Sen. Landrieu defends Medicaid deal for La.: "WASHINGTON (AP) - Called a prostitute by conservative talk show hosts, a Louisiana Democrat on Thursday defended a deal she cut for her Hurricane Katrina-ravaged state in the Senate health care bill.
Sen. Mary Landrieu insisted the Medicaid boost worth $300 million wasn't the price for her vote for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care plan and she noted that state Republicans backed the deal. Defiantly, she said she would do it all over again if she had to.
'I don't need this job badly enough—maybe some people do, I don't—to throw the people of my state under the bus to protect myself politically,' Landrieu said in an impassioned speech on the Senate floor.
The deal has been derided as the 'Louisiana Purchase' and conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have both labeled Landrieu a 'prostitute' for obtaining it.
In recent weeks, Obama has also alluded to messy dealmaking as a reason for public skepticism about the health care bill. He referred in his State of the Union speech to 'lobbying and horse-trading' and told ABC News earlier, 'It's an ugly process and it looks like there are a bunch of backroom deals.'"
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