Whoring for Health Care

Probably the most ridiculous and vulgar ad that has ever been conceived is the current MTV Rock the Vote ad, "What will you do for Health Care? As some of you may be aware, MTV had decided to accept political advertising right after Obama was assured of the Democrat nomination.  No small coincidence inasmuch as the Left leaning media will almost always the bend their self-serving standards and practices to accomodate Liberal policies. 

Even NBC's TV show Law and Order got in on the promomotion of the Health Care Reform that the American people don't seem to want. While you could make an argument that the dialogue that discusses health care insurance is realistic, the issue of a lifetime cap on insurance benefits is a little too specific to ring true.  It sounds more like a talking point written by David Axelrod. But Axelrod didn't get an "additonal dialogue" credit for the episode.

One of the discussion threads on the Ron Paul Forums is called "Whoring for Healthcare." That about sums it up vis-à-vis the Rock the Vote ad. Although the recent purchase of Senate Democrat votes to get cloture on the debate is more apropos to the issue of whoring for Health Care. It's funny how prostitution seems to be the flavor of the month. It's okay to sell yourself. According to the CBS News Politics page:

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, responded Tuesday to widespread criticism that Democrats only garnered the 60 votes needed to defeat Republican stalling tactics on the health reform bill by catering to self-interest, saying Democrats are focusing on the big picture; "trying to cross a demarcation line." Harkin dismissed deals dubbed vote-buying by GOP senators as "small stuff" that distracted Americans from the primary focus of the overhaul bill.

According to the December 20, 2009, Washington Post article entitled, Health bill money for hospital sought by Dodd:

A $100 million item for construction of a university hospital was inserted in the Senate health care bill at the request of Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who faces a difficult re-election campaign, his office said Sunday night.  

The legislation leaves it up to the Health and Human Services Department to decide where the money should be spent, although spokesman Bryan DeAngelis said Dodd hopes to claim it for the University of Connecticut.

The provision is included in a 383-page series of changes to the health care bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., outlined Saturday. Scattered throughout are numerous items sought by individual lawmakers, many of them directing money explicitly to programs or projects in their home states.

Apparently Senator Ben "Kornhusker Kickback" Nelson also got an earful from his constituents in Nebraska and his DC offices and it wasn't very pretty.

But the Democrats won't listen to the people because they have a another agenda besides health care.  And it's the same agenda that the fleeing Kremlin refugees brought with them when they moved into the DNC Headquarters in 1992. You recall 1992? That was the year that the Soviet Union fell and Bill Clinton was elected President.