Looks like our 8th district U.S. House Rep sure didn’t “produce” any results on this one (I’ll explain the reason for the bad puns)…When fellow Republican Congressman Jeff Flake of Ohio offered 19 amendments to cut wasteful pork barrel spending, like the $180,000 program to grow hydroponic tomatoes in Ohio, Mike Fitzpatrick voted to waste our tax dollars 18 out of 19 times.Also, speaking of Mikey, I took note of the following excerpt from J.D. Mullane’s fawning column about our House Rep today:
(Source: 2006 House Roll Call Votes 190, 191, 192, 204, 205, 277, 278, 279, 280, 298, 299, 302, 304, 334, 335, 336, 337, and 338.)
But Mike Fitzpatrick voted to cut Medicare and raise Medicaid co-pays for seniors, making them pay more for health care and long-term care.
(Source: HR 4241, CQ Vote 601, November 18, 2005; S 1932, CQ Vote 670, December 19, 2005; S 1932, CQ Vote 4, February 1, 2006; Washington Post, February 1, 2006.)
Patrick Murphy will cut taxes for seniors and middle-class families, not waste money on pork-barrel projects.
To change Washington, we have to change who we send to Washington (and to make that happen, click here.)
(The preceding was authorized by the Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee.)
Fitzpatrick, running for a second term is, like most Republicans this season, in a tough race.Of course you had to find a way to invoke your hero Ronnie Baby, the person who, along with Newt Gingrich, was most responsible for sending the ship of state careening out of control until we ended up stuck on the reef, so to speak, where we currently find ourselves (righted for a time under Clinton, which you’ll never admit, but run aground by Dubya and his fellow pirates).
“The fight of my life,” Fitzpatrick said as he campaigned this week in Lower Bucks.
There are three reasons he is endangered: the war in Iraq, the war in Iraq and the war in Iraq.
This was made clear at the Levittown train station, when he introduced himself to a woman waiting for the R7.
“I'm against the war,” she said. “I can't stand Republicans and I can't stand President Bush. I know on local issues you're pretty good. But I see the big picture, and the cultural issues that we face are more important.”
“Well,” Fitzpatrick said, “vote your conscience.”
The election polls are all over. One shows him up by nine points over Democrat Patrick Murphy. Another shows a dead heat. Another shows he's behind.
If Fitzpatrick loses Nov. 7, it is because cosmopolitans like the woman at the train station outnumbered conservative Democrats. (“Reagan Democrats,” they were called in the 1980s.)
So the woman at the train station is a “cosmopolitan”? What exactly are you trying to say, J.D.? Are you trying to malign her because she’s probably well educated and has a good job (my guess would be midtown Manhattan)? So if Mikey loses (God willing), it will be the fault of people like her?
This is the sort of provincialism I’ve come to expect from you, I have to admit. I’m sorry we’re all not “lifelong Bucks Countians” like you.
And I’d also like to add something to Mikey’s comment about this election as “the fight of his life.”
As Mullane pointed out, Fitzpatrick noted that if he loses, he’ll return to his law profession (and the same is true with Patrick Murphy, presumably with Cozen O’Connor).
So regardless of what will happen, either of these candidates should have a nice cushion for a soft landing (not saying that isn’t deserved, but merely pointing out a fact).
Let me inform Congressman Fitzpatrick of something, then.
Short of seeing actual combat, I would consider “the fight of my life” to be the everyday struggle to pay the bills, raise a family, hold down a job with reasonably good benefits including health insurance, squirrel away whatever I can into a 401(k)…that sort of thing. I definitely wouldn’t apply this to a political campaign (and one of the many ways in which Patrick Murphy is a substantially better man than you is that I don’t need to point this out to him).
And all of this has been made much, MUCH harder by our Republican “leadership” via the offshoring of jobs (which this administration doesn’t track, by the way), cutting student loans, creating the infamous Medicare Part D “doughnut hole,” making it harder to file to bankruptcy, passing off the tax burden from the wealthy to the middle class…that sort of thing. That represents the fight of MY life, Mikey (and that holds true for a good many other people, I would imagine).
And you and your foul Repug congressional leadership along with President Stupid Head are the reason why the battle gets tougher every day.
Update 10/19/12: Did you ever get a creepy feeling about someone, but you just can't put your finger on what it is that you think is wrong? That's the way I feel about Flake, and this bears me out even more.
Update 11/05/12: And this does even more (what a scumbag).
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Adding my 2 cents again. When Fitzpatrick rails against "pork" he says we need the line item veto. He spoke to this recently on the levittown radio station where he gets all the free time he wants. Fact: The line item veto was given to Clinton in 93 and struck down by the Supreme Court in 96. The president cannot make law, he can pass or veto but not strike out or add to a bill passed by congress and submitted to him. That is making law.
Fact: Fitzpatrick continues to say how in 93 Clinton raised the income tax on social security benefits that seniors pay. He fails to say the republican senate voted against repealing that increase in 2003. His party, the party of cutting taxes, had the power for 6 years to repeal the tax and or the tax increase and did not.
VERY important to note that about taxing Social Security - thanks (and I don't know what happened to the whole "line item veto" issue...I think the Repugs supposedly came up with something else because The Supremes wanted more cooperation between the president and congress, and that's why they struck it down in '96; I can't recall if they came up with something else for Dubya to put his "X" on and declare victory or not. I'll check more on that later.)
For clarification let me add that the tax on social security income was imposed by the Reagan congress and he signed it into law. I hear them blame in on the Greenspan commission's recommendations. I recall Bob Dole saying "No one should have a double dip". I say why the hell not?...he has 3. The old widow with income grossing 25 thousand dollars is considered wealthy by these mindless morons.
A campaign worker defended Fitzpatrick against the failure to repeal the increase saying "he was not in office in 2003". Well sure, but he still chants the party line...blaming Clinton for the tax...he must have read Zell Millers book where he lied and said the tax itself was imposed in 93.
The line item veto was struck down as unconstitutional...it gives the president law making power which he is not given by the constitution and I mention that because if is is revisited by the supreme court it will be interesting to see if the new court will reverse decisions made by previous courts. If they do...then the court becomes redundant and proves they can put a spin on the constitution.
I suspect the line item veto issue is not looking so good to them with the chance Hillary might be president. They see the writing on the wall...maybe...and it scares them. I am glad to see something scares them. They have been scaring me for too long.
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