The Intricacies of the medicare vote

[ForbiddenDonut]

I think these articles speak well for themselves.

Article #1

Article #2

 

[Mean MrMustard]

That makes Republicans look bad, so it must be fabricated. To think otherwise is unAmerican.

 

[Miramonti]

sleaze politics at its finest.

helluva democracy we got here.

 

[Vadatajs]

What did you expect? It IS the GOP after all.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Smith, self term-limited, is leaving Congress. His lawyer son Brad is one of five Republicans seeking to replace him from a GOP district in Michigan's southern tier. On the House floor, Nick Smith was told business interests would give his son $100,000 in return for his father's vote. When he still declined, fellow Republican House members told him they would make sure Brad Smith never came to Congress. After Nick Smith voted no and the bill passed, Duke Cunningham of California and other Republicans taunted him that his son was dead meat.

I'm glad morally has returned to government.