Do you want a good laugh? Check out this press release from January 18, 2006:
Democrats from across the country today unveiled their Honest Leadership and Open Government Act. In the Great Hall of the Library of Congress, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, were joined by Senator Barack Obama and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter and their Senate and House colleagues to shine a spotlight on the Republican “pay for play” politics that put special interests first at the expense of the priorities of the American people and signed a pledge to restore honest leadership and open government.
The below headlines sound like “pay to play” politics:
- Ben Nelson sells his health care vote to Harry Reid – Examiner
- Louisiana Purchase, Part Deux – Statesman Journal
- Health bill money for hospital sought by Dodd – AP
- Deep in Health Bill, Very Specific Beneficiaries – New York Times
- The Wages of Sin (Or, What the 60 Got) – National Review Online
- The Demcare Bribe List – Michelle Malkin
- Cash for Cloture: Demcare bribe list, Pt. II – Michelle Malkin