Sen. Pat Roberts' statement as the Finance Committee (on which he sits) prepares to vote on the Baucus health care alternative:
"I am terribly concerned that we are riding hell for leather into a health care box canyon, full of spending quicksand, cactus tax hikes, policy briar patches, complete with CMS regulatory scorpions rattlesnakes, and bad news bears.
"Something like riding your pickup over a whole tangle of barbed wire, and getting out of this Mr. Chairman and back on solid ground to make Medicare solvent is going to be a mighty rough and long ride."
And your point is?
I assume you think this is silly or stupid. Makes sense to me. I guess Helling is too sophisticated now and has gotten above his raising. The rest of us must be hicks now.