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Dem Jack Boots on Steroids
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'It's
not a special deal,'' Ben Nelson told the New York Times of the special
deal that converted him into the 60th Senator for ObamaCare. "It's a
fair deal. Some people said I was getting money for Nebraska. That's
wrong. I was just getting rid of an underfunded federal mandate.
There's nothing sleazy about it. I cracked the door open for other
states."
The other states think somewhat less of Mr. Nelson's benevolence. Under
the "Cornhusker Kickback," the federal government will pay all of
Nebraska's new Medicaid costs forever, while taxpayers in the other 49
states will see their budgets explode as this safety-net program for
the poor is expanded to one out of every five Americans.
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Whatever
comes of this, I think it's fair to say that Ben Nelson is in his last
term as a senator from Nebraska. There are compelling points
being made as well.
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The 12 Attorneys General are all Republicans, but as it happens their
complaints are echoed by the liberal states of New York and California.
"In addition to violating the most basic and universally held notions
of what is fair and just," the AGs wrote last week to the Democratic
leadership, the Article I spending clause is limited to "general
Welfare." If Congress claims to be legitimately serving that interest
by expanding the joint state-federal Medicaid program, then why is it
relieving just one state of a mandate that otherwise applies to all
states? -- Full
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Also bringing heat - C-Span, which is normally a docile Lamb when it comes to pushing congressional leaders, surprised me with: C-SPAN Challenges Congress to Open Health Care Talks to TV Coverage My "kamikaze" analogy to Dem
leaders is certainly apt. "We may be going down in flames, but we're
taking the country with us." Wait! That's more Hitlarian than Divine Wind, ain't it?
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