What is a woman called who trades favors for money? Let’s look up the definition
Here’s a definition of ‘whore’ from Princeton
1) work as a prostitute
2) have unlawful sex with a whore
3) compromise oneself for money or other gains; “She whored herself to Hollywood“
4) prostitute: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
Now let’s examine one of the crucial votes the Democrats needed in the Senate over the weekend, in order to get the raping and pillaging of this country’s Middle Class started.
From the Washington ComPost, we have
“On the eve of Saturday’s showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn’t secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a sweetener: at least $100 million in extra federal money for her home state.”
Ok, so what they are really saying is that in order to get Landrieu to vote their way, she was going to have to have something to take to her constituents and say “Here’s what they offered if I voted you into involuntary servitude”.
“And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor midafternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote — and to trumpet the financial “fix” she had arranged for Louisiana. “I am not going to be defensive,” she declared. “And it’s not a $100 million fix. It’s a $300 million fix.”
Ok, so she was bought like a common streetwalker for $300 million. Ok, not quite so common for a hooker.
Let’s look at the next one, Lincoln from Arkansas.
“After Landrieu threw in her support (she asserted that the extra Medicaid funds were “not the reason” for her vote), the lone holdout in the 60-member Democratic caucus was Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas. Like other Democratic moderates who knew a single vote could kill the bill, she took a streetcar named Opportunism, transferred to one called Wavering and made off with concessions of her own. Indeed, the all-Saturday debate, which ended with an 8 p.m. vote, occurred only because Democratic leaders had yielded to her request for more time.
Even when she finally announced her support, at 2:30 in the afternoon, Lincoln made clear that she still planned to hold out for many more concessions in the debate that will consume the next month. “My decision to vote on the motion to proceed is not my last, nor only, chance to have an impact on health-care reform,” she announced. “
Once again, another politician has held out until she got what she wanted. Even though these are only two pronounced examples, you can bet there were many more that happened prior to Saturday’s vote. Because they weren’t the last couple of hold outs, they didn’t get the media exposure.
Another example was for Wyden of Oregon and for Nelson of Nebraska (the other late term holdout).
“Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) won a promise from Reid to support his plan to expand eligibility for health insurance. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) got Reid to jettison a provision stripping health insurers of their antitrust exemption.”
It’s funny how all the libs and the pro-health care reform idjits have been screaming about stripping the antitrust exemptions from the insurance companies, here’s an example of where the senator wanted it kept *in*. Remember, the antitrust exemptions are STATE laws, not federal laws.
In summary, listen to the Whore from Louisiana, this is not done yet. She still has not been paid enough and she admits it in public.
“But Landrieu had already made up her mind. She went to the floor during the lunch hour to say that she would vote to proceed with the debate — but that she’d be looking for much bigger concessions before she gives her blessing to a final version of the bill.
“My vote today,” she said in a soft Southern accent that masked the hard politics at play, “should in no way be construed by the supporters of this current framework as an indication of how I might vote as this debate comes to an end.” Among the concessions she’ll seek: more tax credits for small business and a removal of the version of the “public option” now in the bill. “
—> Gardie
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