Asses and Elephants Turn On Each Other: “Prostitution. Bribery. Blackmail. Thuggery. Hypocrisy.”

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm

As the debate over Obamacare and its coming effects on the U.S. economy and health care system heats up, Senators are pulling out all the stops, calling each other every name in the book.

On the Senate floor last week tempers flared as Senator David Vitter (R-LA) called for a vote on a controversial new bill bill.

The controversy? Vitter’s bill would no longer grant exemptions to Congressional members, who will partake in Obamacare, but unlike the rest of Americans they would be granted what amounts to platinum coverage.

Essentially, the bill calls for equal protection under the law, with no special treatment for individuals just because they happen to be elected representatives of the people.

Apparently that has gotten some Senate democrats a little fired up because… well… they’re Senators, and not like the rest of us proles.

Prostitution. Bribery. Blackmail. Thuggery. Hypocrisy.

Those were just some of the incendiary words thrown around the U.S. Senate last week, and that doesn’t count what people said in private.

The Senate may still have a reputation as a genteel club, but lawmakers seemed to abandon rules of decorum completely last week in arguments about whether Congress should be treated like the rest of the country when it comes to Obamacare.

Senator David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, has demanded a floor vote on his bill to end an exemption that members of Congress and their staffs are slated to get that will make them the only participants in the new Obamacare exchanges to receive generous subsidies from their employer to pay for their health insurance. Angry Senate Democrats have drafted legislation that dredges up a 2007 prostitution scandal involving Vitter. The confrontation is a perfect illustration of just how wide the gulf in attitudes is between the Beltway and the rest of the country — and how viciously Capitol Hill denizens will fight for their privileges.

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Vitter isn’t taking the attempts to strong-arm him quietly. “Harry Reid is acting like an old-time Vegas mafia thug, and a desperate one at that,” he said in a statement to Politico. He also wrote a letter to the Senate Ethics Committee demanding an investigation of Reid and Democratic senator Barbara Boxer of California. “Threatening to take away their colleagues’ health care coverage subsidy if they do not vote a certain way, at worst constitutes bribery and a quid pro quo arrangement, and at best amounts to improper conduct,” he wrote. Senator Reid’s office responded by calling Vitter’s charges “absurd and baseless.”

Source: National Review

Senators on both sides of the aisle often making it a point to tell us how they strive for equality, unless of course we’re talking about legislation that would force them to fall under the same legal umbrellas they have mandates for the rest of us.

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