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RT @sarahelabance: Joseph Cao: Voting For Health Reform Was "A Decision Of Conscience" (VIDEO) http://bit.ly/3XwCGd #hcr #p2 19 days ago |
Joseph Cao, The RINO Traitor!
Political Byline —
... I see over at HuffPo, where he said it was decision of conscience. More like a conscience of a mindless fool….or worse. I will be totally honest with you. I am seriously starting to distrust those of eastern decent. I mean, first we had John Yoo, who gave President George W. Bush some very horrible advice during the war on terror, then we had Obama’s Energy Secretary telling us, that we should pay China back. I mean, I hate to say it, we have Michelle Malkin; who honestly, at times, be-clowns the Conservative movement with her writings. How ...
Don Young Intimidates Lone Republican Supporter of Health Care Reform.
The Mudflats —
... The subject of a fierce, late-in-the-game, lobbying effort between Democrats and Republicans, Cao ultimately voted yea because, as he put it, “I had to make a decision of conscience based on the needs of the people in my district.” ...
The Dems Who Punted, Ctd
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
A reader writes: Cao punted too. Please don't forget that his predecessor was Dollar Bill Jefferson. This is a safe Democratic seat unless the Democrat on the ticket is so pathetically corrupt it is over the top for even SE Louisiana residents. He was. Cao was the first Republican I had voted for in years. With his vote yesterday, he just radically improved his chances or re-election.
Another writes:
What lovely sentiments expressed by Rep. Cao! Only one problem: he voted against the bill before he voted for it. I followed the voting last night, and Rep. Cao changed his vote in the last ...
GOP's health-care vote: Cao confident
The Swamp —
by Mark Silva
Rep. Anh "Joseph'' Cao, the one Republican who voted for the House's health-care legislation near midnight Saturday, said he had let the White House know he was on board: "I called the White House and said I could possibly support the bill."
The president had called the freshman congressman from New Orleans around noon on Saturday, hours before a vote on an amendment banning most abortion coverage from the so-called "public option'' in the health bill which was key to the votes of Cao and others.
Cao, elected in an overhwelmingly Democratic district after former Rep. William ...
Conservatives’ Race to Oblivion, Pt. 1
The Republic of T. —
I’ve used this quote (attributed to Maya Angelou) before: “When people show you who they really are, believe them.” I guess in periods of tremendous change people really reveal who they really are. I’ll probably return to this in a more detailed post, but the news and debate leading up to and following the passage of health care reform in the House is at least worth a quick roundup, if only because it all seems to come together in an compelling context.
First, let me reiterate that I’ll be the first to say that the anger directed at the president, Congress, and the policy changes they’re trying to make are ...
REPORT: At Least 40 GOP Lawmakers Fail The ‘Purity Test’
Think Progress —
Yesterday, Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp unveiled a resolution to deny funding of candidates who do not uphold right-wing conservative values. The resolution, termed a “purity test,” is being touted as a mechanism for actually avoiding the party schism that occurred in the NY-23 special election, when the Republican Party nominated a moderate who violated several of the resolution dictates.
As the Hotline has noted, the resolution, if adopted, would boot key Republican candidates running for the Senate next year. National Republicans recruited Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) to run for the ...
