Senate Democrat Hints At Quid Pro Quo Deal Between Obama And Drug Industry

Senator Tom Carper (D – DE) made some comments today aimed at getting his fellow liberals to back off the drug companies because they’d cut a deal with Obama. The problem? What he hinted at was a deal between Obama and the drug industry that included concessions from Obama in exchange for a big-money ad campaign in favor of Obamacare.

I’ll tell you — if someone negotiated a deal with me and I agreed to put up say, 80 dollars or 80 million dollars or 80 billion dollars and then you came back and said to me a couple of weeks later — no no, I know you agreed to do 80 billion and I know you were willing to help support through an advertising campaign this particular — not even this particular bill, just the idea of generic health care reform? No, we’re going to double — we’re going to double what you agreed in those negotiations to do. That’s not the way — that’s not what I consider treating people the way I’d want to be treated.

This is unethical, and probably illegal under campaign finance laws (though I’m no fan of those laws myself).