Our pay-to-play politics sound like Marie Antoinette
Sometimes what comes out of the mouths of our pay-to-play politics is STUNNING!
As liberal protesters marched outside, Sen. Max Baucus sat down inside a San Francisco mansion for a dinner of chicken cordon bleu and a discussion of landmark health-care legislation under consideration by his Senate Finance Committee.
At the table on May 26 were about 20 donors willing to fork over $10,000 or more to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, including executives of major insurance companies, hospitals and other health-care firms.
“Most people there had an agenda; they wanted the ear of a senator, and they got it,” said Aaron Roland, a San Francisco health-care activist who paid half price to attend the gathering. “Money gets you in the door. The only thing the other side can do is march around and protest outside.”
Oh really, the only thing the other side can do is march around? OUTSIDE?
This is what’s wrong with America, the $10,000 chicken cordon bleu…
Well, you know what they say. Money talks. And evidently, when it does, people in power will listen.
What does this have to do with national health care policy? Well, Mr. Obama achieved his November victory promotion with more than a little help from such “friends.”