(The following is an excerpt from a chapter in 2010: Take Back America - A Battle Plan by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, in stores today)
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF HARRY REID
Beating Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid must be our number one priority. Reid is an old-time deal maker who's been accused of using his influence to line his own and his fa
mily's pockets. Like many of his colleagues, he has an ethical tin ear and will never admit that he's wrong. As majority leader of the Senate, Reid has been Obama's biggest cheerleader.
It was Reid who single-handedly jammed Obama's costly liberal agenda through the Senate by introducing a bold new leadership tool--bribing members to get their votes. During the initial health care debate, it was Reid who brokered a deal to get the crucial sixtieth vote: he promised Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska full federal funding for Medicaid expansion in his state--worth about $100
million--in exchange for his support.
And that was just part of it. Nelson also made another deal with Reid to help out insurance companies in Nebraska. According to published reports, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Nebraska would save between $15 million and $20 million in new fees under the provision in the Senate bill that Nelson negotiated.
And other Nebraska insurers would be excluded from taxes on supplemental Medigap insurance sold to the elderly.Those of us in the other 49 states - including his home state of Nevada - didn't abrove of his buying votes that we'd have to pay for.
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