...this is called a bribe.

What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

Here’s a case study.

On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.” 

The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.” 

I am told the section applies to exactly one state:  Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.

In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world:  Louisiana.  (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)

Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.

How much does it cost?  According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.

Where Reid and scumbag Democrats come from, this is just business as usual.

What's called business as usual?

Forcing through a more than 2000 page bill that includes a bribe for a Senator without whom it can't pass, imposes a 5 percent tax on those who make a choice to have cosmetic surgery (because obviously, anything that allows folks the freedom to make a choice must be taxed)  and imposes rules and regulations on the insurance industry that will eventually drive it out of business, eventually forcing those who can no longer get private insurance into a government controlled clusterfuck scheme.

And by the way, if you're African American and you don't support a corrupt government health care scheme, then you're obviously not really black.  So says race-baiting assclown Jesse Jackson. Take THAT, black conservatives! You can't be black unless you're a Marxist shitbag!