edited by: Lisa Mossie,
Pennsylvania Editor
I am going to my parents' house early tomorrow morning, going down to the basement, pulling out my boxes of activist materials, pulling out my voter registration forms, and changing my party affiliation.Talking Heads live:
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Dear everyone who treated me like I was stupid b/c I wouldn't support Altmire:Just passed the House with 219 Democratic votes, one Republican vote (Joseph Cao, the new guy from Louisiana) and the Stupak amendment.
Don’t mind us girls, you know how we just love to bitch about our civil rights. Bitch, bitch, bitch!
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Healthcare bill passed the house 220-215, the senate will be a tougher sell.
Read this afp post regarding passage, Keeping Tonight’s Healthcare Vote in perspective.
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Paul and the boys:
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Suicide Bombers protest lack of tolerance in America.
Alak Hussein Hallam is just an average American citizen who believes he must blow up other American citizens.
He shares this belief with dozens--or perhaps hundreds--more Al Qaeda sleeper cells that are filtering into America.
Why then, Hallam, [...]
In vein-throbbing defiance of the Pennsylvania Superior Court and Lehigh County Judge Robert Steinberg and the Pennsylvania State Police, Lehigh County District Attorney (for now) Jim Martin is maintaining his hard-line stance that it's appropriate to pay citizen informants to have sex at massage spas as many' [...] 
Time to chastise bloggers about their bad language!
Or, conversely, it might be Howdy Doody time.
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The majority of Americans oppose abortion and government funding of abortion. Will Democrats go against the wishes of their constituents to appease the abortion-on-demand industry in the guise of health care reform?
I just called Doyle's office and encouraged him to vote NO on Stupak's legislation!In today’s closed-door caucus meeting, President Obama urged House Dems to grasp the magnitude of the historical moment, telling them they were on the cusp of an achievement as momentous as Social Security and Medicare, a House Dem who was there tells me.
“He said, `This is it. [...]
Tom Coburn, who ran on the platform that there were lesbians in lavatories all over Oklahoma and when asked couldn't explain why that was relevant to the Senate race, turns out to be the one who's been blocking veterans' benefits bills for months. (Via [...]
No one’s money must touch anyone else’s money that might be used for an abortion, but no one ever asks me how I feel about my money being used to kill civilians in the Middle East. Oh well, they’re the moral ones, I must be missing something.
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PHOTO INDEX: OUR INTERVIEW LOGO. PHOTO INDEX: OUR INTERVIEW LOGO. The Republicans are obstructing any way they can this morning. Watch the videos.
The way I feel about this compromise vote is probably akin to how Thomas Jefferson felt when the anti-slavery clause was stricken from the Declaration of Independence in order to get enough votes to pass.
Stupak probably [...]
Rep. Pitts discusses a bipartisan amendment to the healthcare bill keeping federal funds from flowing to abortion providers.
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Guest Post from Adam who made it down to D.C. On Thursday (pictures below).
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After taking the day off to visit my senators and congressman yesterday, I am left, probably more worried than I was during the drive to the Capitol. Following a chilly drive to the metro [...]
A good, if rather depressing article from The Atlantic. The author is wrong, I think, about a lot of things, but right about the most important one: That our present system of incentives in the health care system causes some very strange distortions.
And in his fantasy of everyone [...]
But hey, the Catholic Church is happy! Tough noogies for anyone who isn’t a Catholic…
[...]Governor wants school districts to stop charging fees for swine flu vaccine…
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The Republican Jewish Coalition supported Arlen Specter for many years because he was a Republican. Now he is not a Republican so there is no reason that RJC should support Senator Specter over the Republican challengers. Pat Toomey or Peg Luksik, neither have presented to RJC. [...]
Our political royalty deserves nothing but the best. Gulfstream jets for summer overseas travel seems to be the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette would have approved. But the Pentagon disapproves of “additives”.
US Representative John Murtha and the Congressional Gulfstream [...]
John Perzel
Dennis Roddy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette delivers more details on John Perzel’s very likely Bonusgate indictment and the basis for the indictment. The multi-million dollar GCR phony “constituent service” computer contract that was used for private, partisan political campaign to maintain and enhance [...]
The same thing as Altmire.
Check out a side-by-side comparison of the Pelosi bill with alternatives offered by House Republicans by clicking 
If you're going into the water,....
