IOKIYAR

[babylonsister]

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Quote of the Day
Posted by Joe Klein Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 11:03 am


Karl Rove on the Medicare Part D vote:

The House finally voted between 3 am and 5:55 am on the morning of November 22 <2003>. The tally at first stalled out at 216 to 218 against us. House leaders kept the vote open and , using the kind of horse-trading that has always been part of politics, flipped enough members to arrive at 220 to 215 for the Medicare overhaul.

--page 373, Courage and Consequence

It should be noted that the Medicare Part D legislation was an unpaid for entitlement that will cost taxpayers an estimated $7 Trillion this century. But when Rove, and other Republicans, send up the sort of smokescreen about the legislative process being manipulated by Democrats, it is good to remember that one noted political genius described the process as "the kind of horse-trading that has always been part of politics"...and this time, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the new entitlement will be paid for.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. but....but....but... as you so eloquently put it..IOKIYAR!!!!!!!!!

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

They are such outright, arrogant liars!!! And the media so rarely calls them on it...

[rufus dog]

2. You actually have a twofer in that quote

Hmmm, November 22, 2003, sounds really close to Thanksgiving, using our friendly google, it was Saturday morning before the Thanksgiving recess. What was the hurry? Why couldn't they recess for Thanksgiving and come back and vote? Why were they trying to ram it through?