Haggling

Background: The recent health care boondoggle was passed through the Senate after a few senators sold their votes. Strange, Monica Conyers was recently convicted for doing such a thing. Apparently you need to be an esteemed senator to get away with it. I don't expect this one will get published.

Update: Wow. The News published it. My last letter for 2009. I basically call a couple US Senators whores and a family newspaper publishes it. Looking forward to 2010!

Hearing that Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., Mary Landrieu, D-La., and others sold their vote on the bill to hijack our health insurance, I was reminded of a story sometimes attributed to Winston Churchill. Churchill asks a wealthy socialite if she would sleep with him for five million pounds and she responds "Yes". Churchill then asks if she would sleep with him for five pounds. Indignant, she responds "What kind of woman do you think I am?" Churchill replies, "Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling over the price."

[Letter to the Editor - The Detroit News. Published 12/31/2009.]