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Was losing my seat for Obamacare worth it? (Severe Nausea Alert)
PMSNBC ^ | 10/1/2013 | Patrick J. Murphy

Posted on 10/01/2013 11:37:35 AM PDT by mojito

How has the debate over healthcare devolved so much? I’ll be honest. Sometimes, in a reflective moment sitting in the church pew, when I’m not trying mightily to enlist my 6-year-old daughter to keep my 3-year-old son quiet, I think about whether, despite all the good it has done and will do, voting for Obamacare was worth it.

I was one of the 63 House Democrats who lost their seat in the epic 2010 election that was fueled by the Tea Party and their angst against Obamacare. I was one of those members yelled at in town halls and who received death threats and watched on TV when my colleague was shot in the head in January 2011, only months after she voted for the health care law.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bloodlibel; commiescumbag; obamacare; scumbag
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To: Responsibility2nd

That’s funny.


41 posted on 10/01/2013 1:06:35 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: pepsi_junkie

The libs use new term and word to define their issues and we let them get away with it.
I have people talk about “pro choice” and I’ll say “you mean pro abortion” and it angers them.


42 posted on 10/01/2013 1:06:59 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: mojito
[But then I think about why I cast the vote in the first place. I know I’m one of the lucky ones. I came back home from war in one piece.]

Murphy did good work in Iraq but he did it in the JAG Corps as a lawyer, often in an air-conditioned office. He was awarded a Bronze Star for non-combat “meritorious service.”

43 posted on 10/01/2013 1:07:57 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: mojito

I thought the guy who shot Giffords was a flaming democrat, progressive, liberal. Didn’t know he was a Tea party person too? Might be a different kind of tea...?


44 posted on 10/01/2013 1:10:04 PM PDT by EBH ( Freeman: A person not in slavery or serfdom.)
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To: mojito

Burn in hell murph.


45 posted on 10/01/2013 1:15:56 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: mojito

The guy is the poster child for Ron Whites’ saying “You just cant fix stupid”.


46 posted on 10/01/2013 1:21:13 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Paul Ross

You’re preaching to the choir, FRiend.
I, at least, hope that SOMEONE extra is getting a policy since my PREMIUMS went from $4200 in 2009 to $12,200 today! (HSA with $5000 deductible for two adults. One with history of cancer 8+ years ago. Of course, my insurance company lists the ACA as the reason for the premium increase for a policy that ‘qualifies as minimum essential coverage.’)
Do you think I’m ticked?


47 posted on 10/01/2013 1:28:48 PM PDT by griswold3 (Post-Christian America is living on borrowed moral heritage)
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To: mojito

Psssssst! That’s not a church pew. It’s a bar stool. And no matter what the bartender tells you, that ain’t communion wine you’re drinking.


48 posted on 10/01/2013 1:39:15 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: mojito

Im so sick of these scumbags...its war folks!

send support to the House now.

http://www.speaker.gov/contact


49 posted on 10/01/2013 1:46:37 PM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: sauropod

It never ceases to amaze me how stupid the American people have become.


50 posted on 10/01/2013 1:47:24 PM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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To: mojito
This was one of the most sickening things I have ever read. A Barf Alert doesn't do it justice.

The author of this excrement is a vile cockroach.

51 posted on 10/01/2013 2:01:42 PM PDT by RightWingNilla
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To: pepsi_junkie

More of us need to share this about Loughner http://www.texemarrs.com/012011/jared_loughner_article.htm


52 posted on 10/01/2013 2:41:29 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: mojito

Notice how the libs are all saying that Obama’s reelection three years after it’s passage was a referendum on Obamacare, and the issue is settled, but somehow the loss of 63 seats in the house the next election, when it was clearly the defining issue, isn’t?


53 posted on 10/01/2013 3:09:19 PM PDT by Hugin
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To: pepsi_junkie

NEVER say never.


54 posted on 10/01/2013 3:50:09 PM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: mojito

UGH!! Thank goodness this whiner was defeated.


55 posted on 10/01/2013 5:07:51 PM PDT by victim soul
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To: mojito
It wasn't your seat jerk. Those seats belong to the people. All of them.
56 posted on 10/01/2013 5:09:14 PM PDT by VA40
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To: mojito

I don’t know if losing your seat was worth it to you but it was damn sure worth to us to get rid of your stupid a$$!


57 posted on 10/01/2013 5:15:02 PM PDT by ontap (***)
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Jerk is just PO’ed b/c Dem voter fraud scams flopped.


58 posted on 10/02/2013 7:20:55 AM PDT by Liz
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