Three Lackies Lapping

[JackLuis]

They slipped an eleventh hour loophole into the New Year’s Eve deal that kept the government from going over the fiscal cliff. When the sun rose in the morning, there it was, a richly embroidered loophole for Amgen that will cost taxpayers a cool half a billion dollars.

The story told us of a pharmaceutical giant called Amgen and three senators so close to it they might as well be entries on its balance sheet: Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY), Democratic Senator Max Baucus (MT), chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and that powerful committee’s ranking Republican, Orrin Hatch (UT). A trio of perpetrators who treat the United States Treasury as if it were a cash-and-carry annex of corporate America.

All three have received hefty campaign donations from the company whose bottom line mysteriously just got padded at taxpayer expense. Since 2007, Amgen employees and its political action committee have contributed nearly $68,000 to Senator Baucus, $73,000 to Senator McConnell’s campaigns, and $59,000 to Senator Hatch.

When will Obama point these things out to the people?

 

[LadyVer]

That's a rhetorical question, right?

 

[CHNOPS]

Clicked through and read the Times article. Disappointing, perhaps, but straight-up politics as usual. And hard to argue that it cost taxpayers MORE than no deal would have.

Surely this isn't your first exposure to the fact that all politicians are crooked turds beholden to their donors?

 

[JackLuis]

Surely this isn't your first exposure to the fact that all politicians are crooked turds beholden to their donors?

No, just pointing out the stories that slip thru the cracks in our fractured Republic.

 

[Tryharder62]

...two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.

 

[JackLuis]

...two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.

Not exactly but, funny!