Ever heard the old joke about the man who sits down in a bar next to a beautiful woman?
He turns to her and says, “Hypothetically speaking, would you have sex with me for a million dollars?” She thinks about it for a moment and then says, “You seem like a nice guy. So sure. I’d have sex with you for a million dollars.” “OK,” he says, “would you have sex with me for $20?” The woman is shocked, incensed, irate. “Twenty dollars,” she screams, “do you think I’m some kind of whore?” “We’ve already established that,” he replies, “now we’re just haggling about the price.”
Take that story, change “woman” to “Democrat” and change “man” to “Nancy Pelosi” and this story makes complete sense.
Here’s how Politico.com reports it:
Three House Democratic leaders who were whipping members on the climate change bill gave tens of thousands in campaign cash to party moderates around the time of the 219-212 vote on June 26, according to Federal Election Commission records.
It’s impossible to tell if that torrent of cash was an attempt to schmear wavering Democrats — or just part of the usual cash dump made by leaders on the eve of the June 30 quarterly fundraising deadline.
Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) doled out $28,000 to reps who eventually voted yes on June 24, two days before the big vote — on a day when House leaders were doing some heavy-duty arm-twisting.
Clyburn recipients who voted for the bill included a who’s-who of battleground district Dems: Steve Driehaus, D-OH ($2,000); Martin Heinrich, D-NM ($2,000); Suzanne Kosmas, D-Fla. ($4,000); Betsy Markey, D-Colo. ($2,000); Carol Shea-Porter, D-NH ($2,000), Baron Hill, D-Ind. ($2,000); Alan Grayson, D-Fla. ($2,000); Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa ($2,000); Jim Himes, D-Conn. ($2,000); Mary Jo Kilroy, D-OH ($2,000); Kurt Schrader, D-Ore. ($2,000); Jerry McNerney, D-Calif. ($2,000) and Tom Perriello, D-Va. ($2,000).
Ronald Reagan said “Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
Reagan nailed it (if you’ll pardon the expression), because it appears that Democrat members of congress will sell their votes for a mere $2000.
For god’s sake, man, the whores in congress should be embarrassed. Even Ashley Dupré charged Elliot Spitzer more for an hour of sex than a congressman charges for his vote.
But either way, it’s the voters who end up getting screwed.
Source: Politico.com
