Congressman Chris Carney (PA-10), announced late this afternoon that he will be supporting Health Insurance Reform when it comes up for a vote in the House. Carney supported the House Bill, but was undecided on the Senate Bill and reconciliation package. In recent days he has expressed exasperation and a bit of anger towards what he called "unconscionable" and "entirely misleading" anti-Health Insurance Reform television ads targeting him, which were financed by the astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity.
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Saturday, January 13, 2007
Official Web Pages for Pennsylvania's New Members of the 110th
Jason Altimire, PA-4
Joe Sestak, PA-7
Pat Murphy, PA-8
Chris Carney, PA-10
All of these new members of the House had their fully-functioning web pages up and running at least a week ago.
Bobby Casey, Jr., is the only new member of the Pennsylvania federal delegation who hasn't bothered to get his official web page up and running. But, give him a break, what with his fire-brand calling for "more study" on ethics reform, and preparing those scintillating first words on the Senate floor, he's a really busy guy these days.
Bobby Casey, Jr., is the only new member of the Pennsylvania federal delegation who hasn't bothered to get his official web page up and running. But, give him a break, what with his fire-brand calling for "more study" on ethics reform, and preparing those scintillating first words on the Senate floor, he's a really busy guy these days.
More First Words from the 110th
More from our series on the first words spoken from the floor of the House and Senate by the members of Pennsylvania's new federal delegation. Today, Chris Carney and Jason Altimire finish out the House and we have, momentus as they are, finally heard the first words uttered on the floor of the Senate by Bobby Casey, Jr.:
Chris Carney, PA-10, January 10, in support of the Minimum Wage Act:
Mr. CARNEY. I would like to thank my colleague from California for the time.Mr. Speaker, today the House will vote for bipartisan legislation aimed at increasing the minimum wage and making an important change for the families of nearly 13 million American workers.
It is unconscionable, Mr. Speaker, that the minimum wage has remained unchanged for nearly 10 years. During the past decade, consumer costs have skyrocketed. Energy, health care and education costs have all risen, while my constituents have seen their real incomes drop.
It is wrong that millions of Americans work full time and year around and still live in poverty. I am voting to give them a raise, a raise that is long overdue.
This bill will increase the minimum wage by $2.10 an hour over 2 years. This will mean an additional $4,400 for a family of three equaling 15 months' worth of groceries or 2 years' worth of health care. Helping them to keep up with the rising costs of these necessities is something that we have the moral obligation to do.
As the father of five, I understand, I keenly understand the impact of rising costs on a tight family budget.
Raising the minimum wage is the first step to a stronger economy for all Americans, not just for the privileged few. Our action today will make a real difference in the lives of America's working families and I am proud to vote for it, and I respectfully urge my colleagues to stand with our working families, as well.
Jason Altimire, PA-4, January 11, in support of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act:
Mr. ALTMIRE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill. Having worked for a large academic medical center, I have seen the promise that embryonic stem cell research holds for Americans suffering from chronic disabilities such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
We all know people with these disabilities and a vote for this bill is a vote for them. This bill says specifically that it only applies to embryos that would otherwise be discarded by the fertility clinics. So a vote for this bill is a pro-life vote. We must pass this bill for the millions of Americans that suffer from debilitating medical conditions today and the millions more that will tomorrow.
This is something that is deeply personal to me. I am a pro-life Democrat. The reason I am supporting this bill is because this is a pro-life vote. There is nothing more important that we can do in this Congress than to support life. This is a pro-life vote. I urge my colleagues to pass this bill.
That completes the House -- all of the new House members from Pennsylvania have delivered their maiden speeches, on matters of particular interest to them. Previously, we had Pat Murphy on PAYGO and Joe Sestak introducing himself to the permanent written record of the United States Congress with his speech on the adoption of the 9/11 Commission recommendations.
Now, gentle reader, brace yourself, for we take you to the floor of the Senior Chamber, the United States Senate, where the gathered 100 are hushed to hear new Senator Bob Casey utter his first words on the floor of that august hall:
Now, gentle reader, brace yourself, for we take you to the floor of the Senior Chamber, the United States Senate, where the gathered 100 are hushed to hear new Senator Bob Casey utter his first words on the floor of that august hall:
Bob Casey, January 11, 2007:
Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Casey). Without objection, it is so ordered.
Friday, October 27, 2006
Cleland Returns to Campaign with Carney
Max Cleland will be in Northeast Pennsylvania again, the first Weekend in November, to support the campaign of Chris Carney (D). Carney is on his way to oust Don ("sumtimes I just wanna strangle the bitch") Sherwood as the US Rep for Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District. Sherwood deserves to be retired, for more reasons than having engaged in an (allegedly) abusive (admitted) extra-marital affair.Cleland is a true hero, having suffered grevious wounds in Vietnam, he returned to serve in the Georgia Senate, then as head of the Veteran's Administration in the Carter Administration. In 1996, Cleland won Sam Nunn's Senate seat when Nunn retired. Many of us were none-too-pleased that Cleland supported the odious Bush tax cuts in 2001 and the following year when he voted to authorize the Iraq war. His reward for supporting the President on these two measures was to be smeared as soft on terrorism by Republican ads linking him with bin Laden and Saddam. He lost his seat in what some would say was a questionable vote count (the day before the election a newspaper poll put him at + 3 or 4 points and he lost by a near landslide).
An early supporter of the Iraq war, he was appointed to the 9-11 Commission but resigned over the Administration's stonewalling of Commission requests. He is now a fierce opponent of the war and bluntly says that the adminsitration "duped" us into the war.
The Carney Campaign has a busy weekend:
Saturday, November 4, 2006
10:30 am Dickson City: Disabled American Veterans Hall, 516 Storrs Street
12 noon Honesdale: Honesdale Central Park
1:45 pm Milford: Hotel Fauchere, 401 Broad Street
4:00 pm Tunkhannock: Wyoming County Courthouse, 1 Courthouse Square
5:45 pm Dushore: Pam's Restaurant, 123 E. Main Street
7:00 pm Towanda: The Weigh Station Cafe, 1 Washington Street
Sunday, November 5, 2006 *with special guest The Honorable Max Cleland
9:00 am Montrose: Downtown Grounds Cafe, 42 Church Street
11:30 am Harvey's Lake: American Legion Harvey's Lake, Route 415 & Annabelle Avenue
1:30 pm* Lewisburg: Hufnagel Park, 551 Market Street
2:45 pm* Selinsgrove: BJ's Barbecue & Pub, 17 N. Market Street
4:00 pm* Sunbury: Cameron Park, Downtown Sunbury
5:15 pm* Danville: American Legion, Route 11 South
6:45 pm* Williamsport: American Legion Banquet Hall, 10 E. 3rd Street
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
"Had Enough"?
It started right at the beginning -- George Washington had one, so did John Adams, Jefferson offered "Jefferson and Liberty", Lincoln had "Lincoln and Liberty", and who could forget "Jimmy Polk of Tennessee"?
And now we have Chris Carney's newest addition to the American campaign song tradition:
John Laesch, taking on Hasert, has also joined the song fest with this one:
And then there's good ole' Charlie Brown looking to boot John Doolittle:
Add to those, Jerry McEnerney, Robert Rodriquez, David Roth, Joe Sestak, and more.
While each iteration isn't exactly original, watching them seriatim, as I did, one realizes that they are all right on point -- the reasons to throw these bums out are all the same. The paradigm of the republican control of our government is the lock step/close ranks/stop thought tactic of control. The same sort of bad thinking and dirty politics which enabled and protected the likes of Foley, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush as they have systematically set about to destroy our government, our world standing, our military, our environment, our economy . . . . .
Yeah, I've had enough.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
How to Tell if You Have LOST YOUR MIND
Often, it is the people around you who will first realize that you have lost your mind. That can be quite embarrassing -- being the last one to know something so personal about yourself. So, as a public service, lemme see if I can help.
Let's say you find yourself in this situation . . . . say you have a job, oh, pick one, let's use CONGRESSMAN. AND then let us say that someone says that you had an affair with a woman about 300 pounds lighter and three decades younger than you are. And then let's say that you lie about her and claim that she was only a casual acquaintance. But then it comes to light that this casual acquaintance made a 911 call from your bathroom in Washington and filed a police report about you beating up on her. And then, say, you finally admit that your definition of casual acquaintance means "a woman I've been shtupping for five years behind my wife's back". But now you deny that you beat her. And suppose then she sues your ass for over $5 million and says that she lived with you for five years and that you assaulted and beat and choked her and yanked her hair, repeatedly. And then you deny the claims but the next thing people hear is that you get an out of court secret settlement with her, and they wonder how much you had to pay her to settle claims you first said were untrue, after admitting you lied about not admitting to the affair . . . . And now your "family values" are threatening your reelection campaign, so you look around for someone to help you.
If you find yourself in that situation and the person you choose to help you has just been accused of covering-up, for several years, for yet another republican congressman who was hitting on and trying to entice children into bed, then in that case ---
Let's say you find yourself in this situation . . . . say you have a job, oh, pick one, let's use CONGRESSMAN. AND then let us say that someone says that you had an affair with a woman about 300 pounds lighter and three decades younger than you are. And then let's say that you lie about her and claim that she was only a casual acquaintance. But then it comes to light that this casual acquaintance made a 911 call from your bathroom in Washington and filed a police report about you beating up on her. And then, say, you finally admit that your definition of casual acquaintance means "a woman I've been shtupping for five years behind my wife's back". But now you deny that you beat her. And suppose then she sues your ass for over $5 million and says that she lived with you for five years and that you assaulted and beat and choked her and yanked her hair, repeatedly. And then you deny the claims but the next thing people hear is that you get an out of court secret settlement with her, and they wonder how much you had to pay her to settle claims you first said were untrue, after admitting you lied about not admitting to the affair . . . . And now your "family values" are threatening your reelection campaign, so you look around for someone to help you.
If you find yourself in that situation and the person you choose to help you has just been accused of covering-up, for several years, for yet another republican congressman who was hitting on and trying to entice children into bed, then in that case ---
YOU HAVE LOST YOUR FUCKING MIND!!!!
Glad to help, don't mention it.
{UPDATE 10/10/06: Guess I helped. Sherwood has cancelled the Hasert and Reynolds events. Actually, pressure from Chris Carney and his "best political ad of the year" gets the credit; no mention of the Slob.}
Glad to help, don't mention it.
{UPDATE 10/10/06: Guess I helped. Sherwood has cancelled the Hasert and Reynolds events. Actually, pressure from Chris Carney and his "best political ad of the year" gets the credit; no mention of the Slob.}
Monday, August 28, 2006
Right Wing Analyst Tosses Up Sherwood
The Carney Campaign is on the move. They have announced that the right-wing political analyst, Stuart Rothenberg, has moved their battle against adulterer and alleged mistress abuser Donald Sherwood from the leans-R to the tossup column.
Rothenburg, aligned with right-wing sentiments, is nonetheless a highly regarded analyst of Congressional Races. His paid-subscription newsletter is not widely circulated, but is must reading for political journalists and Congressional-Candidate-Committee-types, and for anyone else who depends on the state of the balance of power in the House.
In his analysis, Rothenberg notes that “"Cong. Don Sherwood has had plenty of problems",” and he calls Chris Carney "“an interesting challenger." He says that Sherwood'’s grip on the District is "“tenuous."” Rothenberg concludes that "This is a very interesting Democratic opportunity and a GOP headache in a very Republican district."
In short, this is major good news for the Carney folks. Sherwood, if not on, is stumbling towards the ropes. (That is a picture of not-his-wife, by the way.)
Rothenburg, aligned with right-wing sentiments, is nonetheless a highly regarded analyst of Congressional Races. His paid-subscription newsletter is not widely circulated, but is must reading for political journalists and Congressional-Candidate-Committee-types, and for anyone else who depends on the state of the balance of power in the House.
In his analysis, Rothenberg notes that “"Cong. Don Sherwood has had plenty of problems",” and he calls Chris Carney "“an interesting challenger." He says that Sherwood'’s grip on the District is "“tenuous."” Rothenberg concludes that "This is a very interesting Democratic opportunity and a GOP headache in a very Republican district."
In short, this is major good news for the Carney folks. Sherwood, if not on, is stumbling towards the ropes. (That is a picture of not-his-wife, by the way.)
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