Deal-making called corruption by Republicans when it's for people who can't afford insurance but

[JohnWxy]

when the Corporate Lobbyist party makes deals for Big OIl tax breaks, to protect Insurance company profits ("NO Public Option"), or Big-Pharma profits (prevented Medicare from negotiating bulk pricing deals for drugs used by Medicare recipients, Wall Street Bank revenues (slipped the "Commodities Futures Modernization Act in as rider to the Omnibus Spending bill 2000 - enabling Credit Default Swaps to be traded by Wall Street banks WITH NO MONITORING OR REGULATION by the Government - leading to the Deregulation Disaster of 2008 - initiating this Republican Dystopia we are now in) - THAT'S OKAY - WITH THE Corporate Lobbyist Party!!

Yes, in order to get even THIS very flawed Health-care bill (with no Public Option) passed the Dems had to "buy" the votes of the very "principled" Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson, two so-called moderate Dems (who are really fucking Republicans masquerading as human beings). How sickening it is that the Dems had to resort to this to get a highly compromised health care bill that still does have merit in terms of the public welfare (providing insurance to 31 milliion uninsured americans) in order to get the support needed from Republicans (masquerading as Dems) to to get it passed.


http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/12/21/despite_deal_on_health_republicans_vow_a_fight_to_the_finish/


but the GOP would have found this much more acceptable if it was in the interest of preserving and protecting corporate profits.

[bemildred]

1. Well, if anybody ought to recognize corruption when they see it, it's the Republicans.

The "money talks" party.