Virginia’s Dynamic Duo
This analysis by National Review Online of Harry Reid’s health-care bill reveals sweetheart deals for a number of states represented by Democrat Senators. These states include Nebraska (Nelson), Michigan (Levin and Stabenow), Vermont (Leahy and Sanders), Louisiana (Landrieu), Massachusetts (Kerry and Kirk), New York (Schumer and Gillbrand), Pennsylvania (Casey and Specter), Florida (Nelson), Hawaii (Inouye and Akaka), Montana (Baucus and Tester), North Dakota (Dorgan and Conrad), and South Dakota (Johnson).
Notably absent from the list of states whose Democrat Senators secured valuable federal aid in exchange for their support of this massive new entitlement is the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Within the past three years, Virginians have elected rookie legislators Jim Webb and Mark Warner to the United States Senate. Both men pledged to Virginians that they would vote as moderates, with Warner even terming himself a “radical centrist.” Instead, Virginians now come to find out that the voices they have chosen to represent them may indeed be radical, but they are definitely not centrist.
Sens. Warner and Webb have achieved complete failure in giving Virginia any influence whatsoever in this massive restructuring of the American economy. Further, they have shown an apparent lack of interest in helping the Commonwealth of Virginia deal with the expansive new tax and regulatory burdens of this legislation. By extension, they are on the verge of forcing Virginians to subsidize health care in numerous other states like Nebraska, without receiving anything in return.
For these achievements and for their willingness to support whatever legislation Harry Reid asked them to, they are truly deserving of being dubbed the Harry and Lloyd of the United States Senate.
I urge all Virginians to contact the Senate Offices of Jim Webb (202-224-4024) and Mark Warner (202-224-2023) and demand that they vote in the interests of the Virginians who elected them by voting AGAINST final passage of this boondoggle of a bill.
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So, you’re upset that Warner and Webb didn’t feign resistance in an effort to add pork to the health care reform bill?
I take it that he is upset that if they were going to support it anyway that they were too stupid to get something out of it. He would rather they not support it at all.
Hey Warner and Webb. There’s still this little WORST RECESSION IN A GENERATION going on. People are unemployed, underemployed and hurting.
At Christmas, you’ll be able to come home and say “You still don’t have a job, but you have to buy health insurance, and maybe you’ll qualify for a subsidy. We’re raising taxes to pay for it. But you still don’t have a job. And I’m a centrist.”
Pathetic.
Actually Brian, what is pathetic is the republican minority in the Senate using cloture to thwart the will of the majority. It is the republican Senators who have given power to democrats to force changes in the bill and to add benefits for their states. Had the party simply acknowledged that the Democrats has the votes, they could have actually empowered their party to act constructively to improve the Bill for all Americans. But no, the playbook now says to do all in the power of the minority to make our President look weak and ineffective. That is an all or nothing tactic that may benedit the republicans yet hurt our nation. What else is new from the party of No.
Mike, you really need to stop drinking in the morning.
Who thwarted anything? The Senate rules are the Senate rules. It’s supposed stop, or at least slow down, tyranny.
Obviously from what you’ve written over the years, you have a problem with that.
Actually Brian, last time I checked, health care coverage for all, coverage in the face of pre existing conditions, respect for the doctor patient relationship, and cost containment through competition and negotiation, were not included in the definition of tyranny.
Like you’d recognize it.