Monday, December 21, 2009

The "Cornhusker Kickback"

Sen. Ben Nelson got a whole lot more than just a few windy promises from Harry Reid on abortion-funding. Betsy lays out the details on the bribes to Nelson and others, and asks a very interesting question: "[P]erhaps some lawyer who understands how these things work can explain how exempting Michigan and Nebraska in perpetuity from an excise tax is Constitutional under Article One, Section 8, Clause 1 which states, 'Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.'"

Looks like our representative form of government has been reduced to little more than the squabbling among pirates over the division of a chestful of Spanish doubloons.

3 comments:

smitty1e said...

Oh, Nelson got that in Cash for Cloture, and it will be struck in conference, and he'll vote against the bill, and say, "See, I was against this monstrosity."

And Nebraskans will reply, "See: pitchfork."

Yojimbo said...

After all of this people may wonder why the ex-governor of Illinois is going on trial.

17 states are exempted from taxes on their Cadillac plans which must leave the other 40 states in somewhat of a snit. The dems have now turned class struggle into state struggle.

Anonymous said...

Two documents the Democrats haven't read: 1) the Healthcare Reform Bill, and 2) the Constitution.