Since the NRCC is making such an effort to fill their own ranks with puppets, I guess it’s understandable that they would mistakenly think that was the Dem strategy as well.

The report doesn’t indicate if Joe Sciarrino had to check his hand for the words “puppet”, “taxes” and “Pelosi”.

The Republican party is heavily invested in policy cheerleaders with saw-dust for brains: Palin, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, and Fox-&-Friends. Heading the RNC is Michael Steele, who is p!ssing away money as fast as it comes in.

As for Health Care Reform, I hope it’s resolved before the next congress starts in Jan 2011.

Pat Meehan as the hand-picked candidate??? Hah. The 7th district has now had successive Democrat hand-picked candidates and staffed straight from D.C. Local Dems are fractured and are now getting extremely worried about the Lentz candidacy and his fundraising ability. Although, there is not a better choice for them at this juncture.

The NRCC “pounces” on Lentz for saying that health care reform has to get done? The GOP leadership keeps showing themselves as job killers everytime they open their mouths.

Ed, Are you saying that health care reform will create jobs?

Thomas J-
Are you saying that our current for-profit system is not crushing small business, keeping them from creating more jobs?

Al Neri-
“The 7th district has now had successive Democrat hand-picked candidates and staffed straight from D.C”

Last time I checked, the Lentz and Conner staffs were all local-yokels.

Thomas J-
The current health care system is driving up costs, hurting jobs, and leading to foreclosures and bankruptcies (which hurt the banks, who then tighten lending to small business).

That doesn’t really answer my question.

Thomas J-
Let me make it clearer for you:
“The current health care system is driving up costs, hurting jobs, and leading to foreclosures and bankruptcies (which hurt the banks, who then tighten lending to small business).”

So….. health care reform will lower the costs, and create/save jobs.

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David,
You are delusional if you think the proposed attempts at health care reforms will lower cost or create jobs. “Saved” jobs is a farce. The Government is heavily involved in 2 aspects of Healthcare; Medicare and the VA System. Hardly the model I want to see followed. Government involvement in any market creates bureaucrats which are a money drain on the system.

Now wait a second. Whenever Democrats propose cuts in waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare, the Republicans HOWL in protest and say that Medicare is inviolate.

But yet when Dems point to how Medicare has generally worked well for the senior citizens of this country, Republicans protest how lousy of a system it is.

Quite simply, you can’t have it both ways!!

Pat Meehan…nice guy…empty suit.
republican talking points are what pat spouts.
Lentz is not my favorite but I much prefer him to a son of the Delco Repub Machine like Meehan who is pandering to and wants to be a teabagger.
Lentz is right about healthcare…what’s meehan’s plan?
Meehan’s against EFCA? what do the delco unions think about that?
The campaign will be fun.

Thomas J-
Go around asking senior citizens if they want to keep their Medicare or get private insurance.
Even the moronic Tea-Partiers like their Medicare so much they say: “Keep the government hands off my Medicare”. They may be dumb, but they no what they like.
Could Medicare be run better? Sure. But that doesn’t mean because it’s not perfect that the government can’t provide a high quality, affordable insurance plan to help those who can’t get private insurance coverage.
The Republicans want to kill Medicare. They fought it’s formation over 40 years ago, with all the same fear mongering they are spouting today about health care reform.

flynn-
The Republicans are the party of NO and of hypocrisy.

Son of Tommey-
Well, empty suit yes. One out of two isn’t bad.

flynnbw, if you believe that medicare has “generally worked” your nuts. Of course you realize that medicare reimbursement rates are around 20%. Meaning if a doctor charges $100 for an office visit, he gets $20 from medicare for the service. I wonder where that doctor needs to make his ends meet. Go figure, private insurance companies are the ones that get hit with sometimes 4 times that reimbursement rate. Now who pays for that? Private insurance policy holders. The medicare and medicaid plans are socked for so much fraud and abuse its not even funny. Try upwards of $40 billion per year. But i suppose to you that is a plan that “generally worked”. Now are there changes that need to be made in private insurance, absolutely. Lets start with Tort reform. If this president and administration are open to real solutions, lets start there. If you are unable to even discuss that as a starting point, then you are not really serious about lowering medical costs. Just about lip service.

phil-
FYI – tort reform is in the current bill.
We are way past starting point there.
Any other suggestions?

Really quadmom? Is this what you are referring to? Not really tort reform, is it? From the Wall Street Journal:

Buried in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 1,990-page bill is a provision that provides “incentive payments” to each state that develops an “alternative medical liability law” that encourages “fair resolution” of disputes and “maintains access to affordable liability insurance.” Sounds encouraging. Read on, however, and you come to this nugget: The state only qualifies if its new law “does not limit attorneys’ fees or impose caps on damages.”

Holy Bill Lerach.

Huge contingency fees and damage awards are the mother’s milk of frivolous lawsuits. That’s why 30 states have adopted caps on awards as the core of their reform, with huge success. Texas imposed malpractice caps in 2003, and the state has been rewarded with fewer lawsuits, a 50% drop in malpractice premiums, and a flood of new doctors. The House bill is intended to discourage other states from doing the same.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703740004574513752760366872.html

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