Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: Virginia Jefferson-Jackson Dinner
Richmond, VA
February 9, 2008
We are tired of being disappointed by our politics. We are tired of being let down. We're tired of hearing promises made and ten-point plans proposed in the heat of a campaign only to have nothing change when everyone goes back to Washington. Because the lobbyists just write another check. Or because politicians start worrying about how they'll win the next election instead of why they should. Or because they focus on who's up and who's down instead of who matters.
...But in this election - at this moment - Americans are standing up all across the country to say, not this time. Not this year. The stakes are too high and the challenges too great to play the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expect a different result. And today, voters from the West Coast to the Gulf Coast to the heart of America stood up to say that it is time to turn the page.
...[I]n this election, our party cannot stand for business-as-usual in Washington. The Democratic Party must stand for change.
Obama promised to be the one to turn the page on "playing the same Washington game."
What a load! What a pack of lies!
Obama promised to change business-as-usual politics in Washington.
Add that to the ever-growing list of his broken promises.
Obama hasn't changed how Washington works. He's playing the same old games, making shady deals.
From Jonathan Karl, ABC News:
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”
I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.
In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)
Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.
How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.
This makes me sick.
Mary Landrieu of Louisiana
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