What's the Going Rate for a Senator's Vote?

$300,000,000, according to Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA). Sen. Landrieu had been one of three Democrat Senators who were waffling on whether to support Harry Reid's version of ObamaCare. Those three votes, if cast against the measure, would have killed the bill in the Senate. Not going to allow that, says Reid .....

Landrieu was promised $300,000,000 in healthcare aid for the state of Louisiana if she agreed to support the bill. Rather than being embarrassed about selling her vote, or trying to hide what she had done, she proudly stepped to the Senate floor and announced that she had gotten not the reported $100,000,000 for her state, but $300,000,000. Landrieu, facing a tough election next year, now gets to go home and tell all the poor people in Louisiana how much money she stole for them.

It used to be that deals like this were made in the back room, out of sight of the public. It says a lot about the arrogance of the left that they are not only doing this out in the open, but they're bragging about it.