We've already established what kind of Senator you are...

... now we're just haggling about the price.

Bill Nelson, though, is a cheaper whore that Ben Nelson and Mary Laundry.

This site is not allowing me to cut and paste. Unlike Ben, who got a Medicare payoff for his whole state, Bill could only get an exemption of Medicare cuts for three Democratic counties. The other 2 million old-timers in Florida are screwed.

The phone line to Bill Nelson's Tampa office is busy. He's not up for re-election until 2012, so he's counting on short memories.

I know it's not Laundry, but I can't spell her name.

edit by the 'fly - it's Landreau, I believe.  And the new Blogger post editor/creator makes the cut-and-paste a bit of a hassle.  I grabbed the money graf for you:

Many pundits wondered how Nelson could justify supporting a health care reform bill that cuts Medicare by $500 billion when his home state has so many seniors. Now, we know. He is having the heart of his base exempted from the worst of the cuts.

When you try to paste now, you have to click the "allow access" button, and then Blogger should permit it.  Who knows why they do it.

You have a good point about the size of Bill Nelson's particular bribe compared to the others.  Ed Morrissey (courtesy of the Ace of Spades) gives a fine rundown of the pay-to-play largesse Harry Reid is funneling from the public purse, even while the Senate debates raising the debt ceiling.

There's a reason why consumers can't raise their own credit limits with most lenders - they'd go more broke, more quickly, and in enough numbers to risk the solvency of the banks doing the lending.  It takes a special brand of willful blindness to scold banks for going along with it, vote for a government bailout to that problem, and then turn around mere months later and try to commit the same mistake; akin to a parent who pulls his kid out of a fire and then dives back into the building to prove how hot it is.