$300 million for Senator Landrieu, $100 million for Senator Dodd, unknown hundreds of millions for Senator Nelson. I am sure it will be at least $500 million to get them to sign the deal. Amazing.
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, responded Tuesday to widespread criticism that Democrats only garnered the 60 votes needed to defeat Republican stalling tactics on the health reform bill by catering to self-interest, saying Democrats are focusing on the big picture; "trying to cross a demarcation line."
Harkin dismissed deals dubbed vote-buying by GOP senators as "small stuff" that distracted Americans from the primary focus of the overhaul bill.
"We have to keep our eyes on what we're trying to do here. We're trying to cross a demarcation line," Harkin told "Early Show" co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez. "On one side is health care as a privilege, on the other side is health care as a right. With these votes, with the vote that we'll take before Christmas, we will cross that line finally and say that health care is a right of all Americans."
December 22, 2009, CBS News.
Just the usual business with an administration that promised change - to not do things like the previous administration, to be open, and up front. Except when they don't want to be.
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