If your Senator wasn't bought off, he's a chump

http://www.politico.com/livepulse/1209/Reid_defends_deals_.html

Reid defends deals
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) offered a vigorous defense Monday of the deals in the Senate reform bill that benefit individual states, saying “it doesn’t speak well” of senators who didn’t secure such deals.

“There are 100 senators here and I don’t know that there’s a senator that doesn’t have something in this bill that isn’t important to them,” Reid said. “If they don’t have something in it important to them then it doesn’t speak well of them.”

He likened the legislation to the defense bill, which is thick with earmarks and other provisions benefitting individual members and even private corporations.

“That’s what legislations all about,” Reid said of the compromises. “It’s the art of compromise. In this great country of ours, Nevada has many different problems than does New Hampshire. Michigan has many different problems than does Georgia.”

By Jake Sherman

Some taxpayers have known there are some members of ill repute in the Senate, at least now we know their price. And Reid paid the price with your tax dollars! Are you outraged?