Sestak, Schwartz try to shift blame on health care

Interesting comments yesterday from Joe Sestak and Allyson Schwartz on health care. Sestak says it would be pActually, the Republicans have been quite consistent in their position, which is that the way to control health care costs is to control health…

Videos for a slow news day…

On this slow news day, pa2010.com Central brings you a couple videos for your amusement.

This first is your classic attack of Arlen Specter and his ever-changing stance on the Employee Free Choice Act.

The second is from the Joe Sestak folks, painting him as the ultimate savior of health care reform. The music is enough to make you cry.

See them both below.

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The First Read — August 19, 2009

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Obama economic official may run for Lt. Gov.
A senior adviser to the Obama administration’s Secretary of Commerce is “seriously considering” a run for Lieutenant Governor, a Democrat familiar…

Just a thought…

Maybe if Chris Matthews didn’t keep putting everyone who brings a gun to town hall events on national TV… people would have less incentive to bring guns to town hall events.

Just a thought…

Crowded GOP fields really a good thing?

Although the crowded Republican fields provide a good, diverse field of candidates, it proves a relative weakness. The Democrats have a top bench of candidates who, up-and-down the ballot, can start running general election campaigns. The fact that random supervisors can jump to a Congressional race forces me to reference the “Colorado problem.”

Ryan Frazier, a town councilman in Aurora, is a top GOP prospect in the state who is being forced into a Senate…

Suburban Snapshot checks in on Philly’s loyal opposition

It might be the “dog days” of August in Philadelphia, but you couldn’t tell that to the loyal crowd that attended the “Meet the Candidates” event sponsored by the Loyal Opposition, a grassroots Philadelphia Republican group that is bringing major Pennsylvania and local candidates to Philadelphia to talk about the issues.

Two major GOP candidates, Al Schmidt for City Controller and Michael Untermeyer for District Attorney, addressed the crowd.

State Supreme Court candidate Joan Orie…

Sestak says he might not vote for health care without public option

Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7) joined a

Ouch: Newspaper calls on Corbett to drop gubernatorial bid

Well, that’s harsh.

State Attorney General Tom Corbett can’t be happy with The Leader-Vindicator in New Bethlehem. In an editorial Tuesday, the newspaper’s publisher said lashed out against his Harrisburg corruption investigation and said Corbett should abandon his campaign for governor.

“The investigation is going nowhere,” publisher Denny Bonavita

Schwartz: Republicans ‘have not been very constructive’

Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz (D-13) on Tuesday reiterated her support for a public option for health care, but said that Republicans have sought to block any efforts at reform.

“We have always wanted this and would love to see it be a bipartisan bill,” Schwartz said on MSNBC. “[Republicans are] looking for every way to right really doing what we want to do in this country.”

She insisted that when all is said and done, “there…

Obama economic official may run for Lt. Gov.

A senior adviser to the Obama administration’s Secretary of Commerce is “seriously considering” a run for Lieutenant Governor, a Democrat familiar with her plans told pa2010.com.

Elizabeth Vale, who is also executive director of the White House Business Council, would bring a different profile to a field of mostly current and former elected officials. And with the Democratic primary field largely empty, she could have an immediate impact on the still-undefined race.

“I see her…