I don’t know about anyone else, but I am mad. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) got $300,000,000 for her vote on health care and my Senator, Sherrod Brown (D-OH), gave his away for free. She was happy to get $100,000,000 and then got 3 times what was promised. What is wrong with our Senator that he couldn’t live up to the political tradition of selling his vote like she did?
A bribe is defined as: persuade somebody with enticement (to give somebody money or some other incentive to do something, especially something illegal or dishonest). Technically you can’t call it a bribe because he didn’t actually say ‘hey Mary, here is $300,000,000 if you vote for this’. Instead, our honorable representatives (sarcasm) placed an amendment on page 432 of the Senate Health Care bill that contains the nugget "certain states recovering from a major disaster." In order to qualify for this the state must have been declared a disaster area in the past 7 fiscal years. While Louisiana is not the only state that has had that declaration; notice the wording "certain states". At least we can say the Senate believes in transparency. The bribes are right there in the open for everyone to see. If this had been anyone else but a Senator, there would be criminal investigations.
Common Sherrod, what is wrong with you that you can’t seem to take $300,000,000 of taxpayer money and get it for Ohio?
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