Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Barack OPhRMA

The folks at FireDogLake are outraged that Carper wants to keep the cost to drug companies at $80 billion; apparently, he thinks a secret deal is a deal, while the FDL folks think Congress shouldn't be held to any limitations in a deal that was negotiated in secret with just a few members and/or the Obama administration.

Could we spare a little outrage for the fact that the White House and perhaps members of Congress apparently negotiated a deal on legislation in exchange for running millions of dollars in ads? How is this not bribery and a violation of campaign finance laws?

I wonder what Barack would actually have to do to be locked up for corruption?

But then I've been wondering for years why the entire Chicago "government" isn't in jail. Silly me.