Pelosi’s prescription slashes Medicare, raises taxes

Supporters of the health care overhaul that Speaker Nancy Pelosi muscled through Congress argue this will be the greatest accomplishment since Social Security and Medicare.

What supporters of the $2.4-trillion scheme brush under the rug is that the health care overhaul will siphon resources from Social Security and Medicare at a time when the federal government is struggling to meet its existing entitlement program obligations.

Recent estimates show that Medicare could go bankrupt as early…

O’Brien hits Kanjorski over reported appropriations vote

When Pennsylvania’s delegation of congressional Democrats met last week to vote on who would replace the late John Murtha on the powerful Appropriations Committee, they did so by secret ballot. But lawmakers often know which votes they do—or don’t—have lined up, and multiple news reports have indicated that Congressman Paul Kankjorski (D-11) cast the deciding vote for Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-8).

That means he was voting against Congressman Chris Carney (D-10), with whom Kanjorski shares…

Murphy also report threats

Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-8) says he’s also on the receiving end of threats in the wake of his recent vote for health care reform legislation.

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Meehan gets Huckabee endorsement

Republican congressional hopeful Pat Meehan now has one of the country’s most visible conservative backing him.

The political action committee for former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has endorsed Meehan, 7th District candidate and former U.S. Attorney.

“Pat is not just a Republican,” Huckabee said in a statement. “He’s a strong fiscal conservative whose values reflect those of Huck PAC and Team Huck and the 7th Congressional District of Pennsylvania. He realizes our…

British parallels

The world’s greatest capitalist power, the one nation capable of projecting military power anywhere on the globe, laid low by political gridlock over the redistributive legislative agenda offered by the country’s ruling liberals. A January election produces a surprising result, which emboldens the country’s conservative party to maintain its obstructionist position leaves the liberal leadership groping for a way out.

America in 2010? Yes. But also Great Britain 100 years earlier, in March of 1910.…

Catholic group runs ad thanking Carney for health care vote

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Liberal group wants information on Corbett health care suit; Rendell says drop it

The blow-back against Attorney General Tom Corbett’s decision to join a suit trying to block health care reform legislation continued Thursday, with a liberal group saying it would file Right to Know requests seeking more information on correspondence that led to the lawsuit and Gov. Ed Rendell reiterating his call for Corbett to cease his involvement in the suit.

The group Keystone Progress said Thursday evening that it would file two Right to Know requests,…

Why I broke with J Street

Months ago—after a lot of reading, briefings and reflection—I clearly stated my support for Israel in a position paper. Yet my convictions as a candidate for Congress have not gotten through. The reason for this confusion is my endorsement by J Street’s political action committee. When I accepted it, I didn’t realize how different J Street’s approach is from mine on some key points.

One example is the 2009 Goldstone Report on the war in…

FACT CHECK: Meehan attack on Lentz supporter misses the mark

When Republican Pat Meehan’s congressional campaign discovered that a supporter of its Democratic opponent had forwarded a fundraising e-mail while at work, it accused him of doing political work at “taxpayer expense,” campaigning with “government resources.”

But the Meehan campaign’s attack was misleading or false on several accounts, a review of the facts by pa2010.com has found.

The Meehan campaign’s target was Bruce Bikin, an attorney with the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of…