OK-I’m finished with you- Dr. Sklaroff. But I will be posting on this blog about why we need to elect Pat Murphy who is of the modern world going forward. Not trying,like Mike Fitzpatrick is,to return us to policies that almost ruined this nation.

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

…and i will continue to remind you that you have failed to reply to fundamental questions raised in your blogging [including inability to document your assertions or to refute mine], in stark contrast with my exhaustive efforts.

Mr Fitzpatrick opposes stem cell research. As a physician I cannot imagine that he would deny such important research tools to medical researchers thus denying millions of fellow Americans the possibility of advances against devastating illness.

But to pro-life idealogues reverence for life seem to cease after birth?

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

He opposes EMBRYONAL stem-cell research for ethical reasons; it is scientifically identical to cloning.

You are cordially invited to provide a scientific reference that documents ANY medical advance that has been generated by such research (regardless of how it has been funded) leading to a substantive treatment innovation.

Otherwise, you are gain descending from the level of a physician to that of a hack-politician.

While stem cell research has not yet yielded the advances we had hoped for YET that is no reason to deprive the scientific community of this source of cells. The pro-life zealots incorrectly view embryos as human beings whose cells are sacrosanct. So these valuable cells are instead wasted. What is ethical about wasting valuable cells which could possibly help others? Akin to not donating organs after death.

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

if the process can be accomplished without cloning, which has apparently been achieved, then why not?

i guess your silence confirms fact that such a scientific citation does not, indeed, exist.

you have lost every rhetorical conflict with me, thus far; had you noticed?

“The pro-life zealots incorrectly view embryos as human beings whose cells are sacrosanct.”

This arrogance from the freakish libs will be the root cause of the tidal wave ready to crash on Pennsylvania in November. I can’t WAIT to vote!

All the documented exhaustive arguments passed on as “facts” are really unless they are built on a values base.

Among the core values which Pat Murphy embraces are fairness,social justice and celebration of US diversity in race,gender,religion,and sexual orientation.

What are your values?

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southmpton,Pa

Doc Lippin:

Social justice – what the heck is that? There is only one justice, and it cannot bve modidfied, limited, or tailered in any fashion. If what you mean is the nonsense of affirmative action, and “correcting historical injustices” through racial and ethnic preferences, and redistribution of wealth from the so-called “haves” to the “have-nots”, that is messianic garbage, and quite the opposite of “justice”.

My ancestors came from other nations where they had nothing, and through hard work and determination, they made a good life for themselves. And no, we are not European, white Americans.

Diversity is something to celebrate? More nonsencical tripe.

How about merit, and personal responsibility. I don’t care what race someone is, I care what they believe in, and what they have accomplished, and who they are. I am not a white European American, and I do not want to be “celebrated” as a “diverse” person. I want, and demand, only to be accepted as an American.

Diversity?? E Pluribus Unum – Out of Many, One. ONE.

As for sexual orientation, who cares what a consenting adult does. Just keep it to yourself. Not a political issue, and certainly nothing to celebrate(??).

Your little spiel about “fairness, social justice and celebration of US diversity in race,gender,religion,and sexual orientation” makes me want to wretch.

You might be right, maybe Murphy does stand for that. That’s why he and people like him need to be fought and resisted with every ounce of strength for the sake of this nation’s future.

Your values and mine couldn’t be further apart. I am grateful that your views are being rejected by most Americans now in the aftermath of the Obama election and the rude awakening thereafter, like a bone in the throat.

I will never stop fighting against people like you, for the sake of my children and future Americans.

Hey Rick, is not adherence to the Constitution included in your values-set?

I’m on Murph’s mailing list and I have to say his newsletters are with out a doubt the most disingenuous load of crap I have the displeasure of reading every month. As an independent I say this about Murph the “lapdog” Democrat…. douche-bag all the way.

Ironically over this past weekend the FDA just approved the use of embryonic stem cells (which ARE biologically different from other stem cells) for humans with paraplegia (paralysis of the lower extremities). The first patients will be tested for safety of the injection of these cells

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

Seabee,

I believe our nation prides itself on some sense of economic fairness or at least fair opportunities. No?

But over the past 30 years “the game has been rigged” in the name of deifying the unregulated free market which almost destroyed our nation.

Given the very well documented massive shift of wealth to the very wealthy(top 2%-3%)over the past 30 years why do you worry about some reasonable corrections for the US middle and working class (you? and me? and actually most Americans) who have been all but destroyed?

What do you fear?

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

GREAT NEWS for Pat Murphy. Senior level Pentagon official tonight leaks that its report due Dec 1 will not state if Don’t Ask -Don’t Tell should be repealed but how to implement its repeal!

This comes on the heels of a Federal judge calling for the Obama administration to end this policy with a 60 day appeal window

I predict that given that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs himself spoke eloquently against this outmoded policy that DADT is finished

Our own Pat Murphy deserves a great deal of credit for geeting us to this point

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton, Pa

Before you decide that the US Health Care reform law signed in March of this year by our President was “a mistake” you might want to look at this objective easy to read summary published by the Kaiser Foundation including timetables for incremental implementation.

(You don’t turn around a $2.2 trillion dollar industry overnight)

see http://www.kff.org/healthreform/8061.cfm

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

Doc:

I think you indulge in the classic liberal fallacy that support of the free market equals tolerance of corruption and lawlessness.

Not so. Problems that have existed with various individuals and corporations operating within the free market system are specific to those persons and entities, and are not an indictment of the entire free market process.

Like drinking alcohol. Its legal, and the fact that some people drive drunk means that those people should be dealt with, but it does not justify wholesale prohibition.

Obama believes in “spreading the wealth around”, and he feels that is is a shame that the civil rights era Supreme Court did not push its agenda more forcefully to affect what he calls “redistributive justice”.

Obama has bowed to two foriegn sovereigns so far in his time in office – the King of Saudi Arabia, and Akhihito of Japan.

He apoloigizes for American greatness and exceptionalism.

He believes and supports not merely workers’ right to organize, but disproportionate union domination in both the public and private sectors, at the expense of the rest of us Americans.

He is fundamentally changing (or attempting to fundamentally change America), because he believes that it is fundamentally flawed. (Perhaps you share those views doc?)

He has no mandate to do that, and as a matter of fact, I don’t believe any Presidentcould ever have the manadate to do that.

I do not believe that America is fundamentally flawed, and I resent his and the democratic party’s efforts to remake our society.

This is not an incremental “adjustment”, this is storming the Bastille in the name of liberty, equality and fraternity.The historical precedent suggests that this can only be followed by a reign of terror, and the rise of a Robspierre-like figure.

Not on my watch, Doc!

SeaBee

I love this nation and, believe it or not, I love free enterprise. SeaBee- It’s all cyclical. Thirty years of “Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush” have deified the UNFETTERRED free market. There is a role for government to moderate this excess.

Part of Government’s role (and the Courts) is to ensure some level of fairness or at least fair opportunity. This is long overdue.

And,no,this is NOT a socialist revolution. Obama is actually a compromising centrist President to a fault.

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

The problem in a nutshell, Rick, is that you libs are trying to ensure equal outcomes. Equal opportunity already exists.

Rick – As a doctor and a proponent of Obamacare, kindly explain to me two specific things that cause me to oppose it:

1) How can medical care – something that requires work from people – possibly be described as a “right”? Are you able to name a single other “right” we have that compels people to do something for us?

2) Obamacare forces us to buy a commercial product (insurance) that we may not want or need under the penalty of law. Kindly explain to me from where the government rerives that authority and provide a single other example of it.

Reconcile those issues for me and I’ll tattoo the BHO logo on my butt.

CW:

I would add one other fundamentally problematic basis for “Healthcare Reform”.

It is conceptionally, and in practice, redistributional.

It requires confiscation from our society’s producers and job-creators (in the form of taxes and surcharges), in order to distribute a benefit – healthcare, or the guarantee of having healthcare – to those who are not productive.

If there is still a shortfall in costs, then that will be dealt with by simply cutting the healthcare providers’ compensation, or printing more money.

The former is nothing short of state-sponsored theft of services, and the latter is the same as imposing yet another tax on all of society by diminishing the purchasing power of everyones dollars.

The whole thing reeks.

HISTORY WAS MADE TODAY!- THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE CEASED ENFORCEMENT of “DON’T ASK-DON’T TELL”

Congratulations to our very own Congressman Pat Murphy for spearheading this issue in the House of Reps

For that ALONE he deserves our vote in the PA 8th

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

ConservativeWrites-

Health Care is not a US Constitutional right. But BASIC (key word) health care for all fellow citizens is a moral obligation of societies that declare themselves to be civil and compassionate.

Insurance? Try driving your car without it?

Should you, heaven forbid, develp a catastrophic illness/injury do you have the personal $ to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket?

If so, you are extremely wealthy and very fortunate to be so.

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

Driving a car is a choice I make, Rick. The rules associated with it (like insurance) are a factor in that decision. I have no choice under Obamacare.

Regarding compassion, I contend the libs rob it from the philantropists at the same time they rob the underpriviledged of their ambition. That is another story, of course. I won’t pursue it unless I’m forced to defend myself against the tired and predictable garbage that cons have no compassion.

Your TV ads are a disgrace! You should be ashamed!!

Your TV ads are a disgrace.
You should be ashamed!!!

SSo, anyway, I’m waiting with baited breath for the anxiously sought after and much coveted, and not lightly awarded Carlineo endorsement!!

Nice to see some intelligent people backing a hardworking former soldier who answered the call when Bush and friends lied us into war and not some career politician, Fitzpatrick who is nothing more a GOP automaton. Murphy isn’t the empty suit Fitzpatrick is, and is working hard to make well reasoned choices to move us ahead. Rubber stamp Fitzpatrick is more of the same failed policies championed by George W. Bush and Rick Santorum, that got us into this economic mess: namely give business free rein and they’ll return us to prosperity instead of lining their own pockets? How many times do we have to go down that road until we realize it’s a dead end, road to nowhere?

Hey Bob Z,

How many times do we have to go down your road, before you give it up? Do some reading and research. Time passes, information surfaces.
Wikileaks released nearly 400,000 classified U.S.
documents. They did find WMD and chemical labs in Iraq.

There is no chance that I would ever vote for Fitzpatrick again like I did the first time he ran. His agenda was that of the entire Republican Party and even voted for another bad trade bill called CAFTA in 2005. This was after he committed to vote against it. Costing more american jobs. I will vote and support a good man, congressman and loyal veteran who served well in the military and as my congressman in the 8th congressional district.

Dr. Lippin, looks like all of your lippin was for naught!

Mike Fitzpatrick is bad for Bucks County, bad for Pennsylvania, and bad for the United States of America. That should have been obvious when he didn’t even show up to receive his oath of office, then voted as a congressman in violation of the United States Constitution. I could look past this if he was a freshman congressman; however, he held this seat before he was decimated by the Honorable Patrick Murphy. I think todays actions while acting as Speaker of the House, he conducted absolutely no business whatsoever. He opened the House Session, then immediately adjourned the House session before any single congressman could have a word on the floor.