowshooze

    Every vote should be worth at least 300 million.
    Just say no ’till you get the doe!
    We say no ’till we get the dough!
    We say no ’till we get the dough!!
    I can hear the chant already…lol

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    The Lame-Stream-Media is now trying to SPIN the whole Mammography recommendations questions as HAVING BEEN A WARNING about how PRIVATE HC PROVIDERS will drop coverages and ration – that the PUBLIC OPTION will be the savior of all women to protect their Mammographies standards of now, that they themselves have now brought into question! It is clear now, that it was/is all a ploy to further assign RATIONING FEARS to PRIVATE HC PROVIDERS and further demonize them and plead for the Public-Option BS.

    YOU WOMEN BETTER STAND UP AND NOT LET THIS SPIN STAND we do not want our Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Nieces, etc, to grow (potentially DIE) with higher risks to them because some uninformed folks fell prey to this moronic spin to pass Obamaocare.

    related: DieQuickly – Dems: ‘Rep plan: Die Quickly’ – counter to “Death Panels” – EPIC O-FAIL again — baseless Welfare Reform tactics repeat

  • http://www.barrypopik.com barrypopik

    FYI: See my comment on the diary “With Apologies to Winston Churchill.”

    It’s established what Senator Mary Landrieu is. She was just negotiating the price.

  • Rick_Caird

    Basically the “Landriau gambit” only addresses state government finances. It does not address federal taxes paid by people in La.

    So, I see two approaches. We have at least 10 states who are in deep fiscal difficulty, including Florida and California. I intend to ask Nelson (D, Fl) why we are not getting Medicaid help, too. Is he just too stupid to actually demand it? If so, then he just isn’t the Senator we need.

    Second, I would point out to Landrieu the tax burden on her state and how that would effect employment in that very poor state. What do her people think about that?

    Rick.

  • mschmitt
  • lightfootletters

    I’m always bewildered when others are suprised when politicians act like politicians.

  • dclamage

    Accepting bribes is illegal.

    Unless it’s from Harry Reid done with our tax money?

    Vote the bums out!

  • larryp

    Say…maybe Mississippi qualifies forthese funds. All the labyrhinthine language about “flooded this” and “overflowed that” and “declared federal emergencies
    zone over there” could well apply to Miss. They should sue to snatch the money based on interpertation of the statute. and leave ol Mary Landdrieu ‘hi and dry’,heh heh.

  • nutz2u2

    Do you think there’s a possibility Harry Reid may have gotten something other than Mary’s vote with our money? Joe Conforte would’ve liked Mary. He’d have made her madam at the Mustang Ranch.

  • jnoeagle

    “A political party cannot be all things to all people.
    It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
    Ronald Reagan”

    Your quote is directly to the point! What are their “fundamental beliefs” which are not compromised?

    Mary has shown us – more openly than Pelosi, Reid and Obama. Maybe she learned on the streets of the Big Easy, but the lesson plan is pure Chicago school.

    1. Honor is negotiable and available to the highest bidder.
    2. Public money is the best medium for controlling the public.
    3. Lying, cheating and stealing are simply pragmatic tools.

  • jnoeagle

    “A political party cannot be all things to all people.
    It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
    Ronald Reagan”

    Your quote is directly to the point! What are their “fundamental beliefs” which are not compromised?

    Mary has shown us – more openly than Pelosi, Reid and Obama. Maybe she learned on the streets of the Big Easy, but the lesson plan is pure Chicago school.

    1. Honor is negotiable and available to the highest bidder.
    2. Public money is the best medium for controlling the public.
    3. Lying, cheating and stealing are simply pragmatic tools.