The world is turning upside down - and I'm loving it!!

Who ever would've thought that Chris Matthews of MSNBC would be telling the democratic leaders that they can't pass the bill and they're totally not understanding what a vote meant - and that he'd be right??? This is truly golden. Both of these clips are from recent Hardball episodes on MSNBC.

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I found these clips on Hardball's homepage on msnbc.com

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!

If you want to continue celebrating Tuesday night's victory, read this post and rejoice! Be sure to notice our own Senator Casey's remarks toward the bottom; I like to think we had a good impact on his thinking. :0)

It's not over yet, but this is nonetheless a HUGE victory.

Waterloo

Hope for No Change??

This post on one of my favorite blogs gave me more hope this morning than I've had for a long time. Check it out at Hot Air, it's definitely worth reading. The gist of it is that the White House knows that their health care take over will be in big trouble if Brown beats Coakley in Massachusetts tomorrow night, and their only option may be to force the current Senate bill into a vote in the House. Pelosi apparently has already shot down that option, though, saying the Senate bill won't pass the House as is. Read the whole thing - Ed Morrissey understands and explains the process way better than me - and pray that Brown will soon be heading to the Senate!

Babies Love Politicians

Young Physicians and Their Families - Meeting with Rep. Holden

Meeting Highlights:

• Our group relayed key concerns to Rep. Holden and urged him to vote against the health care conference bill when it is brought to the House floor.
• Rep. Holden plans to vote against the health care conference bill.
• Rep. Holden believes necessary health reform should consist of incremental changes to our system such as allowing the purchase of insurance across state lines.
• At the beginning of the health debate, Rep. Holden received a phone call from prior PA Governor Leader urging Holden to vote no on H.R. 3962. Governor Leader (who founded and operates nursing care centers) urged him to vote no because H.R. 3962 would drastically diminish quality of health care and would result in devastating cuts to nursing homes and hospitals.
• Rep. Holden supports tort reform and believes it is not included in either the House or Senate bill because of the influence of the trial attorney lobby on the Democratic Party.
• Rep. Holden does not agree with the closed-door health care negotiations taking place or the payments made to individual states for votes in the Senate (Nebraska and Louisiana).
• Rep. Holden called on the AMA for political help. The AMA will not help him because he voted against H.R. 3962. We assured him the AMA's stance does not represent physicians in our group.
• Rep. Holden believes federal funding of abortion will be the main hold-up to reaching a compromise House/Senate bill.
• If Rep. Holden were Speaker of the House, he would not touch health care and he would not touch cap and trade during this economic downturn.
• Irene at SEIU won't even look at Rep. Holden. (credit to whoever knows who Irene is.)
• Rep. Holden encouraged us to stay active and make our voices heard.

Meeting with Congressman Holden

Hi Everyone!

Great news - I just got off the phone with Congressman Tim Holden's office. Congressman Holden will be in Harrisburg this Thursday for a "District day" and would like to meet with our group. The meeting will be at 1:30 PM this Thursday. We have been slotted for 30 minutes with the Congressman.

As many of us have discussed, this is a GREAT opportunity and perfect timing because Holden will be voting on health reform again soon - likely this month. Holden voted AGAINST the health reform bill in the House, but he waited until the last minute when his vote didn't matter. In meeting with him at this critical juncture in the process - we can urge him to stay consistent on his vote when voting on the Conference bill (the Senate/ House compromise health bill). The House vote was very close (220 to 215). The Conference bill vote could be close again, and our voices really could make a difference.

Please respond if you and/or your spouse are able to attend the meeting with Congressman Holden this Thursday at 1:30 PM in Harrisburg.

It's Unconstitutional

There's still hope that even if the health care bill makes it to Obama's desk, it will get overturned by the courts. There are several (or at least a few) things in the bill that are unconstitutional, and here's an article in the WSJ that discusses three of the major constitutional problems with the bill.