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

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0bamacare; 111th; bho44; insuranceindustry; pelosi
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To: Arrowhead1952

Near the END of this short YouTube ...

Oprah and Obama! I Oh No... Part 2.. GloZell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TswMeHnh2cA

... she says somethin’ about:

“Is is too late to vote for the White guy?” LOL !!


81 posted on 08/16/2009 6:42:37 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Thanks a bunch, meekie. That is going out to a LOT of Hussein voters tomorrow!


82 posted on 08/16/2009 6:48:12 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

:^D


83 posted on 08/16/2009 6:51:44 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

We need term limits. Put it on the ballot. Let’s vote on it....Get these bast*rds out of there, all of them...


84 posted on 08/16/2009 6:52:49 PM PDT by nikos1121 (praying for -13)
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To: mojitojoe

It’s been an open secret for years.

Gays are very much involved with top Rs in DC as well.

At least R 4 senators, a former Sec of State, whole bunch of R Congresscritters, Chiefs of Staff of most of the top HOR Rs when we ran things (till ‘06), a man consdered to replace Denny Hastert as Speaker at one point, and more.

They are everywhere.


85 posted on 08/16/2009 6:56:31 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Never Kick Leftists When They Are Down. Let Them Halfway Back Up. You Get Much Better Leverage!)
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To: jimbo123

OK...for those as out of the loop as I am, I had to look up ‘Huma.’ I never heard of this woman (yeah...I’m really out of the loop.)

So I went to a ‘reliable’ source—wikipedia (LOL), and looked up Huma. It came up with Huma Abedin. This is what it says (uh...what’s a ‘body woman’?):

“Huma M. Abedin (born 1976) is an aide to United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton[1] who served as traveling chief of staff and “body woman” during Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election.[2][3]

Abedin was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her Indian born father was a Muslim and Middle Eastern scholar who died when she was 17 years old, and her Pakistani born mother is a professor in Saudi Arabia.[1] At the age of two, her family relocated to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Abedin returned to the United States to attend George Washington University. She was elected to serve as President of the Pakistani Student Association at GW for the 1995-96 term, and with her Vice President, MS student Abbas Zaidi, lobbied in favor of the Pressler Amendment at Capitol Hill in the late summer of 1995.

Huma Abedin began working as an intern for the White House in 1996 and landed an assignment with the First Lady. She has since risen to the role of Hillary Clinton’s right-hand woman. She currently works for Clinton at the State Department.[4]

She is currently engaged to Rep. Anthony Weiner.[5]”


86 posted on 08/16/2009 7:07:55 PM PDT by USAHOME
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To: jimbo123

I could just read your post over and over....:))


87 posted on 08/16/2009 7:09:34 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: prairiebreeze

read in AM


88 posted on 08/16/2009 7:25:48 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Barack Obama: Worst. President. Ever.)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Thank You for keeping us informed!!!!!


89 posted on 08/16/2009 7:47:22 PM PDT by Marty62
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To: ThunderSleeps

Can you please give me the page for the private bank acct section. I thought I had bookmarked it but can’t find it. Would be greatly appreciated.


90 posted on 08/16/2009 7:51:22 PM PDT by Marty62
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To: MeekOneGOP; Arrowhead1952
RE: The Jackson Lee legal initiative above

It might be possible to nail even Obama in Lee/Mayer's townhall scam.

POSSIBLE SCENARIO Obama ---desperate to get healthcare passed--- might have made a deal to facilitate Mayer's ID theft. They might have all colluded to offer something of value to get Mayer to assume the ID of a doctor.

Watch her closely---if she "suddenly" gets a govt job....that could be the payoff.

That's when we go into action.

91 posted on 08/16/2009 7:55:14 PM PDT by Liz (When people fear govt, we have tyranny; when govt fears the people, we have freedom.)
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To: MeekOneGOP

She is good...should have a stand up routine...funny.


92 posted on 08/16/2009 7:56:22 PM PDT by Marty62
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To: Marty62

Mah pleasure. Thank YOU! :)


93 posted on 08/16/2009 8:02:33 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: Liz

These Democr@ps with PANTS ON FIRE are NOT above
any low-down stuff to push their agenda, for sure!

We beeze on it like stink on you-know-what! :)


94 posted on 08/16/2009 8:05:46 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: Marty62

Yes, that is a good one.

It appears she puts out YT Videos on a regular basis. :)


95 posted on 08/16/2009 8:07:18 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: Dr. Ursus
Killing granny images is Obama’s Waterloo!

This image might be more appropriate. ;)

If we get tired of the ObamaJoker, someone might want to do a Psych0bama. :)

96 posted on 08/16/2009 8:15:11 PM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: IMissPresidentReagan; CourtneyLeigh; Just Kimberly; Knuckrider; MBohman; republicanbob1; jcwky; ...
A (Lou'ville) Kentucky Ping.
...seems like this "Pink Poodle"; like Ben Chandler,
Is runnin' scared....like a 'rat like a cockroach!

97 posted on 08/16/2009 8:28:05 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Zer0 to the voter: "Welcome to 'MY' DeathCARE ® Plan"...Sucker! ...now just die. :^)
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To: jimbo123
Hillary is halfway on her way to the mental
hospital after being dumped by Huma.
Life is good...

She was dropped by Huma?...
...Life Is very good.
DeathCARE, Crashed & Burning (hopefully :) Priceless.


98 posted on 08/16/2009 8:39:24 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Zer0 to the voter: "Welcome to 'MY' DeathCARE ® Plan"...Sucker! ...now just die. :^)
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To: jimbo123
Hillary is halfway on her way to the mental hospital after being dumped by Huma.

Life is good...

Yes, I agree, Life is good..... but enough of politics for the moment, HILLARY GOT DUMPED BY HUMA??? I had not heard that!!! Any good pics or juicy articles??? I bet Hillary is having an emotional meltdown after being dumped by Huma!!! I hope she erupts like a volcano against Bubba AND 0bozo, in the process of venting her rage.

99 posted on 08/16/2009 8:48:24 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: MeekOneGOP; Liz; Jeff Head

BTTT.....good work ya’ll !


100 posted on 08/16/2009 8:51:15 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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