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Rep. Altmire, D-PA, ‘In The No’

Posted on | March 19, 2010 | 11 Comments

by <i>Smitty</i>

The Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports Jason Altmire a no,

despite weeks of personal entreaties from President Obama and Democratic House leaders, he said today.

Altmire, D-McCandless, was considered an important swing vote for House leaders who are trying to attract 216 supporters for the signature domestic initiative of Obama’s presidency.

Altmire voted against a previous health care bill last year ,and as the climactic vote on this Senate bill approaches, he has been buffeted by protests for and against the plan, intense lobbying in Congress and two visits to the White House.

FireDogLake manages the pessimistic count for those in favor of continuing these United States, and says that the Wicked Witch of the West is five unnatural acts shy of victory, at 211.

Category: Health Care

Comments

11 Responses to “Rep. Altmire, D-PA, ‘In The No’”

  1. Joe
    March 19th, 2010 @ 10:24 pm

    Thank you Rep. Altmire.

  2. Joe
    March 19th, 2010 @ 5:24 pm

    Thank you Rep. Altmire.

  3. Cheney W. Halliburton
    March 19th, 2010 @ 10:30 pm

    the Wicked Witch of the West is five unnatural acts shy of victory, at 211.

    How appropriate — the police radio code for armed robbery in many cities.

  4. Joe
    March 19th, 2010 @ 10:30 pm

    If Obamacare gets pushed through on Sunday, it will mark the end of the Great Experiment.

    We will then need to start over by whatever means possible.

    From the Declaration of Independence: “…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

    God, help us, please!

  5. Cheney W. Halliburton
    March 19th, 2010 @ 5:30 pm

    the Wicked Witch of the West is five unnatural acts shy of victory, at 211.

    How appropriate — the police radio code for armed robbery in many cities.

  6. Joe
    March 19th, 2010 @ 5:30 pm

    If Obamacare gets pushed through on Sunday, it will mark the end of the Great Experiment.

    We will then need to start over by whatever means possible.

    From the Declaration of Independence: “…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

    God, help us, please!

  7. smitty
    March 19th, 2010 @ 10:42 pm

    A new chapter, certainly. But Sunday isn’t the president’s ink, or the legal challenges, or the blowback in the Court of Public Opinion.
    In a pre-Internet Age, despair would be appropriate.
    Now, not so much.
    Peace.

  8. smitty
    March 19th, 2010 @ 5:42 pm

    A new chapter, certainly. But Sunday isn’t the president’s ink, or the legal challenges, or the blowback in the Court of Public Opinion.
    In a pre-Internet Age, despair would be appropriate.
    Now, not so much.
    Peace.

  9. Joe
    March 19th, 2010 @ 11:03 pm

    I am not so pessimistic as Joe above. I am still offended by Pelosi’s reference to St. Joseph. I know if this mess passes trying to reverse it will be at best, super difficult.

    I hope that we can block it.
    If we cannot block it, mitigate it.
    And eventually we can and will reverse it.
    It is all we can do.

  10. Joe
    March 19th, 2010 @ 6:03 pm

    I am not so pessimistic as Joe above. I am still offended by Pelosi’s reference to St. Joseph. I know if this mess passes trying to reverse it will be at best, super difficult.

    I hope that we can block it.
    If we cannot block it, mitigate it.
    And eventually we can and will reverse it.
    It is all we can do.

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