They both oppose a robust public option in health care.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/10/conrad-to-health-care-ref_n_213918.html Conrad To Health Care Reformers: You Don't Have A Vote
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said Wednesday that he is "frankly not terribly interested" in what the major health care reform coalition thinks and is pushing ahead with a proposal the group rejects.
"I am unaware that HCAN has any votes on the floor of the United States Senate," said Conrad when told that the coalition Health Care for America Now opposed his plan to create regional health care co-ops instead of allowing consumers to have access to a public plan option.
"They have no votes on the floor of the United States Senate. And I am dealing with votes in the finance committee and the floor of the United States Senate. I am frankly not terribly interested in what these myriad groups all think. I am interested in what people who vote think," he said, flailing his arms and knocking a Politico reporter's recorder to the marble floor.
"I don't even respond to that kind of thing. I think it is just chatter. What matters is results, legislative results at the end of the day," he said.
Now they're both in trouble for accepting, and lying about, "sweetheart" loans.
Anybody suspect that somebody's playing hardball with them?
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