Posted on 08/16/2009 12:38:41 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Dems abandoning leadership advice By Jared Allen Posted: 08/16/09 01:30 PM [ET] An August in which Democrats were supposed to return home to sell the merits of a universal healthcare plan has turned into one where members are publicly fending for themselves.
Some have even shunned the talking points and tactics their leaders encouraged them to use to gin up support for the Democratic healthcare bill as they’ve engaged with sometimes hostile constituents.
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) recently lashed out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) recommended talking points aimed at the insurance industry, and criticized her approach in a letter to a local private insurance company, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.
“Regrettably, with passions inflamed throughout the country, Speaker Pelosi recently made inflammatory statements that assailed the character of health insurers across the board. I unequivocally reject those misguided comments,” Yarmouth wrote to the CEO of Louisville-based Humana, the paper reported this week.
Democrats unveiled a line of attack against the private insurance industry after the House failed to move a healthcare bill before August recess, an attack President Barack Obama has taken up in recent days. Pelosi called insurers the “villains” of the healthcare reform debate.
Even Democrats who are not part of the central leadership team were confident that attacking the insurance industry would play well, even in districts where members were due to face a backlash against “socialized medicine.”
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Isn't Weiner Jewish and Huma is obviously a Muslim with deep roots in the "muslim" religion. Wonder if her father or family or muzzie zealots are going to do an "honor" killing of Huma for marrying an infidel, let alone a Jew??? How does she get off???
If the GOP can’t take back both houses of Congress in 2010, it’s their own damned fault!!
I honestly don’t think the GOP wants to lead...it’s much easier for them to nip at the Dems and be perpetual bench warmers.... i don’t think the ‘Pubs believe in what they say they stand for... it’s much easier to pass out treats to your constituents...not so easy to shrink gov’t when everything is controlled by money....they talk a good game...Newt is the King of that.
Nancy Paloser kind of looks like “Pris” in Blade Runner.
I truly wish i was as optimistic as you...i would sleep better ;)
I believe that also.
God i wish we could trade Shelby for another Sessions.
We need a win to keep our people working against this Marxist coup in progress. We are the producers, and members of whole families who monitor our kids’ activities and behaviors and instill ethical, moral values in them and teach them to be honest and fair with other people, keep them involved in healthy, wholesome activities so they stay out of trouble. We design and engineer and keep the power and the water and the food flowing. Without us, the bloodsucking parasites who stand against us are screwed, and somewhere deep down inside their selfish, treacherous hearts they know it. Without us, they will have the anarchy they claim they want. And now they have gone too far and pissed us off big time.
The giant is awake now.
When times get tough, the Purists get purer.
Thanks for the ping!
Say what, Huma left sHrill? I saw nothing in the check-out counter rags...tis but a spat?
Yes, indeed. The profits made by the insurers owe much to the way that Medicare and other forms of federal intervention have driven up the costs of medicine nationally. They have plenty of money to buy off state legislatures.
Ann, please explain how voting for a RINO advances conservatism. A RINO is nothing more than a demrat—albeit somewhat less aggressive in separating me from my money.
Therefore, voting for RINO equals voting for a demrat. It really is just that simple.
The problem is that the SRM will never report this on the networks. They will make up and report lies about people like Sarah Palin, but never report the truth about the liberals.
yeah right.....a RINO NEVER votes right.....I got it! Better to have a FLAMING LIBERAL DEMOCRAT....right. YOU and YOURS are the reason we have what we have...... wanting PURITY will give you DEMOCRAT CONTROL .
it aint over yet.
Obama is going to push like a mad man when they get back and so will Nazi pelosi
Wow...I never thought of it that way. Maybe Hilary ‘counseled’ them, since she was SO good at handling her own marriage.
HAHAHHAHA!!!
This is the age of the web------a most powerful tool to get out the news WE WANT.
All of the media outlets are dying on the vine like so many rotten bananas.
“She’s marrying CongressCritter Anthony Weiner”
So,,, she’s gonna be Huma Weiner?
Why don’t you work to have the GOP support conservative candidates? RINO=Demrat.
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