Hey folks,
Happy Sunday. Welcome to the OPNTalk Blog, Big Sunday Edition. Glad you made it. That's right, the Governator himself, is pretty ticked off.In an interview airing Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, Schwarzenegger says giving extra Medicaid benefits to Nebraska to secure Nelson's vote, critical to Senate passage of the measure, was "like buying a vote." In Sacramento, he says, "it is illegal to do that, to buy votes."
No Governor, it was not LIKE, it WAS buying Nelson's Vote, and YES, that is illegal. But none of what Obama is trying to do with Obamacare IS legal. It is ALL unconstitutional.Schwarzenegger was one of the few Republicans to express support for health care reform, but last week protested the deal that gave Nebraska more Medicaid money but not other states.
No. Arnold is no Republican. He is not even a RINO. But that doesn't matter. He is one hundred percent right on this one.
Nelson said he is asking the Democratic leadership to extend to all states the extra Medicaid money Nebraska would receive under the bill. The House and Senate are now negotiating the final version.
They can not afford to give EVERY State one hundred percent coverage. But then again, they can not afford to do any of what they are doing anyway.
Coming right up today?
Analysis Of Obama's Clean Energy Investment Speech
Hillary Backing Pelosi's "Chirica" Plan
Florida Healthy Kids
DLA for Sunday 011010
IWA For Sunday 011010
OH did you catch this? Reid is apologizing for being a Racist. Well, at least making a Racist remark. You know, one of those things that would be Front Page News, Lead Story on the Local
Evening News for two weeks, and would have the Rev.s calling for his head. If he were a Republican. Since it was Reid, like VP Biden and all his comments, Reid apologizes, and all will be forgotten. Hell, for some of you, this may be the only time you hear about it.WASHINGTON – Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid apologized on Saturday for saying the race of Barack Obama — whom he described as a "light skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one" — would help rather than hurt his eventual presidential bid.
{Laughing} Like the "First, Articulate, Clean Black guy?" They say that Obama accepted.
Obama quickly accepted, saying "As far as I am concerned, the book is closed." Reid, facing a tough re-election bid this year, spent the day telephoning civil rights leaders and fellow Democrats in hopes of mitigating the political damage.
Yet look at the picture. I'm not so sure.
Alright, just a heads up. The Hillary Backing Pelosi's "Chirica" Plan goes WAY long. Do not click the link unless you have a few minutes. My apologies to the reposters as well. I did not want to cut anything out of Hillary's Speech, ICPD's response, nor the history of "Chirica," so it ended up pretty lengthy.
Alright, going to fill my cup. Get your gogo juice and meet me right back here. I'll be right back.
Peter
Sources:
AP- Schwarzenegger says health care bill a 'rip-off'
AP- Reid to Obama: Sorry for 'no Negro dialect' remark
