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LIVE: Boccieri supports health overhaul
WEWS-TV ^ | 03/19/2010 | Elizabeth Steck

Posted on 03/19/2010 8:24:04 AM PDT by mak5

U.S. Representative John Boccieri (D-Alliance) announced Friday that he will support the health care bill.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsnet5.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: douche; obamacare; ohio
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To: mak5

No doubt these last minute no-vote reversals will receive high paying Federal jobs after they are soundly voted out of office.


21 posted on 03/19/2010 8:40:59 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: mak5

John Boccieri (D), Ohio Voted Yes on Stupak, NO on Health Care.Contact info - DC office (202) 225-3876 - Fax - (202) 225-3059 (330) 489-4414, Local Fax - (330) 489-4448


22 posted on 03/19/2010 8:41:52 AM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: truthkeeper

Yep, these democrat congresscritters don’t have the slightest concern for their constituents. All they care about it maintaining a good relationship with the democrat establishment so they can get a cushy, high-paying job at some think tank or college after they ultimately lose an election some day. The liberals are totally corrupt now, with no concern for their country and the future of our nation. It’s all about them and their miserable little careers. They will go down in history as trivial people with no courage, no intelligence, and no leadership ability.


23 posted on 03/19/2010 8:43:55 AM PDT by your local physicist (If the Canadians and Brazilians can drill for oil safely off their Atlantic coast, why can't we?)
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To: Army Air Corps

That would be my question. I hope Sen. Coburn keeps his pledge to them to hold up any nomination.


24 posted on 03/19/2010 8:45:42 AM PDT by mak5
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To: mak5

Pelosi still needs a Kosmas/Boyd/Scott Murphy to get to 216...per NationalReview.com


25 posted on 03/19/2010 8:47:23 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: mak5
These last minute hold outs coming out saying they will vote FOR it doesn't bode well... if they thought that it would be defeated ... why would they stick their necks out and publicly say they would have voted for it, only to have it defeated, but still have to defend that decision in the election?

If the vote was truely in doubt... 10 or more blue dogs would stay undecided until the actual vote, then simultaneously flip once it hits the magic number.

26 posted on 03/19/2010 8:47:54 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: Blue Turtle

I doubt it. I’m sure they have enough votes to pass this monstrosity of legislation. Media reports that they’re short of votes are lies deliberately leaked by the Dem leadership in an attempt to keep the American people quiet and preserve their yes votes for the final vote. I’m afraid this disaster is going to pass and the only way to ultimately stop it is for the GOP to take control of the House in November and then repeal the whole thing.

From what I just read, this bill contains tax increases on investment income earned by upper income people to pay for medicare. Those taxes, along with the end of the Bush tax cuts, are going to push the total marginal tax rate on investment income up over 50% for high income people in many states. That’s a disastrous idea for America. Who does Pelosi think are the risk-taking investors who build the new companies that have created all the news jobs in American since 1981? It’s not the gangbangers, union slobs, and government bureaucrats who invest in new companies and build our economy. It’s the high income entrepreneurs and investors who create economic growth. Pelosi, Reid, and Zero know zilch about economics and free enterprise. They are socialists who only know how to screw over productive people, steal their income and wealth, and redistribute it to unproductive slobs who never worked in school, never built up their skills & knowledge, and can’t get good jobs now.

We must take control of the House in 2010 and repeal this monstrosity and the associated tax increases and income redistribution schemes, and send idiotic Nancy back to SF to be just another dumb democrat congresscritter.


27 posted on 03/19/2010 8:49:40 AM PDT by your local physicist (If the Canadians and Brazilians can drill for oil safely off their Atlantic coast, why can't we?)
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To: Paperdoll

If they think so, they’re chumps. The day after the election (in fact, by Monday) they are useless to Obama and he won’t give them anything.

Lots of these Congressmen don’t know how the Chicago Way works.


28 posted on 03/19/2010 8:49:57 AM PDT by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for, it matters who takes office.)
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To: AmishDude

Oh B, I think you;ve got it!


29 posted on 03/19/2010 8:53:30 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: mak5

Everytime they peel off a YES, another NO steps forward. They are making very little progress.

However, I hear they are back to negotiating with Stupak.


30 posted on 03/19/2010 8:58:23 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: TexasFreeper2009
These last minute hold outs coming out saying they will vote FOR it doesn't bode well

That's the idea. Wear us down. Wear the other wavering Dems down. They didn't get Cao. That is big. No bipartisan cover.

31 posted on 03/19/2010 8:59:40 AM PDT by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for, it matters who takes office.)
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To: boxerblues

As a citizen of the 16th district, I apologize.
I didn’t vote for this clown and I never will.

Shortly before the election in 2008, a foreigner came to the door one evening, urging us to vote for this tool and BHO. The non-American on my porch claimed John Bought-cheri was a war hero and deserved my vote.

Interesting reasoning since he felt John McCain’s service to my country didn’t matter.

At least I now might have an option: http://www.renacciforcongress.com/Issues/Health_Care


32 posted on 03/19/2010 9:13:36 AM PDT by Gun142 (Where Will You Be When You Get Where You're Going? -- Jerry Clower)
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To: AmishDude
My point is that there is no reason for someone who knows they will lose in November to vote for this (or announce that they will) unless they know for sure that it is going to pass.

It's one thing to lose your job to push something through you truely believe in... it's something else entirely to lose it for nothing.

Undecideds ANOUNCING to me.. says they now have the votes... but maybe your right and they are just trying to be cleaver and trick to the others into flipping also.

33 posted on 03/19/2010 9:13:43 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: Retired Greyhound

They’ll pass the monstrosity. All the reports of a lack of votes are disinformation intended to keep the American people quiet and uninformed until they suddenly schedule a final vote and jam the bill through congress. These liberals have no respect for productive, hard-working Americans. This is all about them and their miserable little careers.


34 posted on 03/19/2010 9:15:46 AM PDT by your local physicist (If the Canadians and Brazilians can drill for oil safely off their Atlantic coast, why can't we?)
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To: mak5

Rep Boccieri of Ohio is giving his SOB story to justify this OBAMANATION that is being FORCED down the throats of Americans.

You betcha Rep Boccieri, tell us how FORCING Americans to buy health insurance is LEGAL, RIGHT, and CONSTITUTIONAL, go for it!


35 posted on 03/19/2010 9:24:44 AM PDT by TheDailyChange (Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
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To: Paperdoll

Do they not get another federal pension also? These are multi-million dollar payoffs.


36 posted on 03/19/2010 9:24:49 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Gun142

Mine is Latroutte, semi sane and for the most part a Conservative....I have burning his staff ear forever it seems but I dont care. His staff today was less than polite as the first words they spoke are “He is voting NO” before I could even ask lol


37 posted on 03/19/2010 9:31:48 AM PDT by boxerblues
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To: mak5
Boccieri will likely end up a one-termer. He is from Youngstown, and did not run for Traficant's seat when it was open, preferring to stay in Ohio state politics. He carpetbagged to the 16th District when incumbent Republican Ralph Regula retired.

Boccieri is a pro-union, pro-choice Catholic Democrat who models his politics on Dick Gephardt. He aligned with the Blue Dogs only because he was in a red district.

I think fake Blue Dogs in red districts who won on Obama's coattails in 2008 will find it very hard running this year. Alan Grayson is toast. Eric Massa has imploded, and will likely be replaced by a Republican in the special election. Bill Owens' election is a fluke and he will be toast.

Even the NO vote holdouts will find things tough. Parker Griffith has already flipped parties. Bobby Bright is toast regardless of how he votes.

38 posted on 03/19/2010 9:38:00 AM PDT by magellan
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To: Gun142

Yes, same here. I didn’t vote for him either. This makes me sick. he is toast-I hope.


39 posted on 03/19/2010 9:38:31 AM PDT by arbee4bush ( "promoted by GOD to be a mother" Palin 2012!!!!!)
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To: mak5

Neutered by Nancy.


40 posted on 03/19/2010 9:46:49 AM PDT by floriduh voter (I heart Adam Lambert from American Idol Season 2009. He's gay. Get over it.)
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