John Boehner said once that the future of the Republican party was Rep. Joseph Cao. Eric Cantor said not one Republican would vote for the Democrat’s health reform bill. One did: Rep. Joseph Cao.
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Tennessee Editor
John Boehner said once that the future of the Republican party was Rep. Joseph Cao. Eric Cantor said not one Republican would vote for the Democrat’s health reform bill. One did: Rep. Joseph Cao.
[...]220-215. A lone Republican, Rep. Joe Cao of Louisiana voted with the Democrats for the bill. Cohen and Cooper were ayes. The Republicans and Tanner, Gordon and Lincoln Davis were nays.
“This process of drafting health care proposals has been both lengthy and healthy. I’ve received valuable [...]
House Majority Leader Jason Mumpower will rebuke Tennessee Right to Life for their endorsement of Ty Cobb over Pat Marsh in the District 62 special election in a letter yet to be delivered:
The letter cites the group’s endorsement of Democrat Ty Cobb in a special election last month that [...]
The senior senator on the calls for banning Muslim from the military in the wake of the Ft. Hood tragedy:
When asked whether Congress needs to re-evaluate if Muslims should be in the military, Alexander said: “I think we need to step back and let the United States military make [...]
Matt Yglesias with the wisdom:
It’s worth taking a moment to appreciate the fact that in a unicameral United States of America, we would now have passed both a comprehensive health care reform bill and also the most important piece of environmental legislation in the history of the world.
Steve Sailer examines the question:
If he survives, the Ft. Hood shooter will of course be charged with murder, but it’s reasonable to inquire whether treason should also be charged. After all, for a major in the U.S. Army, trained at taxpayer expense in the use of weapons, to shoot [...]
A middle-aged right-wing reporter on the cacophony of child conservative scribes:
What I hate, however, is the disrespectful Best And Brightest tendency toward know-it-all-ism, as if high SAT scores and four years at a school where tuition is $40,000 a year entitles them to pole-vault past the dues-paying journeyman career [...]
The lefties have threatened a primary challenge and now the right-wing is upset that Rep. Jim Cooper will be voting for health care reform:
For years you paraded around the Congressional Budget. Waving it in everyone’s face when Republicans held the majorities while touting your own fiscal responsibility yet here [...]
“I think anytime unemployment is high and people are concerned about their jobs, the economy, incumbents on both sides of the aisle need to be concerned,” Republican Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker said Friday. “What people care most about is food, clothing and shelter. Period. …. When food, clothing [...]
From Politico:
Both Republicans and Democrats expect the GOP will pick up Democratic-held seats in at least two states McCain won last fall. They are Tennessee, where Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen is retiring with no obvious successor, and Kansas, where Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson is stepping down and Sen. Sam [...]
Bredesen was asked if he ever considered how he might have impacted the health care reform debate if he would have been named U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary.
Former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius got the HHS job over Bredesen.
“I feel like I have dodged a bullet,” [...]
The word from the distinguished gentleman from Knoxville:
“I am voting against this bill for many reasons, but primarily because it is both unconstitutional and unaffordable.
Our health care system is in need of major reform, but we need to go more in the direction of free enterprise, free market principles.
When [...]
“My suggestion was they all might remember the parable of the prodigal son, which had a happy ending because the son came home and he was embraced,” Alexander told reporters after a brief speech. “I think that’s about as far as I’ll go.”
Ilissa Gold notes that a significant number of both legislative and Metro Council leaders signed a letter asking Rep. Cooper to vote yes on health care reform, a vote he indicated this morning he would, in fact be making:
All of the Democrats from Nashville in the House [...]
Cohen and Cooper are ayes. Tanner and Gordon are nays. Lincoln Davis a presumed no but hasn’t said for sure. Republicans are, of course, all against.
[...]The National Republican congressional campaign committee wants to make sure you know that some of our state’s Dems voted with their party on a procedural vote on health care:
Unlike 15 other Democrats who sincerely oppose Obamacare, Tennessee Reps. Bart Gordon and John Tanner just voted to advance H.R. 3962 [...]
Brian at Six Meat Buffet on the Ft. Hood murders:
All the diversity in the world will never assimilate the person who does not believe in the goal of the team. So for everyone who likes the cliches about “diversity is our greatest strength”, please take a long look at [...]
Williams told The Associated Press at a fundraiser for his political action committee in Knoxville on Friday night that he has several colleagues working toward a decision as soon as possible.
In the Elizabethton restauranteur’s words: “I just want to know where I stand.”
From the office of Nashville’s congressman:
“I am grateful to the thousands of Nashville-area residents who have shared their opinion on health care reform with me. Everyone feels strongly because health care is so important to our lives. Having read the pending bills and having taught health policy at Vanderbilt [...]
