Schwarzenegger: Congress ‘buying’ votes for health care reform
Published: January 9, 2010
Updated 2 months ago
Members of Congress have been “buying” votes for health care reform, claimed California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an interview to be aired Sunday.
Talking with David Gregory on NBC News’ Meet the Press, Schwarzenegger said the pivotal 60th vote needed for Senate Democrats to pass health care reform was gained by promising Sen. Nelson (D-Nebraska) federal funding to cover Nebraska’s entire cost of a Medicaid expansion included in the bill.
Schwarzenegger told Meet the Press host David Gregory this was tantamount to saying “I’m holding out my vote, unless I get some extra kind of benefits here.” The governor went on: “I mean if you do that in Sacramento, you know, you’ll be sued. It is illegal to do that, to buy votes.”
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Generally politics is highly regulated corruption, but Washington politics is open corruption hardly regulated by politics
California was set up by the GOP and the Terminator has been our worse Govenor. He helped with Enron and has robbed us blind. Now he knows about bribes as that’s what he’s been doing all along. We could have gotten out of debt with taxes to shipper on our docks. But Sarah Palin told him to allow the tax because it would hurt her State and you betcha Arnie obeyed Sarah. Arnie can’t speak English and for every crime he says he’s learning. His wife disobeys the law and he laughs. He walks around with no underwear on exposing himself and thinks it’s funny. I have notice President Obama is wise to Arnie’s corruption and will not allow him in any job. Even Maria Kennedy asked for a job for her husband because she can’t borrow from the Kennedy’s anymore. We are suffering from the mistake of putting that idiot in office. If you ever meet Arnie do yourself a favor don’t shake his hand or even get to close to him, he’s so dirty there is medican that can cure what you pick up.
It may be illegal for me or you to buy votes, but there is a whole industry on K street were the ultimate aim is to buy votes in congress. There is a congressman in Texas who said after he retired, that shaking down K street for money and jobs was one of his proudest achievements.