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Harry’s Shameful Victory

Comparing him to LBJ is the best the apologists can do.

As the American public learns more about how Harry got his sixty votes, a revealing narrative has quietly emerged among the so-called progressives. First, they dismissed the Chicago-style political maneuvering as nothing more than standard congressional deal-making. Second, they applauded the creativity and ingenuity it took to promulgate this corruptive mess.

“Somewhere I hear the faint sound of Lyndon Johnson clapping,” wrote left-leaning Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, fawning over Harry “Houdini” Reid’s magically purchased votes. In response to the backroom political stink bombs that propelled Obamacare over the Senate finish line, Ms. Marcus relies on the timeless excuse for misconduct: denying the existence of a wrong simply because it has become commonplace. “This kind of political horse-trading has been around since the dawn of politics, if not the dawn of horses,” Marcus blithely opined. By invoking the master legislator LBJ, she dismisses these political payoffs as merely another day on Capitol Hill — no different from past legislative pursuits that involved some arm-twisting, palm-greasing, or soul-selling.

E.J. Dionne, another liberal Post columnist, in a rare hiccup of thoughtfulness, picked up on this obvious dichotomy:

When a writer admires a wheeler-dealer, he or she inevitably compares that politician to Lyndon B. Johnson and typically asks: Why can’t others be more like LBJ? When a writer wants to condemn exactly the same sort of horse-trading, LBJ recedes and some other metaphor — the popular one now is “Chicago-style politics” — is wielded to imply highly unprincipled behavior. With just a few keystrokes, shrewd pragmatism is transformed into terribly sinful activity.

The problem with Marcus and Dionne’s sardonic cheerleading (Dionne’s column was, after all, entitled “Two Cheers for Harry Reid”) is that Harry’s legislative stew is simply more odious than the nasty norm. While legislating has always involved a tinge of cajolery and unsavory quid pro quos, this toxic brew fails the metaphorical smell test in every important way.

Does it reflect the will of the people? Not even close. No matter which measurement one uses — polling the public at large, or by state — America rejected this bill. The week before its final passage, national polls like Quinnipiac (53% opposed to 36% favor), NBC News/Wall Street Journal (47% opposed to 32% favor), and CNN/Opinion Research (56% opposed to 42% favor), all showed double digit spreads opposing the legislation.

On a state-wide level, Harry Reid’s Nevadans opposed the bill 53% to 39%, while his personal approval rating hovers around 38%. Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s approval rating has taken a 15-point tumble since her vote was prompted by a $300 million Medicaid payoff. And Ben Nelson’s Nebraskans showed little appreciation for his Medicaid boondoggle, as only 17% of Nebraska voters approve of the deal their senator made, and 64% oppose the health care legislation overall. Together these characters bought and sold the public treasury and public trust in order to pass an unwanted policy. What shame.

This was a moment when transparency and the appearance of fair dealing were particularly necessary — not merely because of the legislation’s dramatic and weighty consequences, but because this is what the new administration promised. Americans, more concerned about spending than ever before, and fundamentally suspicious of nationalized health care, refused to look the other way. While deals where made behind closed doors, the public’s collective ear was up against them, intent on hearing all the dirty details.

Worse yet, the details may even be unconstitutional. Putting aside the constitutionality of mandating that citizens buy insurance, Ben Nelson’s infamous “Cornhusker Kickback” may pose a legitimate constitutional challenge. Attorneys General from seven states are already investigating whether making 49 states pony up for 100% of Nebraska’s Medicaid costs (in perpetuity) violates Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. This provision requires that, “All Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.” Making an exemption of this magnitude seems anything but “uniform.”

The Democrats and their cheerleaders must face an inconvenient reality. There is simply no historical precedent that can match the foulness of this congressional depravity. It is a distinction for which the culprits and its media abettors should be ashamed. Any legislative victory that has Lyndon Johnson offering a standing ovation can only mean the thuggish, corrupt forces of big government have prevailed. I, for one, would prefer to keep my seat.

topics:
Health Care, Harry Reid

About the Author

Kyle Stone is a practicing attorney in Chicago, Illinois, and is Membership Director of Chicago Young Republicans. He can be contacted at kstone@chicagoyrs.com.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (80) |

Fed Up| 1.4.10 @ 6:55AM

RICO laws need to apply to members of Congress now more than ever before. These people are not honorable representatives of the people, they comprise a protected group of pick pockets and liars.

Ret. Marine| 1.4.10 @ 7:43AM

"Dingy Harry" the name fits the suit very well. If it werent for the kick-backs, lies and decietful financial dealings from this so-called representative, he'd just be another crook looking from the inside wanting outside of a jail cell where he belongs. Doing the Peoples biding he say's, what People?.
I can only pray the We the People crowd drop this so-called representative like a bad habit come next election.

Bill| 1.4.10 @ 8:16AM

Ret. Marine, the only problem with Dingy Harry and the rest like him are working for lobby groups. These lobby groups and other special interest groups are who our elected representatives work for, not the people who elected them. This supposed health care benefit for the people resulted from stolen elections and bribes to others in congress. Seems to me there are people in jail for conduct such as this. Since they do not listen to the people and go their own way perhaps we the people need to conduct a selected national strike and starve the treasury of the funds they live on. Perhaps we the people need to take to the streets and march around the WH and halls of Congress. Time to take back our nation for the sake of those who have given their lives in the past and for the sake of our children and grand children. What shame have they brought on this great country!!!

Ret. Marine| 1.4.10 @ 8:44PM

I agree totaly Bill. What is needed is a group of Patriots to enter the White House, the legislative and House chamber and start investigations right from the git go. These fine examples of "so croocked they'll have to screw them into the ground when they are buried" bunch calling themselvs the peoples representatives and not just a disgrace to their oath, they wantenly violate it on a daily basis. I want to see the GOP start calling these bastards what they are TRAITORS to this Republic. Let them defend themselves as they made Palin, run them out of the millions they have recieved from the kickbacks and stolen from the Nations Treasury, that will be a good start. When they are convicted off to GITMO with their freinds they are so hell bound on defending.

Quid pro Quote| 1.4.10 @ 10:57PM

This is a quotation from Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887:

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

Acton was preceded by William Pitt the Elder, who voiced a similar thought in a House of Lords speech in 1770:

"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins."

Ken (Old Texican)| 1.4.10 @ 8:56AM

Folks,
I saw this on Fox news online.

Updated January 03, 2010
GOP Financial Struggles Jeopardize 2010 House Election Bids

FOXNews.com

The National Republican Congressional Committee, the financial arm for GOP House campaigns, has raised less than a third as much money as its Democratic counterpart and ended 2009 with barely enough money to fully finance a single House race, Politico reported Sunday.

I am wondering if many many conservatives have...like me...decided to contribute directly to the campaigns of guys we like...instead of to the Republican Party mix and match bullcorn.

Ret. Marine| 1.4.10 @ 8:47PM

Ken, you have the same idea, and are correct in this thinking, Myself also in the same mode. Screw them arseholes for thinking Conservatism means robbing Peter to Pay Paul. They get not a dime from me and mine.

Ray| 1.4.10 @ 10:57AM

So much for "Hope and Change." This administration, and the democrats in Congress, promised everyone that "politics as usual" was no longer going to be practiced, yet all we see from both is more of the same. Not only do they celebrate the fact that they haven't changed anything, they gleefully toss out names of past corrupt politicians in order to highlight just how much they haven't changed.

They've gotten so bad that they even use the name of their favorite bogyman, George W Bush, as an indication as to how much they haven't changed. One of the biggest argument the democrats make today is "Bush did this and you Conservatives never complained!," Am I correct? Hay, idiots, you spent 8 year telling us that Bush was doing the wrong things and you were going to change that! Now you're telling us that, since Bush did it, it's ok for you to do even more of it as well? Just how is THAT "change?" Here's a clue: IT ISN'T CHANGE! It's Bush times a thousand!

Democrats, you're the very definition of Hypocrisy! You bash other people for doing what you do every day! Things you've been doing for decades! You even congratulate yourselves as to how your following in the footstep of your predecessors, even those you publicly admonished for their actions! Now you have the gall to tell us that you've changed? What a bunch of liars!

Richard Baker| 1.4.10 @ 11:32AM

If LBJ is the only talisman that can be referenced to Reid, remember that Johnson left the Presidency in disgrace. Is that what his supporters mean?

Liberal Reader| 1.4.10 @ 2:29PM

Johnson left the presidency in disgrace?

You're thinking of Nixon, Baker.

Johnson chose not to run again because he saw the hopelessness of the war in Vietnam (as did most other sentient beings by 1968). But it's not as though he resigned or was forced from office.

Mark Cornwell| 1.4.10 @ 2:53PM

Hopeless of his re-election you mean -- in light of Vietnam, the economic cost of the welfare state, massive overspending, the advent of inflation and disastrous economic conditions that ensued.

john jay| 1.4.10 @ 11:22PM

lbj escalated the war , he and the democratic congress produced the failure of the war,so in effect he was a disgraceful coward and resigned ,hey, dim wit liberal reader,in elections,when you decide not to re-up,you have resigned,unbelievable that you dont get this.

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Liberal Reader| 1.4.10 @ 2:33PM

Because of this legislation, it will be ILLEGAL to deny you coverage because of preexisting conditions.

It will be EASIER to transport insurance from one job to another.

It will be ILLEGAL for insurance companies to drop you if you get ill.

It will be ILLEGAL to charge more for women than for men, simply on the grounds that women can get pregnant. (For you pro-lifers, your beloved private insurance companies classify pregnancy as a "disease.")

It will be ILLEGAL for insurance companies to cap lifetime benefits. (This was the REAL death panel that conservatives ignored entirely.)

This bill is deeply flawed. There are huge problems with it. But by next year at this time, the average middle class family will be better off for it.

Donaldo| 1.4.10 @ 5:27PM

Liberal Reader, you're last paragraph is right on 2 out of 3. The bill is deeply (and profoundly and totally and irredeemably) flawed, there are HUGE problems with it, but the average middle class family will not be better off for it. The increase to Federal spending will be measured in trillions. Companies are incented to dump their health plans, since it's cheaper to pay the $750 penalty / tax. In addition, employers will not hire or will lay off lower income employees rather than pay the $3,000 annual penalty for lower-income families who elect to use the Federal subsidy. Additional taxes on "cadillac" plans (in many union contracts) and other taxes on insurance, drugs, and medical devices will be passed on to the consumer.

Better off? You, my friend, are either a fool or lying.

ben| 1.4.10 @ 5:39PM

Because of this legislation, your Health Care decisions will no longer be your decision, and will no longer be based on Health Care Needs but rather on Health Care costs. The Medicare Advisory Boards have the authority to grant or restrain you care based on the value they assign to your life vs the cost of the treatment (Comparative Effectiveness/Quality Adjusted Life Years) - The MAB's are the Death Panels that the Liberals want to institute to gain control over your lives.

Liberal Reader| 1.4.10 @ 7:52PM

Sounds to me like you guys get your information about the health care bill from Sarah Palin's facebook page. No offense to the former governor of Alaska, but there are better sources of facts and analysis.

Health insurance is an absurd boondoggle of the middle class in general: it always has been. Leftists have been trying to tell you this for about 100 years.

Still, the "moderates" insist we keep this marvelously dumb idea, and conservatives don't give a flying shit so long as their corporate masters are making millions.

Well, if we must have a private, for profit insurance system, it's got to be reformed so that middle class families can at least afford it. That is, so far as I can tell, what this baggy monster of a bill attempts to do.

Single payer would be wise, smart, efficient, beneficial, fair, and effective. Naturally, we're not going to try it. So we have to do the best we can with the crumbs from the table, as usual.

In the United States, socialism is only for the wealthy. The rest of you just need to try to make ends as best you can. And don't forget to listen to Glenn Beck tonight! You need your on-air fix of National Enquirer style blubbering!

Whatever you do, don't vote in your own economic interests! And when your corporate masters arrive, you damn well better have brought your kneepads.

Ret. Marine| 1.4.10 @ 8:35PM

You are missing the whole point of this Bill, you haven't read the fine print. The objective of this legilation is to wipe out the Capitalist Insurance Companys. Are you in favor with this and if so, and at what point do you suppose your libtard friends will stop, maybe your pension, your welfare check?, maybe your 401K, where does it stop? liberl reader.

ben| 1.4.10 @ 8:40PM

I get my information from various eye-witness accounts and studies researching the effectiveness of the reforms you are pushing through. The facts are clear, guaranteed issue, individual mandate and community ratings has led to higher costs, lower quality and less availability of Health Care in EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY OR STATE THAT HAS TRIED THEM. For you to disagree is simply wishful thinking. Where do you get your lack of information?
Your idiotic plan forces people to pay with the fuits of their labor for others' benefit-ie Slavery. You wish to force us all to follow your plan under the false claim of compassion.
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive"-CS Lewis.
We conservatives have never tried to force people to buy something they don't want, whether it be insurance as a whole or the specific coverages within, because we are governed by freedom and liberty for all. While every one of your liberal arguments begin with "If everyone just...". You liberals have no compassion, empathy or tolerance. You are driven by the greed to control others who disagree with you, through emotive acts of demonization rather than critical, rational, moral thought.
This health care fiasco was all predicated on Insurance costing so much people couldn't afford it. The reasons for this are simple - 1 State mandated coverage. These mandates raised costs for everyone choosing to buy insurance (at least we still got to choose) by forcing them to purchase coverages they may not want - ie SRS, Hair Transplants, Maternity, In Vitro etc. These added costs forced higher premiums on all. Those purchasing from smaller insurers driving them to the bigger corps who could defray the costs easier. These mandates created the Monopolies you are now railing against, yet you want to create more.
Lets look at how this works in other industries. The average Cable consumer receives over 100 channels but watches only 8. Does paying for 92+ channels you don't watch lower or raise the cost of purchasing cable? Of course it raises costs, but gov't diversity programming requirements force us to buy channels we may not want instead of letting us choose those we do. You may only want to watch CNN or MSNBC but your paying for FOX News whether you like it or not.
2- Medicare/Medicaid are already gov't run insurers who can't pay their full bills. They pay roughly 60% of the costs they incur throguh the force of gov't. The providers cannot recoup what they're owed from the fed so they pass those costs onto those of us purchasing private insurance. Health Care providers would go out of business if they didn't recoup the costs or if they didn't restrict the Medicare/Medicaid patients they admit. Try selling anything for less than the cost of producing it and see how long you stay in business.
Medicare/Medicaid deny care to a higher number of patients than ANY insurer, a higher percentage of patients in their care than ANY insurer and more than double the average of ALL insurers. Then to stop the insurers "rationing" you clammor for a single payer system to put us all under the even higher rationing of gov't care. At least with insurers we have the right to challenge their denials in court, or pay for the procedures ourselves, but we have neither of those options under gov't run plans.
There are other reasons health care costs are too high like Malpractice Insurance and Employer mandates, but you're not talking about reforming these either. It's the gov't regulations that caused these problems and you wish to enact more regulations to fix them - THAT IS INSANE. We have the best health care in the world but you want to tear it down to copy the lower quality, less available, more costly care of others. You think we can do what others have tried thousand's of times before but with different results than have ALWAYS occurred - that is the definition of insanity.
When you can come up with a plan that doesn't force peoples accomodation with your beliefs and isn't just more of the same old tired Comunist/Socialis/Fascist absurdity present it here and you'll get a fair hearing. Until then keep your blood soaked NAZI hands off my body.

explosion proof light | 11.25.10 @ 1:36AM

That's the way it went in the U.S. for decades. People in poor communities were convinced that the police and justice system didn't give a hang about crime in their neighborhoods.

SpiralArchitect| 1.4.10 @ 11:16PM

"Well, if we must have a private, for profit insurance system, it's got to be reformed so that middle class families can at least afford it. "

Your 'logic' comes straight out of the 12th c.

"...if we must" NO, we must not and it is not a mandate nor should it be. That is the wonder of free market ( likely something beyond your Keynesian Fiscal and Social-Economical scope ).

OK Liberal Crusader, where do we venture next?

All for the middle class; perhaps we could sell 15 trillion Che T-Shirts to pay for other things that need be " reformed... for the middle class"

Last I checked, Cars are very expensive for the middle class.
Houses! Food! Vacations! Boats! RV's ! Entertainment Centers!

Good to see you in town looking around, but, may I humbly suggest you search for a clue before your next rant.

Margie| 1.5.10 @ 12:16AM

Great post.
Indeed they are going to have to build many many jails to put all of us who will be arrested for not buying this "health Ins." as it is now, the economy is so bad and more of us going on unemployment because of the destroying of the private sector by Obama the fascist.. what will we have? Tent cities? The only ones working will be government workers? Like Liberal Reader.
Obama "care" indeed.
Change we can become homeless by.

Jo| 1.5.10 @ 6:58AM

"Health insurance is an absurd boondoggle of the middle class in general: it always has been. "
This is false on so many levels!
The only level that is important to me at this point is that I am and always have been middle class and I have always had health insurance. I have worked for other people and I have owned a business and I always had health insurance and it has never been a "boondoggle"! I am also in my seventies and have always managed to take care of myself and my finances without federal, state or local government assisting me. My spouse and I worked together for a total of 65 years and provided for our family and we both grew up with a work ethic. That's one thing that is lacking today. This attitude of the government fixing every facet of our lives is abhorent to me and most of my generation and it should be to everyone. I have had the will and the intelligence to make my way but this is being denied to our society and we are moving toward the destruction of our Republic. As for "corporate masters making millions" you need to go back to your playbook and see that those "masters" provided jobs that you could take or refuse, it was up to you, no government intervention. Now corporate America has become the whipping boy for all our ails. When I was a business owner, I was in it to make a profit. My employees worked for me because they wanted a wage. What's wrong with that? We once lived in a captialistic, free enterprise society but that is being taken away and now there are people in DC who want to make all of us slaves to a government that is doomed to fail. Destroy captialism and who is going to pay the bills? Why is that so hard to figure out?
As for "private, for profit insurance" what's wrong with that? If our legislators and the executive branch really wanted to reform health care, they would start with tort reform and allowing us to purchase health insurance across state lines. I purchase my auto insurance and home owners coverage in another state than the one I reside, why couldn't I do that with health insurance? This administration is so adept at making rules to live by that this shouldn't be a problem for them, just tell us it is done and it will be done without any input from the people who elected them. That's dictating and that's is where we are right now! BTW, show me 10 people without health coverage and I will show you half of them with cable TV, cell phones, playstation games, Ipods and a whole raft of things that I call luxuries. Also this so called health care reform was supposed to cover 40 million uninsured and with this great legislation that is going to be foisted upon us, 30 million remain uninsured but 300 million will be forced to have coverage that is less than what they now have and it will bankrupt this nation.

john jay| 1.4.10 @ 11:28PM

again,your ignorance is unbelievable,maybe not,liberals in general are idiots,who finances your existence?

Faffnir| 1.4.10 @ 3:38PM

Do you have any grasp of the concept "Insurance"? You are aware that employer provided health insurance will be a thing of the past, superseded by the kind of "health care" provided by the socialist paradises of Cuba, Canada and Great Britain? You are aware that ERISA, a Federal law, requires companies that self-insure to protect the group by dropping anyone who might pose a catastrophic loss? You are aware that the taxes start immediately on passage of this abortion, but the "benefits" don't start until 2014? You are a schmuck, aren't you?
And a rather ignorant one, at that.

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Richard Baker| 1.4.10 @ 6:11PM

Johnson left the Presidency in disgrace. His own party rejected him and it was very clear that LBJ would be repudiated at the polls. Eugene McCarthy, Bobby Kennedy, and many other Democrats ran against Johnson. The anti-war movement constantly ridiculed and harrassed the man. "Hey, Hey, LBJ. How many kids did you kill today?" I grew up in Northern Virginia and the entire mess was on display downtown just about everyday for years. and in the papers, as well. One day, my Dad, who worked in DC, told me to avoid driving to the District as there was going to be a lot of tear gas used to break up the protests. LBJ left in disgrace.

Ken (Old Texican)| 1.4.10 @ 6:45PM

Richard,
You are precisely correct. LBJ was a personal...AND...moral coward.

He is a disgrace to every Texan.
He was a broken man when he slithered off to his ranch here.

S.L. Toddard| 1.4.10 @ 6:51PM

Liberal Reader, you're a schmuck and a loser, here's what you would do to us and what you're used to receive:
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Richard Baker| 1.4.10 @ 6:53PM

Ken:
I've always wondered if he just sat his butt in the Pedernales and wondered what happened to him in '69 after Nixon was inaugurated?

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Brian| 1.4.10 @ 9:35PM

This is lunacy, the federal government has made a dog's breakfast of what it has on its plate currently. And now this?

Where are the Medicare reforms that were promised? All we get from these corrupt and incompetent Democrats are lofty promises.

And what happens when these unqualified clown acts enact one of their idiotic programs, are cost overruns, lousy service and a long litany of excuses for what they (once again) crapped the bed.

Fortunately for Democrats, when health care becomes a complete debacle under the insane clown posse in Congress, they'll have the media explain to the public how it's all Republicans fault.

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Yosemeti Sam| 1.4.10 @ 11:53PM

" ... "Somewhere I hear the faint sound of Lyndon Johnson clapping," wrote left-leaning Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, fawning over Harry "Houdini" Reid's magically purchased votes ...."

And does this dolt also hear the faint silence
from a long black marble wall in DC?

Dingy doing LBJ proud?

Two masters of - deceit!

LOL.

What's to applaud about Dingy when he
hoists a white flag to Americas' enemies; yet
hoists a Jolly Roger flag to the loyal - to America - opposition party.

Osamas Pajamas| 1.5.10 @ 2:22AM

Dingy Harry Reid izza booger and he has dirty ears. ~:

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Pat Spooner| 1.5.10 @ 5:46AM

Someone should investigate what the real bribes were that secured Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson's votes. The legislation is so massive that it will take a monumental effort to get to the bottom of this - politicians do not make these kind of decisions based on a few dollars being allocated to their states. Many promises for personal gain and much mischief can also be accomplished in one on one conversations. Remember the president is a lawyer, worked hand in hand with ACORN to steal elections for the DEMONcrats and he will use fear to scare folks to support his agenda.

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