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Right From Left (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Why did Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA) vote no on PelosiCare? "Without cost-control, health-care reform is an empty promise."
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The Infamous 53: Same Old Crowd with a Few New Dogs
Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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....
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Mary Beth Buchanan Finally Quits; Regrets Not Having Been Even Douchier
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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...
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Dahlkemper explains health vote
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
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,...
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Springdale WW II vet receives long overdue medals
Valley News Dispatch (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
It was a suprise to Paul Mikus, 84, when Congressman Jason Altmire presented him not the eight medals he had earned, but nine.
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Liberal PAC targets Altmire
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
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...
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Looking at the Cook Competitive Race Chart.
Red State (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
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...
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An Unconvincing Argument For "Health Care Reform"
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
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...
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Is Healthcare Worth a Mass?
Mike the Mad Biologist (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
(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...
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Healthy turn: A House divided passes a historic reform bill
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
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...
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MoveOn Targets Dems Who Voted Against Reform
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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...
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Altmire marries the insurance industry
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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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Liberals: Altmire is stupak
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Timothy McNulty | November 9, 2009 We posted earlier about Republican criticisms of Dems who voted in favor of health care reform. And now here's the flipside -- liberal Dems criticizing fellow Democrats like Jason Altmire for voting against it. Much of the anger is over the Stupak amendment, which barred federal funding for abortion services (and which Altmire, Mike Doyle and Jack Murtha supported)....
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Toomey v Sestak on HC
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Timothy McNulty | November 9, 2009 Pat Toomey is still acting as if Joe Sestak will be his Senate opponent next year, instead of Arlen Specter. Here's his camp's statement yesterday on Sestak's aye vote Saturday night: Allentown , PA - Last night, the House of Representatives approved a radical government-run health care plan that costs over $1 trillion and creates over 100 new federal bureaucracies....
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"Stupak" makes it in to the Urban Dictionary
2 Political Junkies (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Does "stupak" mean: "A medical condition (subset of sepsis) resulting from unsafe - unnecessarily so - back alley abortions as a result of the "Stupak Amendment" to the 2009 Health Care Reform Bill." Or is it: adj: imposing religious beliefs of one group on another, especially through legislation or financial pressure. How about: To do something ridiculous, silly, moronic,...