Posted on 03/16/2010 6:22:01 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Congressman Jason Altmire was just on Fox News. They hyped it up like he would finally make a decision. He didn't. All he did was firmly decide that he hadn't decided but he comes off as a FRAUD since you can tell he will vote Yes but is stringing his constituents along to make them think he is somehow undecided.
Ditto the other people mentioned. at the Tea Partiers Code Red Alert.
They’re back to playing phone games, acting like they can’t hear you, hanging up, sending you to VM or a FAX line.
He is annoying. I’m not in his district, but close to it, and the local talk station is playing non-stop commercials targeting him and his “non-decision.”
There will be a rally today at 4PM at his local Aliquippa office, and I imagine a lot of tea party and 9-12 folks will be there.
Wait till those seniors get to vote in his district!
Looks like he might have been wearing women’s panties.
PJ, they want the handwringing. As long as the American people are unsettled and worried, they are happy.
I am to the point, I don’t care anymore. I am going to what I want. Put me in jail, and I won’t have to pay any more of their oppressive taxes.
I actually was quite impressed with his answers - IF he was telling the truth. Which I think he was ... I don’t think they have the votes and it’s people like Altmire who are making the difference.
We need to be supporting anyone that is pushing back against this administration and their intent on talking over healthcare.
A grandstanding fraud who pretends to publicly “agonize” over a decision which we already know to be “YES.” The ONLY reason he appeared on FOX was too many people already know how he will vote so he still wants some credit for his public “agonization.”
Saw it. In my opinion, the whole “blue-dog”/moderate dem thing is a big fat fraud. They’re going to vote with the pack. They’re just toying with their kill before they devour it.
Resume enhancer for DemocRats.....
He's a DemocRat, therefore everything he said was a lie. Their entire ideology is based on lies and deceit. Believe a DemocRat at your own peril.....
Didn’t sound like much of a pushback to me. Sounded like he’s got his finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.
He “hopes” the abortion language will be removed.
If it appears that this thing will not pass, don’t be surprised to see all these squishes jumping ship and voting no. IMO, it would lose by 20 votes or so.
This slime bucket is a Pelosi pocket vote. The bastard will vote yes only if needed. PA kick his fascist butt out.
Altmire blew me off when I wrote to him because I’m not in his district.
Fine. When he comes up for re-election, I will vigorously support whoever the Republican challenger is.
Same with my own representative.
He must like the national attention. He said he has the most Medicare patients in the country. I don’t get it. He should just say no.
I think the undecideds at this point are just chickens playing “You go first” they are all waiting for each other to make a move into the yes or no column, and when they feel their is momentum one way or another they will jump on the bandwagon. That’s why I would like to see a few more definite “no’s”, I think if it look certain the bill will fail you will see all the undecideds quickly jump into the no column, unfortunately the same goes for “yes”. This also explains the administrations “psychological warfare” on the weekend news shows saying, “It’s a done deal.” “Law of the land by next Sunday.” to build the illusion of a strong momentum toward yes. Fortunately it does not seem to have worked...
I think you are 100% right.
What is going on now is media hype, trying to make vulnerable Congressional Rats look like they are torn about what they are going to do, and trying to figure out who is least vulnerable to take electoral “hits” and deciding what the Marxist Muslim Bastard in the White House be offering them for their vote in case they do loose their jobs.
They have the votes.
It will be approved.
The GOP needs to hang tough, fight this bill in the courts and tie it up in litigation in the Federal Courts, until they have the votes in Congress after November to rescind it and cripple the Marxist Muslim Bastard until he is either impeached or defeated at the polls.
I saw it and yelled”Liar” at the TV (for all the good it did). He didn’t even flinch when a poll said that 53% of his constituents would not vote for him if he voted for the Senate bill, with abortion. He “trusts” the Senate will make the changes.
These people in Versailles on the Potomac are supposedly our representatives. THEY ARE NOT. They are there to advance their own agenda - a fact that Sen. Carper (RAT-DE)admitted to me in a letter! THEY DON’T GIVE A TINKER’S DAM WHAT WE THE PEOPLE SAY.
Soapbox has done nothing to stop them. The ballot box is corrupted by the counters. Jury box is less and less reliable. The criminals and traitors are pushing us to our last resort.
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