Dems abandoning leadership advice

The Hill ^ | 08/16/09 01:30 PM [ET] | Jared Allen

[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.”

[mojitojoe]

Why not, our Governor, Charlie Crist took a wife.... A FEMALE!
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Word is little Charlie has some cute little friends he hangs out with in Key West. Whether it’s true or not, I have no clue but where there’s smoke there’s fire.

[NotSoModerate]

It ain’t over yet.

By the way, WHERE’S COLIN POWELL HIDING THESE DAYS? Why isn’t he supporting Obama on this? Shows you Powell will be there when everyone’s happy, but when the going gets tough he disappears.

[airborne]

The protests worked!

Correction! THE PROTESTS ARE WORKING!

WE HAVE TO KEEP THE PRESSURE UP!

We need to all get out on September 12 and apply even more pressure on Congress!

They fear unemployment even more than they fear Obama. Time for us to put the fear of God in them!

If you can't get to DC, find a local rally and let your voice be heard!

Don't let history record that, when faced with evil, you did nothing!

SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR!

[JPG]

So Huma opted in the end for a Weiner? Maybe Hill is now sleeping with a piece of carpet for consolation.

[wiggen]

she was there so she’d be unavailable to go to North Korea. She would have insisted,Kim would have said no,Bill was going to have to go anyway(although,maybe they’d have gone together?)but by her being in Africa it avoided a messy confrontation.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Liberal Republicans won’t bring Conservative change. Never has, never will.

[GOPsterinMA]

THAT’S FUNNY!!! 2 Thumbs up!!!

[GOPsterinMA]

Will the carpet match the drapes?

[MeekOneGOP]

Excerpt:

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.

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Pingin' my General Interest and TEXAS Lists cuz I thought you'd wanna know!

Ping! Ping! Ping!

[MeekOneGOP]

bump, Phil !!!

[Liz]

TEXAS ALERT--now is the time to come to the aid of your country, Texas

NOTE WELL Keep in mind that elected officials are held to a higher legal authority---what is acceptable behavior for citizens might be a crime for elected legislators under oath of office.

ITEM If Roxana Mayer signed on to speak at Jackson Lee's townhall using a false identity, that could be actionable. The imposter, Roxana Mayer, is a former Texas delegate for Obama, whose name is listed on Obama's campaign web page. Mayer doesn't even live in Jackson Lee's district. This should be reported to the FBI.

WORKING THESIS It appears Jackson Lee colluded to deceive constituents and facilitated ID theft. The FBI should interrogate Jackson Lee to determine if Roxana Mayer received anything of value to pull off the deception---money, jobs, political cover to facilitate the deception, and whether they colluded to misuse Congessional influence.

FBI TIP PAGE http://tips.fbi.gov/ (you may remain anonymous)

POSSIBLE CHARGES FACED BY JACKSON LEE Official acts prohibited, misuse of Congressional funds, abuse of public office, violating oath of office, misuse of government position, abuse of government power; conflict of interest; influence buying; conspiracy to deceive; misuse of elective office. Lee's official campaign finance records filed with the FEC, and state election commission, should be scrutinized for possible violations. Determine if names of Lee's contributors are legit and whether Lee illegally used campaign funds, and whether Lee received campaign contributions to influence Conressional votes.

FBI TIP PAGE http://tips.fbi.gov/ (you may remain anonymous)

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FOR YOUR REFERENCE Did Jackson Lee deliberately raise more money than she needed, then divert some of the excess in a series of generous donations to non-profit groups that, on the surface, benefited their mutual causes? Lee’s donations to non-profits might then be illegally converted, then funneled back to Jackson Lee‘s campaign coffers through donations by the N/P officers and their co-conspirators, or subsets of them

These complicated transactions should draw scrutiny in legal and political circles to determine the extent to which state laws and campaign finance laws were violated in schemes that appear to launder donations to a candidate.

Campaign donations by publicly held companies might also raise questions that should be investigated re shareholders in publicly-funded corporations who may have been deceived, and whether the true destination of corporate money was concealed (SEC is interested in this).

Jackson Lee may also have used non-profit, ethnic, hyphenated, or faith-based groups as middlemen for campaign transactions by a pattern of Jackson Lee funneling money from government-run organizations to these different groups, that was laundered, then landed back in Jackson Lee's campaign accounts, in order to obscure, if not cover-up, the original source of donations to her campaign coffers.

Jackson Lee, her family, or her supporters might also have directed that campaign donations be made in the names of others without their knowledge or consent. When the financial merry-go-round stopped, non-profit, ethnic, hyphenated, and faith-based individuals---the groups Jackson Lee needs to endorse her election effort---end up with a lot of money, some of which was then laundered, illegally converted, then funneled back into Jackson Lee’s campaign coffers.

Millions of dollars in donations to Jackson Lee might never have been disclosed to campaign regulators, because the type of government groups Jackson Lee used weren’t governed by federal law. The public-spirited donors might not always have known where their tax-deductible money was headed, and don't control funds once they're donated. Money gets transferred all the time and remains disclosed only to the extent required to be disclosed by applicable state and federal law.

In another variation, Jackson Lee may have conspired to raise more money than was needed and then routed some of that money to other causes, such as supporting state candidates. As a result, Jackson Lee and her family might be beneficiaries, as a collateral effect, due to influence-peddling.

There might be a pattern of disguising the original source of money in an effort to hide Jackson Lee’s simultaneous financial and legislative dealings with campaign contributors and/or Jackson Lee’s family, and their business connections. Clandestine meetings may have been held in order to gain access and push the clients' interests, and to hide the genesis of campaign funding.

FBI TIP PAGE http://tips.fbi.gov/ (you may remain anonymous)

LEE "Pepperoni? MAYER "Ummm...I love it."

"Make that three double pepperoni pizzas, four gallons of Pepsi,
and three loaves of garlic bread. And deliver it in 10 minutes, after
I get rid of these annoying constituents. I'm starved. "

LEE "Time to party."

[MeekOneGOP]

bumpski !!!

[chris_bdba]

That should be the next target, getting ACORN out of the census and should be added to the topics screamed about at townhalls! it ain’t all over yet, keep mking noise until we make the liberal run screaming back to Mommie basment!

[chris_bdba]

Uh OH, you mean Huma got her a Weiner? Sorry I couldn’t resist!

[SunkenCiv]

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... Pelosi's... 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... 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."

[Caipirabob]

Hillary is halfway on her way to the mental hospital after being dumped by Huma.

Really? She dumped her? No wonder hillary is so nasty and PO'd....

[Caipirabob]

Hillary is halfway on her way to the mental hospital after being dumped by Huma.

Really? She dumped her? No wonder hillary is so nasty and PO'd....

[Arrowhead1952]

I think some real Americans are starting to realize the mistakes made in Nov. 2008. Bout time!

[Arrowhead1952]

I wish that would be in every paper and on every tv network for several weeks, but you and I know the SRM would never do anything to hurt the 0ne.

[Kimberly GG]

...”members are publicly fending for themselves.”...

YEP! And meantime, while they face our wrath, they see Obama’s allowed to hold his FAKE Town Halls surrounded by CHEER LEADERS!