very excited about her run!

It’s time to get rid of these Republi-Dems like Holden.

Congrats to Sheila Dow-Ford. Now get an Act Blue page going, and let the folks at DailyKos & Firedoglake know you’re out there. There are literally thousands of people in this state and across the country that are chomping at the bit to donate to candidates running against anti-HCR incumbents.

Go Sheila! Another real Democrat to support!

Holden has pretty much lost his Democratic base with his “no” vote on healthcare reform.

Great start. Declare after filing petitions….

And her position, running against a popular well-known encumbant in a primary…because he’s voting AGAINST a massively unpopular and divisive bill, is ridiculous.

This aint San Fran, or Mass. A dem needs to walk that blue dog line in S East PA, and if they do, maybe (maybe..) they can hold their seat in 2010.

I give her less of a chance than VodVarka. And when it’s over, at least we’ll remember VoVarka’s name.

But with her it will be Sheila Dow-Corning,what….who?

This is the primary, Barry, where only Democrats get to vote. Holden is showing he is not a real Democrat. Get rid of him and let a real Democrat run in November and we’ll take our chances.

Regardless of Holden and that handful of conserva-Dems voting no, by next week at this time we will have Health Care Reform. And it will be an amazing win for all Americans in the face of overwhelming fear & smear from the right.

Bruce:

The uber-left of the democratic party says that this bill doesn’t go far enough. It’s a watered down version without any real teeth and with marginal benefit.

Are you happy with that?

Liberal democrats say that “healthcare is a right”. In one sense it is, but does that mean that the govt should provide it to you?

If I work hard and make enought money, it is my right to live in the house of my chosing. But if I can’t afford the one I want, does the government have an obligation to give it to me? And who will pay for it?

Comes the answer: People who work harder, are more intelligent, and more resourceful. What they earn will be taken from them, so that I can live in the house I want.

But ultimately we all will wind up living in the same house because Obamacare and Obamanomics economically levels out our society.

Charity has no purpose, because the government takes care of everyone. It fits with the liberal world-view because now religion and faith based initiatives are redundant. The nanny-state is our new god.

Liberals cry foul when we use the term “socialism”. So what would you like to call it?

Finally, what about illegal aliens. Sure they are human beings and should not be brutalized – no argument there. But do they have a right to healthcare under the fullest realization of healthcare reform? Do they have a right to amnesty and a PW to citizenship?

Semantics aside, this is a radical restructuring of American society. And many Americans are rightly dead-set against it.

You will see in 2010, and 2012, the fastest political pendulum swing in American history.

Dow-Corning is a non-starter, and as a left wing Obama-ite, may she always be.

As Bruce said, this time next week, we’ll have healthcare insurance reform. And those who are attempting to scare Dems from voting for it by predicting that it will hurt them at the polls are in for a big surprise.

Once this legislation is passed and takes effect over time, the public will love it. It will be nearly as popular as Social Security and Medicare. The only reason that it’s not as highly valued at the moment is because people do not understand it.

That, in part, is because it is a complicated issue; but it’s at least equally because of the disinformation (dare I say outright lies and deception?) peddled by the insurance companies, Big Pharma, and the Republicans who do their bidding.

When people get the opportunity to use the program and see that the cost savings are documented, they will become both familiar and pleased with the reform. When that time comes, let’s remember that it was the Democrats who stood for the people and the Republicans who stood for the insurance companies.

Very excited about Mrs. Dow-Ford’s run!!! The ALMOST impossible, but with the right support she can DO THIS!! We all know we have been ripped off by the insurance companies since the 80′s when Reagan installed DRG’S. That one action by a misguided Prez has fallout to this day. That one action opened the doors for insurance companies to rip off a nation, to decide who lives and who dies by stalling payments,denying care and raising premiums unjusty for nothing other then greed. A four billion dollar profit in one quarter while they raise preiums 40 percent, WOW! Enough!!

Has for Mr. Holden he needs to be called home. He has been inside the beltway for so long he has become the problem rather then a solution. By that I mean, he may have ran for office to bring help to the 17th but now he seems be more interested in world travel. During our darkest economic crisis Holden traveled the world. In the last twenty months Holden has visited 17 foreign countries, wife in tow, and chargeD it to the taxpayers, while he missed votes here at home. Ask those in the 17th when they saw him during that period. Holden is now part of the Beltway gang living in a bubble. Well, the bubble for US has popped, we are losing our homes as banks raise our interest rates to 15%, as credit card compaines become loan sharks, and investment companies become vultures, as schools fire the teachers and close their doors, and jobs are outsourced offshore. Where was Tim H OLDEN, WHAT DID HE DO TO HELP US BEFORE WE CAME TO THIS? NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Like I said, it’s time for him to come home or go around the world on his own dime. He is a coward, if he wants to be a republican then just stand up and be counted as one, no harm no foul. Oh and I forgot his background is in Real Estate and Insurance,so no wonder he left the country. Sometimes you just have to get out of dodge,right?

I don’t care if Holden wins the Democratic primary, this lifelong Democrat will never cast another vote for Tim Holden. I have noted in every election for 30 years and have never voted for any Republicans except Tim Holden. Never again! Holden needs to be honest about who and what he is. He needs to go back to being a sheriff because that line of work fits his principles. He and his fellow Doggies are misrepresenting themselves with their absolute & consistent rejection of the most basic Democratic principles. They are biting the hands that feed him and we are tired of bleeding. We prefer an HONEST obstructionist in Congress that doesn’t pretend to be what he is not

I am excited by the prospect of voting for a real Democrat for a change. Holden would prefer to see President Obama and the Democratic Party as a whole fail, so what really is he? A political hack who is only interested in his own skin. Argall is just another career politician, and I don’t really want him, either. But if he must be the one to bring down Holden, so be it.

I recently was reading a book (1908) that told about healthcare in the German Empire of the Kaiser. It said in part, “By an imperial statute it is in Germany enacted that all laborers and employes (sic), in short all persons not engaged in business on their own account, shall be and are insured by the imperial government against sickness and disability….A person insured under this wise and beneficial law has insurance of the most effective kind, at the lowest cost possible, and need pay but one-half of such costs,–his employer paying the other one-half.” So how can government-run health insurance be so wildly socialistic when an old-world monarchy provided it 100 years ago? It’s time that Tim Holden and the rest of the Republicans catch up to 1908!