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Will The Democrats Reap ?Wonderment And Happiness??

Compare Harry Reid?s prediction from the Senate floor before the final health care vote ?

We?re going to hear an earful, but it?s going to be an earful of wonderment and happiness that people waited for for a long time

? with the greeting of Sen. Christopher Dodd at a news conference shortly after he returned to Connecticut:

As Dodd spoke Thursday, a man walking by called out: ?Talk while you can; you?re not going to get re-elected.?

Dodd at least was not alone.

About 100 people showed up Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Baton Rouge to protest U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu?s support of the Democratic health-care bill being debated in the U.S. Senate

When Harry Reid himself got home, was he greeted with ?wonderment and happiness?? Hardly. In fact, he was greeted with this editorial from Sherman Frederick, the publisher of the Las Vegas Review Journal:

I?m very disappointed.

It?s Christmas morning and I can?t find one single gift to Nevada from Sen. Harry Reid under the health-care ?reform? tree.

Louisiana got a nice package. Florida and Connecticut, too. And Nebraska scored a really big present.

Just three days ago Uncle Harry said that if a senator didn?t get his state ?something? in the health-care ?reform? package, then that senator wasn?t doing his or her job.

And yesterday Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., upped the ante. He said that every state did ?get something? in the measure.

OK. I?m excited. What?s Nevada?s gift? Uncle Harry, as everyone knows, is the Big Kahuna of the Senate. He ?brings home the bacon,? his TV commercials claim. So if Nebraska got dispensation from Medicaid increases forever, one can only imagine the magnitude of Nevada?s present....

Reid threw the dice (and everything else) gambling on ?wonderment and happiness,? but he seems to have come up with snake eyes.

I?m sure many others across the country are also wondering what bribes ?bacon? their senators brought home. Here?s one such question, whose author I can reliably report has received no reply:

As a Virginian, I wonder what my Senators, Jim Webb and Mark Warner, got. Does their silence about the bribes goodies for Virginia they secured mean they are embarrassed because they gave their votes away for free, meaning they liked the Reid bill so much they didn?t have to be bribed induced to vote for it? Or are they embarrassed to admit their votes were for sale? Or perhaps they are embarrassed for having sold too cheaply? I assume we?ll find out.

Full post as published by Discriminations on December 26, 2009 (boomark / email).