So, Scott Matheson appears to have the credentials to be a judge, but was his nomination used to buy off his brother’s vote?
Consider Congressman Matheson’s record on the health care bill. He voted against the bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee back in July and again when it passed the House in November. But now he’s “undecided” on ramming the bill through Congress. “The Congressman is looking for development of bipartisan consensus,” Matheson’s press secretary Alyson Heyrend wrote to THE WEEKLY STANDARD on February 22. “It’s too early to know if that will occur.” Asked if one could infer that if no Republican votes in favor of the bill (i.e. if a bipartisan consensus is not reached) then Rep. Matheson would vote no, Heyrend replied: “I would not infer anything. I’d wait to see what develops, starting with the health care summit on Thursday.”
The new version of PayGo. Obama pays off people to go vote for his schemes? The timing is more than a little suspicious, as the Standard points out. We have seen more than a little sleaze in the early stages of the ObamaCare odyssey. The Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker kickback. Did you really think the end game would be squeaky clean?
But how really, really ugly is the bill that is passed by such nefarious methods? The reality is that this monstrosity, if passed into law, will be even uglier than its passage.
