SEC. 2006. SPECIAL ADJUSTMENT TO FMAP DETERMINATION FOR CERTAIN STATES RECOVERING FROM A MAJOR DISASTER.

Section 1905 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d), as amended by sections 2001(a)(3) and
2001(b)(2), is amended— (1) in subsection (b), in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘subsection (y)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (y) and (aa)’’; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:

‘‘(aa)(1) Notwithstanding subsection (b), beginning January 1, 2011, the Federal medical assistance percentage for a fiscal year for a disaster-recovery FMAP adjustment State shall be equal to the following:
‘(A) In the case of the first fiscal year (or part of a fiscal year) for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), increased by 50 percent of the number of percentage points by which the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year after the application of only subsection (a) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5 (if applicable to the preceding fiscal year) and without regard to this subsection, subsection (y), and subsections (b) and (c) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5.

‘‘(B) In the case of the second or any succeeding fiscal year for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the preceding fiscal year under this subsection for the State, increased by 25 percent of the number of percentage points by which the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year under this subsection.

‘‘(2) In this subsection, the term ‘disaster-recovery FMAP adjustment State’ means a State that is one of
the 50 States or the District of Columbia, for which, at any time during the preceding 7 fiscal years, the President has declared a major disaster under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act and determined as a result of such disaster that every county or parish in the State warrant individual and public assistance or public assistance from the Federal Government under such Act and for which— ‘‘(A) in the case of the first fiscal year (or part of a fiscal year) for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year after the application of only subsection (a) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5 (if applicable to the preceding fiscal year) and without regard to this subsection, subsection (y), and subsections (b) and (c) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5, by at least 3 percentage points; and ‘‘(B) in the case of the second or any succeeding fiscal year for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year under this subsection by at least 3 percentage points.

‘‘(3) The Federal medical assistance percentage determined for a disaster-recovery FMAP adjustment State under paragraph (1) shall apply for purposes of this title (other than with respect to disproportionate share hospital payments described in section 1923 and payments under this title that are based on the enhanced FMAP described in 2105(b)) and shall not apply with respect to payments under title IV (other than under part E of title IV) or payments under title XXI.’’.

I hope you didn’t read all of that. That’s the longest misspelling of the word “Louisiana” in history.

In so many words, that’s the new “Louisiana Purchase”, Harry Reid’s $100 million payoff to Sen. Mary Landrieu for her vote last night.

And “in so many words” is the point.

The whole bill is chock full o’ the same kind of obscufatory obstucatorie obfuscatary tricky language, designed entirely to hide from you what your government is doing to you.

That’s why the bill is so lengthy; there are so many favors to trial lawyers, payoffs to unions, empowerments to the abortion industry, special pleadings and sweetheart deals, brand new taxes, fees and mandates, invasions of privacy, expansions of raw government power and astronomical costs that they must be cloaked in impenetrable legalese, lest people riot in the streets at this assault on their freedoms.

It’s all a lie, a damned lie. And it is the way this crowd does all their business.

Whether its fleeing the country before your attorney general announces the KSM trial while pretending he made an independent decision in some elaborate Good Cop/Bad Cop routine. Or firing Inspector Generals because your friends are under investigation. Or counting “saved or created” jobs. Or passing a law ostensibly to help a little old lady but really aimed at letting trial lawyers gut statutes of limitations and sue dead people who can’t fight back. Or slashing budgets of union corruption investigators. Or this:

Under an innocuous-sounding section titled “School-Based Health Clinics Sec. 399Z-1″ H.R. 3200 will authorize Planned Parenthood, as a “sponsoring facility,” to run a clinic during school hours on the grounds of public schools, with absolutely no accountability either to parents or school administrators. Clinics would be accountable only to the Secretary of Health & Human Services, the radically pro-abortion Kathleen Sebelius, who was a fervent supporter of late-term abortionist George Tiller. All this will be done at taxpayer expense. And unlike the rest of the bill, which isn’t slated to go into effect until 2013, these clinics are scheduled to go into schools next fall.

This is the guy who went to Rick Warren’s church during the campaign and promised to seek common ground on this issue. Instead, during this entire process, he has been conducting hush-hush meetings with Planned Secrethood.

And that’s the way all their public business is transacted. Privately. Dishonestly. Secretivelively. We’ve grown so used to the deceptions, it barely even registers anymore.

If someone does inadvertently tell the truth, that’s called a “gaffe“, and their spokesman will soon rush to the microphone and solemnly promise us that their boss will never, ever tell us the truth again, and the world soon returns to its proper order.

And Joe Biden once again sleeps like a baby. Or a Thorazine patient–whatever.

They expect to lie to us and we expect to be lied to.

And for once, they don’t disappoint.