The aide who helped turn Rep. Michele Bachmann into a controversial mainstay of cable news has informed colleagues that she’s quitting — just as the firebrand Republican congresswoman prepares for her biggest media moment yet.
[...] A conservative Republican House member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, suggested that Bachmann’s views — and her willingness to state them — make it hard for her to keep staff.
“When your captain’s crazy, it’s time to find a new ship,” the lawmaker said.
[...] “She looks like the type of person who you would invite in to have a cup of coffee at your table,” Marston said at the time. “There are a lot of people who are good, smart, well-meaning, well-intentioned members of Congress, but they speak to the people like they are members of Congress. Rep. Bachmann talks to people like they are people.”
But when Bachmann infuriated liberals with the suggestion that then-Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats in Congress held “anti-American” views, Marston acknowledged that her boss wasn’t for everyone.
“You either love Michele Bachmann or you don’t love Michele Bachmann at all,” Marston said in an interview with POLITICO last fall.
SOURCE: Politico
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Make a House Call on November 5th
President Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Majority Leader Harry Reid think you and I are tired and losing interest. The New York Times and other media outlets are writing that the grassroots fire burned out in August and September.
Talking to many of you in recent weeks, I know that's not true. But with the health care battle at a decisive juncture, We need to take a crucial step.
Americans for Prosperity is asking you to make a "Congressional House Call" at noon on November 5 to tell your Senator or Congressman to vote NO on the Obama/Pelosi/Reid health care takeover.
As I travel the country on our Patients First bus tour and other events, folks ask me, "Tim, I've emailed and called my representatives, but what more can I do to get their attention?" This is a big way for you to get their attention. Join fellow freedom fighters in standing up one more time by going to their in-state offices on November 5 with a simple message -- "Keep your hands off my health care. Vote NO."
SOURCE: Americans for Prosperity
Talking to many of you in recent weeks, I know that's not true. But with the health care battle at a decisive juncture, We need to take a crucial step.
Americans for Prosperity is asking you to make a "Congressional House Call" at noon on November 5 to tell your Senator or Congressman to vote NO on the Obama/Pelosi/Reid health care takeover.
As I travel the country on our Patients First bus tour and other events, folks ask me, "Tim, I've emailed and called my representatives, but what more can I do to get their attention?" This is a big way for you to get their attention. Join fellow freedom fighters in standing up one more time by going to their in-state offices on November 5 with a simple message -- "Keep your hands off my health care. Vote NO."
SOURCE: Americans for Prosperity
Death Blow to Obamacare
In the coming weeks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be asking their troops to cast potentially career-ending votes for health-care changes, Medicare cuts, higher taxes and fines on the uninsured. Whether they take that risk depends on their faith in Obama's drawing power.
SOURCE: Dick Morris
SOURCE: Dick Morris
Call your Congressman November 5
Clearly, as more people read this bill and understand the harsh consequences on their health care choices, criticism grows and internal pressure to pass this bill quickly increases. Accordingly, Speaker Pelosi has planned a vote later this week to ram this through the House before more of the bill is dissected. So we need your help this Thursday, November 5 on our House Call Day to let your Congressman know that placing a bureaucrat between you and your doctor is not an option. Join millions of your fellow Americans in telling Congress to keep their Hands Off Your Health Care!
So on this election day when millions of Americans are able to give power to their voice, remember that politicians in Washington are doing their best to take away your control over what doctor and insurance options you will have. It’s more important than ever that your Senator and Congressman hear from you.
SOURCE: Patient Power
So on this election day when millions of Americans are able to give power to their voice, remember that politicians in Washington are doing their best to take away your control over what doctor and insurance options you will have. It’s more important than ever that your Senator and Congressman hear from you.
SOURCE: Patient Power
Health Care 2010?
The signs are getting more and more clear everyday as Congress chugs its way into the monh of November. And that's why it isn't too crazy to say that a health care bill probably won't make it to the White House in 2009.
In fact, I don't think it's too outrageous to suggest that the Senate won't vote on health reform until next year.
As we sat and waited for developments Tuesday on health care reform, there were rumblings that Senate Democrats won't even get cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office until next week, which is supposed to be a short work week anyway.
Then those rumblings became reality soon after.
"That's correct. No CBO scores this week," said Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) to a group of reporters just off the Senate floor.
"We're just doing our best to encourage CBO to move as quickly as possible," Baucus added.
That means the earliest a debate could begin would be the week before Thanksgiving in the Senate.
SOURCE: Jamie Dupree
In fact, I don't think it's too outrageous to suggest that the Senate won't vote on health reform until next year.
As we sat and waited for developments Tuesday on health care reform, there were rumblings that Senate Democrats won't even get cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office until next week, which is supposed to be a short work week anyway.
Then those rumblings became reality soon after.
"That's correct. No CBO scores this week," said Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) to a group of reporters just off the Senate floor.
"We're just doing our best to encourage CBO to move as quickly as possible," Baucus added.
That means the earliest a debate could begin would be the week before Thanksgiving in the Senate.
SOURCE: Jamie Dupree
42 More Pages
42 pages of changes, clarifications and additions to the House Health Reform bill were released late on Tuesday night, as Democrats try to inch their way into position for a vote on a sweeping health care reform bill.
As of early Wednesday morning, no time or date had been set for a vote in the Congress, as Democrats are still trying to cobble together the votes for a majority in the House.
Meanwhile, the release of those extra 42 pages also coincided with the release of a House Republican health reform alternative that is 219 pages long.
You can find the GOP plan at http://is.gd/4Mvgj - I will do a full blog on what's in it for tomorrow.
SOURCE: Jamie Dupree
As of early Wednesday morning, no time or date had been set for a vote in the Congress, as Democrats are still trying to cobble together the votes for a majority in the House.
Meanwhile, the release of those extra 42 pages also coincided with the release of a House Republican health reform alternative that is 219 pages long.
You can find the GOP plan at http://is.gd/4Mvgj - I will do a full blog on what's in it for tomorrow.
SOURCE: Jamie Dupree
Reid indicates timetable for health care may slip
WASHINGTON – In a blow to the White House, the Senate's top Democrat signaled Tuesday that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for passing health care legislation, leaving the measure's fate to the uncertainties of the 2010 election season.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., spoke as Democratic officials said it could be December before Senate debate begins in earnest on the issue atop President Barack Obama's domestic agenda, months after senior lawmakers and the White House had hoped. The drive to pass legislation has been plagued for months by divisions within the party's rank and file.
SOURCE: Associated Press > Yahoo News
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., spoke as Democratic officials said it could be December before Senate debate begins in earnest on the issue atop President Barack Obama's domestic agenda, months after senior lawmakers and the White House had hoped. The drive to pass legislation has been plagued for months by divisions within the party's rank and file.
SOURCE: Associated Press > Yahoo News
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