New Orleans Adult Entertainment: Sen. Mary Landrieu’s Medicare amendment puts Louisiana Republicans in a sticky …
December 12, 2009
Coburn is among the critics who suggested Landrieu got the amendment in exchange for her vote to allow debate on the bill, with some Capitol observers calling the amendment “the new Louisiana Purchase.” Coburn has stopped short of the harshest critiques by conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, both of whom called Landrieu a “prostitute.”
With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yet to set the debate schedule and parameters, it remains unclear whether Coburn’s amendment will come to a vote. Senate staffers on both sides of the aisle say he wouldn’t win anyway. Coburn spokesman John Hart said that’s beside the point: “He would want to have a vote.”
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The secretary was quick to praise Landrieu’s work on the amendment, though he offered little sympathy for Landrieu being a target of leading conservatives. The prostitute references, he said, “were over the top. But we all signed up for this. … This is the big leagues. This job that I have, the job the senator has, the job the governor has, it’s not for the faint of heart.”
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