Murtha to campaign for Wulsin
From the Wulsin campaign:
October 11, 2006
MURTHA TO STUMP FOR WULSIN
Congressman John Murtha to campaign for Wulsin, hold fundraiser on Saturday afternoon
Cincinnati, Ohio – Congressman John Murtha, a national Democratic leader and a decorated war veteran, will come to Cincinnati on Saturday and stump for Dr. Victoria Wulsin, who is running for Congress in Ohio's 2nd District. Murtha will attend a rally with supporters, will hold a press conference, and then will headline a fundraiser for Wulsin.
Saturday Schedule for Murtha and Wulsin
12:30 Rally: IBEW Union Hall, 1216 E. McMillan St.
1:30 Press Conference: IBEW Union Hall
2 – 3:30 Fundraiser: Private home in Cincinnati.
Murtha, a Marine who received a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts for his service in Vietnam, has been an outspoken critic of the Bush Administration's handling of the Iraq war. On November 18, 2005, Jean Schmidt gained infamy for attacking Congressman Murtha's patriotism and bravery on the floor of the US House.
Congressman Murtha serves Pennsylvania's 12th District. He was elected to Congress in 1974, becoming the first Vietnam veteran in Congress. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserves in 1990 as a Colonel, 38 years after first joining the Corps.
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Post a Comment*That is just very sweet, hopefully he will have a few choice words for Schmidt.
More importantly, it would seeem to indicate that the Dem nat'l Committee thinks that Wulsin has achance or else they would not send in such a heavy-hitter this late in the campaign.
There is no doubt, this is going to be the sleeper !
schmidt and nate AnNoy have demonstrated just what a wRong wingnut whacko looks like !
Now, no one wants to have anything to do with them !
Not when you have "kiss my fanny" finney and "fondling" foley as misleading examples !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2006 !
SOmeone, anyone, please just beat Jean Schmidt. What an embarassment.
The assumption here is that he was sent and that he's a heavy hitter.
Campaigns request, and he won't be majority leader by a long shot.
I think your assumptions are wrong
As Vic tries to attack Medicare Part D because it enriches the drug companies she neglects to tell the voters that it is enriching her also through her investment in the Putnam Health Science Trust. As the drug companies profit, Vic profits because this fund owns all of the major durg companies. I doubt if the DCCC knows about Vic's investments in the drug companies.
What a contrast in character: Murtha sincere, affable war hero and Schmidt-a mean-spirited, spiteful do nothing.
Fitting, indeed, that the object of of Jean Schmidt's vile slander should come to the 2nd District to help her opponent.
Calling him a coward on the House floor was contemptible.
his visit now is a case of the "chicken" coming home to roost.
Serves her right!
As far as Murtha having a few choice words for Schmidt, it won't be easy because thre are too many to choose from.
Hopefully for Vicky, Murtha won't cut and run from the fundraiser like he wants our war fighters to do from Iraq. Murtha coming is really quite irrelevant. Vicky can't win this district. As more and more people learn about her involvement with illegal medical experiments on poor, unsuspecting Africans, the more they'll distrust her.
WTF, you mean the experiments that the Heimlichs are doing. As bad as Wulsin might seem, anybody is better than Schmidt. There's going to be some big upsets this election.
Schmidt barely squeeked by last time,but now everybody knows what an embarrasment she is and the Republicans are imploding. Their numbers are in the toilet and people what some real change.
What... are you guys going to swiftboat Vic like you did Paul Hackett? Is spreading lies the only thing you've got?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot said... Vicky can't win this district.
It appears that you have been drinking that Hillbilly whiskey again. If you feel that Vicky can not win this district, why are you attempting to slander her name? Why are you spreading false information? Why is Jean running attack ads? Whiskey, you should read the headlines more often and then you can make an accurate predication about the second district.
What false rumors are being spread. If your talking about Wulsin investing in drug stocks that is public record. The investment is the Putnam Health Science Trust. All they own is drug companies. Wulsin is making money from drug companies. The same companies she attacks over Medicare Part D. This investment sure screws up any democrat attack ad over Medicare Part D or PAC contributions. I think the report shows Wulsin owning as much as $50,000 in drug companies with this investment. All public record.
Hackett wants to know if Murtha is still foaming at the mouth or is he finally back on his meds.
at 4:13 PM, October 11, 2006 Anonymous said...
As Vic tries to attack Medicare Part D because it enriches the drug companies she neglects to tell the voters that it is enriching her also through her investment in the Putnam Health Science Trust. As the drug companies profit, Vic profits because this fund owns all of the major durg companies. I doubt if the DCCC knows about Vic's investments in the drug companies
There seems to be some awfully faulty logic from the posters who think Wulsin's investments in pharmaceutical companies are unethical in light of her pointing out the many problems with the GOP introduced and passed new entitlement commonly called Plan D.
If Wulsin was unethical she would be for Plan D as it was passed because it clearly benefits private insurers and pharmaceutical companies at the expense of tax payers and seniors.
Are conservatives so dependent on talking points they don't think before they type?
What's Truly Alarming about Part D Print Friendly
1. Privatizes Medicare
For the first time in its 40-year-old history, Medicare will pay billions to private insurance companies and force beneficiaries into HMOs and private health plans for drug coverage.
(Source: Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act)
2. Forbids Medicare from Negotiating Drug Discounts
Medicare is prohibited from using the buying power of 42 million beneficiaries to negotiate drug price discounts. Allowing price negotiation could potentially save the same amount needed to close the Part D coverage gap or doughnut hole.
(Sources: Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act; "Doughnut Holes and Price Controls," Gerard F. Anderson, Ph.D, Dennis G. Shea, Ph.D., Peter Hussey et al. Health Affairs Web Exclusive (July 21, 2004): W4-396-404)
3. Seniors Will Pay More for Less
With Part D's monthly premiums, $250 deductible, co-insurance and co-payments, the average senior on Medicare will pay more out of pocket for Rx drugs than they do today without any drug coverage. Forty percent of Part D enrollees will fall into the coverage gap or doughnut hole where they are responsible for 100% of their drug costs.
(Source: Kaiser Family Foundation)
4. Part D Plan Costs Will Rise Over Time
Part D’s estimated average monthly premium will increase from $32 to $64 in eight years. In addition, the annual deductible is estimated to increase from $250 in 2006 to $437 in 2014 and the coverage gap will increase from $2,850 to $4,984 in the same period.
(Source: Kaiser Family Foundation)
5. Huge Cost to Taxpayers
Part D will cost taxpayers $720 billion over its first 10 years, with costs reaching $100 billion a year by the middle of the next decade.
(Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
6. Billion-Dollar Windfall for Drug and Insurance Companies
Drug companies are expected to gain $139 billion in profits from Part D. Medicare has already begun to pay insurance companies subsidies totaling at least $46 billion over 10 years.
(Sources: Alan Sagar, Ph.D. and Deborah Socolar, M.P.H., Health Reform Program at Boston University School of Public Health, October 31, 2003. Available at www.healthreformprogram.org; Office of Management and Budget)
Part D must stand for Do They Think We Are DUMB.
Bush and the Democrats differ, but experts say many seniors who don't switch plans face hikes.
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Times Staff Writer
October 13, 2006
WASHINGTON — Two weeks after the Bush administration announced that Medicare prescription premiums would stay about the same next year, a new analysis by congressional Democrats indicates that for a majority of middle-class seniors, rates will jump 13% — well above the overall inflation rate.
In a sternly worded letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Los Angeles, accused the administration of "deceptive advertising."
Medicare Administrator Mark B. McClellan fired back with a statement calling the analysis by Waxman's Government Reform Committee staff "inaccurate and misleading."
But several independent experts said it is true that seniors using the most popular type of Medicare prescription coverage — a stand-alone drug plan — will face significant premium increases next year unless they switch to more economical plans that often come with more restrictions. The prescription drug benefit is overseen by the government but delivered by private insurance companies that offer a variety of plans with differing features and premiums.
Judges seem like something the average person need never concern themselves with. But the reality is, you could end up with an insurance company who refuses to pay a claim, a child severely injured in an unsafe vehicle that needs round the clock care, or has her intestines sucked out by a hotel hot tub with a faulty drain cover. You think some of the OH Supreme Court decisions seem inclines to favor business and lean anticonsumer, you need to check out Bush most egregious nominations. There is also the most basic rights at stake and the health and well being of large swathes of our population in the case of a disaster such as Katrina.
Michael B. Wallace, a politically well-connected Jackson, Miss., attorney is a lawyer with a career-long antipathy to such basic civil rights touchstones as the Voting Rights Act and single-member districts. He might be the only appeals circuit nominee who has received a unanimous "not qualified" rating from the ABA's standing committee on the federal judiciary.
And then there is Brett Kavanaugh,a an inexperienced, but ambitious member of the Bush administration for the D.C. Circuit. He has spent most of his legal career in partisan political positions. As Staff Secretary to the President, Kavanaugh has been involved in Bush’s use of 750 Presidential signing statements designed to reserve for the President alone the power to choose whether to enforce laws passed by Congress.
For excellent coverage of presidential signing statements see the Boston Globes series of articles.
Bush cites authority to bypass FEMA law
Signing statement is employed again
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/10/06/bush_cites_authority_to_bypass_fema_law/
To shield FEMA from cronyism, Congress established new job qualifications for the agency's director in last week's homeland security bill. The law says the president must nominate a candidate who has ``a demonstrated ability in and knowledge of emergency management" and ``not less than five years of executive leadership."
Bush signed the homeland-security bill on Wednesday morning. Then, hours later, he issued a signing statement saying he could ignore the new restrictions. Bush maintains that under his interpretation of the Constitution, the FEMA provision interfered with his power to make personnel decisions.
Bush challenges hundreds of laws
President cites powers of his office
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws/
I don't have time to go into more but if interested you should also research Charles Pickering who was installed through a recess appointment.
Priscilla Owens is a former lawyer for the oil and gas industry. She reflexively favors manufacturers over consumers, employers over workers and insurers over sick people. One of her more egregiuous cases and the foot dragging involved in that decision resulted in the death of a severely injured child who required round-the-clock care.
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