Pounding The Podium

Most of you who know me know that I have heart issues, that being the case I don’t watch C-Span    too much.  But tonight with the Abortion amendment and the Health care bill going up for a vote, I just could not help myself.

Soooo, what do I see – the attack of the weasel’s.  If you watched Cspan or have the misfortune to be represented by him, Bruce Brailey D in Iowa is pictured to the left.  Old Bruce gave an impassioned speech about how bad the Republican bill was because it did not address “Patient Safety” and he talked at length about how important patient safety was – heck he even held up books to prove his point.  What you didn’t hear Bruce talk about was ‘tort reform’, which is something that you may have heard a lot more about than patient safety.  Why no tort reform?  It is estimated that tort reform could have a huge impact on the deficit, reducing it by BILLIONS of dollars.  I just can’t understand why Bruce would not be in favor of it…that is until I look at his campaign contributions.

It seems that Lawyers and Law Firms like our boy Bruce..  a lot!  $168,000 plus!  Of course this could have something to do with the fact that he was a trial lawyer and head of a trial lawyers association, and who benefits from a lack of tort reform??  Your right, trial lawyers!

Making him even more lovable is his rating by the Right to Life association of ‘0′ and his rating of “F” by the National Taxpayers Union.  You can review his statistics and standings at these two sites:

http://www.votesmart.org

http://www.opensecrets.org

I’ve printed out his list of contributors below for your review.