Posted on 03/19/2010 1:19:40 PM PDT by SE Mom
This could be very big. Rep. Jason Altmire (D., Penn.) has done his darndest to position himself as the deciding vote on health-care reform, and I predicted earlier this week that he would end up voting with the majority either way.
Congressman Jason Altmire will vote against the latest version of health care reform when the U.S. House of Representatives votes on the bill this weekend.
Altmire confirmed that he has decided to vote no in a telephone conversation with KDKA political editor Jon Delano.
The McCandless Democrat is expected to post a statement on his website later today.
In a live interview on KDKA-TV News at 6 on Tuesday, Altmire said his constituents would help him make the final decision.
"I'm deciding it by doing everything I possibly can to hear what they have to say," he said. "The rallies at my office, the phone calls, emails, and letters that are coming in to Washington and in the district."
Altmire voted against the House health care plan last November.
But again, who knows!
Nice...VERY nice :)
So Pelosi gave Altmire permission to vote no again. Guess she doesn’t need his vote.
I've been thinking that ever since I heard that Fazio switched to no.
I've gotten through to Altmire's people 4 or 5 times in the past couple of days. It's been harder today, but I've done better with the Aliquippa and Natrona Heights offices than with DC. His people have been very gracious. I've been honest with them about being from PA-13 rather than his district, but they've said they'd pass along my remarks. Hopefully they have.
Glad you enjoy the posts...I do go on from time to time.
and on that note, I just posted this on Facebook so for your smiling pleasure I present....
MY LIFE WITH NANCY PELOSI
And if I had I certainly would not be proud of it.
However, I did know Nancy Pelosi oncit upon a time and , well I’m not proud of it. Still, it’s an interesting story.
Nancy Pelosi used to be Nancy D’Alesandro. Her father was Mayor of Baltimore. MY father was a big union guy in the local Brotherhood of Carpenters chapter (101) and very involved in Baltimore politics.
I grew up in Baltimore, in an area known as Morrell Park, not too far from Little Italy. Pelosi’s family lived in Little Italy. I spent much of my childhood very involved in local politics but you should smile. Because as a young child I recall on every local election day we would go down town and my father’s job was to zap all the voting booth counts. Back in those days voting booths were metal affairs that had little metal handle things. The voter would pull these handles down under the candidate for whom they wished to vote…boom, boom, boom. Once all the desired handles were pulled, a big lever below the little handle things would be pulled in a big circular motion and the votes were registered in the back of the machine.
I don’t think these things were electronic. I think the votes were counted by some kind of springwire trip kind of thing. A lot of my childhood toys had this kind of device and maybe I’m being unclear but I was what…maybe 7, 8 years old before we moved out of the city?
My father and his union buddies somehow zapped all those vote counts out of the counter thing, I don’t know how. Then they would go in the booths and cast votes as directed by Mayor Tommy D’Alesandro to an end that he desired. One year me and my brother even got to go into the booth and pull the little levers and the big round thing final recording lever over and over, under the explicit directions of my father that we only vote for whoever D’Alesandro wanted. We’d drive to various voting places as directed by D’Alesandro, and so did all the other union guys.
Heh.
Hey, I didn’t know what the hell it was all about but you folks in Merryland, if you think your vote counts forgetaboutit.
My father did carpenter work on D’Alesandro’s house (I’m sure I’m spelling that name wrong). Me and my brother were often in the D’Alesandro house, I don’t know why but I do know my mother worked at the White Tower night work so maybe he took us along cause he needed to watch us.
I saw Mayor D’Alesandro’s daughter Nancy quite often.
Like I said, I don’t remember ever speaking to her although I heard her speak often. She was a teenager at the time while I was about 8 or 9 years younger, if I’ve got that right. Nancy went to Catholic school, not sure which one but I remember how perfect the pleats were in her uniform and how I admired those perfect pleats. I too attended Catholic school at the time and the pleats in my uniform were always coming undone and I used to wonder how Nancy D’Alesandro kept her pleats so perfect. Funny how little kids think but I still remember being a little obsessed with those pleats.
I remember her talking to her mother, just normal stuff, how was her day. She talked to her father quite a bit and he gave her whatever she wanted. He’d tell her she couldn’t go somewhere and she’d pout and ask prettyplease and that kind of thing. I don’t recall any other children in that house so I think Nancy might have been an only child. But I could be wrong.
I don’t know what my father’s relationship with Mayor D’Alesandro was but in due course my father did rise high within the union. I’m thinking the Mayor paid him well for his carpentry work, I dunno.
So that’s it. A big nothing but here I am almost 60 and Nancy’s looking at age 70. She still looks pretty good for her age, she’s always neat. Nancy D’Alesandro was nothing if not always neat and pleat-perfect.
She was raised in a surround of corruption and guess what?
On that she hasn’t changed a bit either.
Yes !!
A great turn of events if it turns out to be true!
Seriously....they lose perspective, no?
How much could a checkup with a Urologist cost...maybe a test? Even if a couple hundred bucks...if he couldn’t afford health insurance premiums even paying for this wouldn’t bankrupt most people.
It’s like folks forget that they could, just throwing it out there, PAY for health care.
Abortion, here’s another one.
Putting aside for a sec any moral objection we might have, and I don’t discount it, but an abortion cost about $500, maybe a bit more. It’s not a bank-breaker for God’s sake and let me throw this thought out there....USE OF BIRTH CONTROL WOULD HAVE AVOIDED THE NEED COMPLETELY, what a concept.
The pubs need to jump on this abortion thing. First, more and more are against abortion for moral and/or religious reasons than ever before, thank ultrasound for this. Second, birth control...jeez, a patch, on the hip, good for a month...why is this so damn difficult? Third, well now gee whiz, you wouldn’t want to use my taxpayer dollars to pay for your birth control...ie abortion...now would ye?
Americans get this. This obsession to include abortion in this health care thing is about the commies at Planned Parenthood and nothing less.
If it passes, a no vote will not save them. Altmire will be toast.
Yes. The nun says the language is fine, that taxpayer funds won’t be used for abortion. Then why don’t they let Stupak tighten up the language? Because they KNOW and WANT abortion to be covered.
He was a no from November, but Code Red had him listed as “yes” at least since yesterday. Maybe before then.
He’d better watch his back ... literally.
IMHO if that was the case they would be voting right now.
I hope you folks are right. Serioustly, I get sick to my stomach imagining what this boondoggle will do to our healthcare system and our economy.
There is one other possibility here. The votes might already be there and he may have been given the go ahead to claim that he’s against the bill and thus a big hero. Hope I’m wrong.
RE: Keep praying for Divine Intervention
God help preserve our Republic. Amen
Pelosi said she’s praying to St. Joseph. I consider that blasphemy.
I am praying to St. Joseph too. But for the defeat of this monstrosity.
I will say though that if we get the Divine Intervention we ask for, we better clean up our country through prayer, good works and getting rid of the filth that’s there every day.
Hang tough.
Thanks dear Dog...am surely trying to do that.
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