Reid on ObamaCare: Hey, sometimes you need to buy people off

“That’s what legislation’s all about. It’s the art of compromise.”

(By Allahpundit, Hot Air) - Via Breitbart and Slublog, a belated answer to a question I posed two days ago. Why, I wondered, hadn’t Blue Dogs like Bayh and Lincoln held out for the same Medicaid buyout for their states that Nelson got for Nebraska? Are they just suckers?

Reid’s take: Yes, they’re suckers.

“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.”