You pay for my family's health insurance. Suckers! From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review : "The goal of this bill and the selling point for it when they were trying to round up the votes was, 'Isn't it wonderful that we're going to cover 30 million uninsured people?' That shouldn't be the goal. The goal is, we want to bring down the cost of health care for families and small businesses and especially...
If you want a bean counter's view of life, I suggest you go back and re-read U.S. Rep Jason Altmire's op-ed piece last Friday "Why I Voted No on Health Reform." What is striking about this is what it is not - a rousing argument addressing the moral imperative to do something for the 46 million or so Americans who don't have health insurance. For Jason Altmire, it is all about the cost -...
I was in DC over the weekend for a conference and a friend, who knows my proclivities, gave me the 3 vol. July - Sept. Statement of Disbursements of the House. I'm told this information will be going online in the vaguely near future but for now is only available in paper. The quarterly spending is spelled out in detail (Paul Kanjorski is leasing a car? really'), down to what bottled water companies...
As you probably know, a group that I have dubbed The Infamous 53 , recently sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposing freedom for all Americans to travel to Cuba. Transcripts of the letter were available on the Internet. What was not ready available was the actual names of the 53. An alert reader of Cuba Journal sent to me a PDF file link with the text and the signatures and the names of the 53....
When last we checked in on Mary Beth Buchanan, President Bush's porn-hatin' , Tommy Chong-persecutin' , "Whizzinator" confiscatin' , jury-intimidatin' U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, she was clinging to her job with white knuckles, damn-near daring incoming President Barack Obama to fire her. Nearly a year later, Buchanan has finally served her last day on the job...
Timothy McNulty | November 16, 2009 We've heard a lot about Jason Altmire's nay vote on health care reform, but what about the yes from fellow Blue Dog Dem Kathy Dahlkemper? From the Erie Times-News (via PoliticsPa ): U.S. Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper, of Erie, might have put her political life on the line -- or enhanced it -- with her vote on health-care reform a week ago. . . . Dahlkemper, who is anti-abortion,...
Timothy McNulty | November 13, 2009 The PG's Jim O'Toole has a story today about health care reform supporters demonstrating at Jason Altmire's office in Aliquippa yesterday, unhappy with his vote against the House plan. It looks like the complaints have also gone national. The home page of today's Talking Points Memo , a leading liberal site, features the ad pictured above. Here's what the sponsors...
Looking at the Cook Political Report’s latest competitive race chart is in itself informative - the short version is that of the top 108 competitive races, the following ratios apply: Dem GOP Likely D 45 0 Leans D 23 1 Toss-up D 12 0 Toss-up R 0 3 Leans R 1 8 Likely R 0 15 Total 81 27 …but there’s some interesting things that can be seen with a little sorting. Below is a chart of...
Village wonk Jon Cohn writes : To [Marcia] Angell--and to others on the left [. . .] --this is reason for ditching the whole effort. But what, really, would that accomplish? The immediate impact would be to undermine Obama and his allies in Congress, creating the (accurate) impression they are incapable of passing major legislation. The Democratic Party would lose seats at the midterms and then, quite...
(from here ) ScienceBlogling Ed Brayton finds this little tidbit from the coverage of the Stupak amendment (italics mine): I'm bothered by something said in an earlier article on the CNN website about this: Several Democrats, including Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pennsylvania, said they are in touch with their Catholic bishops back home. Altmire said he must have the approval of his bishop in Pittsburgh...
When history called the U.S. House Saturday to give millions more Americans affordable health care - something which other advanced nations routinely provide their citizens - some members seized the moment and some remained blind or indifferent. The 220-215 vote was perilously close, but many great battles are decided that way. To their lasting shame, every Republican but one lined up against the...
In the wake of Saturday night's historic health care vote, the main lines of attack have been extremely partisan -- Republicans insist that politically vulnerable Democrats who voted for the bill will subsequently lose their seats and vice versa. Now, however, Democrats are being targeted from inside their own camp. The progressive advocacy group MoveOn.org released a new set of television ads on Monday...
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THEY VOTED 'NO' BECAUSE THEY DO NOT SERVE SATAN
Moveon.org is another New World Order hub for the Eugenics movement. Moveon is a propaganda machine which preys on those who either cannot or simply...
I am a little out of the swing of the news. I returned yesterday from Schenectady in upstate New York, from the weekend wedding of my cousin Reggie's daughter, Vanessa. The last time I was in Schenectady was four years ago when my son played his last lacrosse game against Union College. His team lost that day and it rained. This was a happier occasion. It's beautiful country up there, even if the...
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