Obama Endorses Murphy | 03/25/2009 8:20 am

Obama Endorses NY Congressional Candidate Scott Murphy

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Barack Obama’s extending his political reach into New York State.

The president last night sent out an e-mail declaring his support for Scott Murphy, a Democrat who’s fighting for the New York congressional seat left empty when Kirsten Gillibrand took over Hillary Clinton’s Senate spot.

Writing to about 50,000 people, President Obama touted Murphy’s experience and expressed Washington’s need for help. Via Huffington Post:

On Tuesday, March 31st — just one week away — voters will have the chance to send Scott to Congress, where we’ll work together to get our economy moving in the right direction.

Volunteer this week and help in the final push to send Scott Murphy to Congress.

Scott has the kind of experience and background we desperately need right now in Washington.

He’s created jobs by building and growing small businesses while bringing people together to address difficult challenges. He supports the economic recovery plan we’ve put in place, and I know we can count on him as an ally for change.

The president concluded his letter by directly linking his success to Murphy’s, and insisted, "To restore our economy and build a foundation for lasting prosperity, I’ll need Scott’s help." Murphy is running in a primarily Republican area upstate, but recent polls show he’s slowly gaining on his opponent, Jim Tedisco.

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President Obama, you’re doing a Great Job!!!! I support all of your efforts!!!! American is going to arise from this recession stronger than ever!!!!

By L. C. on 03/25/2009 12:40 pm

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I am with you LC. Our new president took a train wreck and is trying to put it back on track, but this time, a track in the right direction. Unfortunately there is an angry fringe determined to not only NOT support him, but to see nothing but negative in his every action and word. But they are a fringe, which can be hard to remember when so many of them like to blog.

By DeBúrca obj on 03/25/2009 2:21 pm

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No such luck, DeBurca, there are democrats in congress and elsewhere who are not buying into this quadrupling of our debt. No longer the fringe. Moving more to the center. Here’s something for your reading pleasure.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/17/veterans-groups-unhappy-with-obama/

By deber B on 03/25/2009 3:09 pm

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You are the fringe, not the Democrats. And the Democrats have always been a full spectrum, and the discussion and debate you see within the party is normal and the way government is supposed to work. The Rubber Stamp Republican Congress Bush had was not healthy for the country and is not democracy in action.

By DeBúrca obj on 03/25/2009 4:40 pm

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DeBurca, as I remember the Bush years, it was the republican administration reaching across the aisle and not vetoing democrat costly spending programs. All Bush got for it was derision from the right and surprisingly from the left. Bush has been rightfully criticized for his excessive spending in the name of compassionate conservatism. What you call full spectrum discussion and debate is moderate democrat and republican pushback against Obama’s far left profligate spending plan. True democracy requires voicing of opinions from the left, the middle and the right. In your world, DeBurca, democracy is pushing through policies that have been discussed by the far left and the moderate left. Much of the country can be counted not among these two parts of the political spectrum, as much as you might not like it.

By deber B on 03/25/2009 4:58 pm

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Are you joking?? The GOP in Congress treated the Democrats like crap for 6 years, that is well known!

By DeBúrca obj on 03/26/2009 10:29 am

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More on that:

"FROM ONE PARTY RULE TO CRY-BABY CAUCUS"

http://www.thetalentshow.org/2009/02/04/from-one-party-rule-to-cry-baby-…

excerpt: "Congress’s majority parties have always dominated legislative action, but they typically have given the minority some voice — even if it has amounted to little more than a floor vote on a sure-to-lose alternative bill, or conference committee recommendations destined to be rejected along party lines. Often, majority party leaders have made enough concessions to attract a few votes from across the aisle, withstand some intra-party defections and tout a piece of legislation as “bipartisan.” (The conference on the original Medicare bill in 1965, when Democrats controlled the White House and Congress, included Republicans. Roughly half of all House and Senate Republicans voted for the final legislation.)

Recently, however, GOP leaders have largely dispensed with such niceties. Senate Republicans rewrote a massive (and still-pending) energy bill with zero Democratic participation. And top House and Senate Republicans negotiated the complex Medicare bill with only two conciliation-minded Democrats — Sens. John Breaux (La.) and Max Baucus (Mont.) — in the room. (When some House Democrats barged in one day, Thomas, the Ways and Means chairman, halted the meeting until they left.)
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These hardball techniques underscore a paradox of current U.S. politics: The electorate is almost evenly divided, but federal policymaking is increasingly one-sided. With only the narrowest of House and Senate margins, Republican leaders are deploying scorched-earth, compromise-be-damned tactics, as if they ruled the nation 80-20, not 51-49. Rather than building broader consensus, they have decided they can’t afford centrist compromises that might attract some Democratic support but lose even more votes from the GOP conservative wing.
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Whereas House Republicans berated Democratic speaker Jim Wright in 1987 for extending a roll call — normally 15 minutes — by 10 more minutes, Hastert last month obliterated that record in order to cajole and badger enough colleagues into backing the Medicare bill. Sometimes the leaders’ partisanship seems almost cartoonish, as when Thomas summoned Capitol police to evict Democrats from a quiet meeting room. (The cops refused.)"

FROM ONE PARTY RULE TO CRY-BABY CAUCUS

http://www.thetalentshow.org/2009/02/04/from-one-party-rule-to-cry-baby-…

By DeBúrca obj on 03/26/2009 10:37 am

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I went to that site and saw that it is predominately left wing. I am not surprised you posted it.

By deber B on 03/26/2009 10:48 am

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A severe case of "Blind Faith." Putting all your faith into someone whose only experience was as a community organizer. No questions asked of a man whose only experiencing at balancing anything was his personal checkbook. A man whose popularity was 83% in late January and down to 61% last week….a man who is not continuing to win the hearts of all of his democratic congress. This is a one president we will be remembering for decades to come. He might let Jimmy Carter off the hook.

By deber B on 03/25/2009 3:16 pm

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Scott Murphy is going to rubber stamp all the bills that Nancy Pelosi tells him to.

He’s a product of a Washington DC slick campaign with nice commercials but don’t get
fooled folks. He’ll vote yes for the mortgage bailout bill and yes on a second stimulus package.

The people who got us into this mess with AIG was Barney Frank and Dodd, and it was rushed
through without thought and voted on. Exactly what Scotty Murphy did when he said he’d vote
for the first stimulus bill without reflecting on it or reading the bill.

I’m voting Tedisco for congress for fiscal responsibility.

Let’s see if the times union does it’s job and asks Murphy about this.

Scott Murphy for Congress truth about bonuses

Scott Murphy for Congress tax problem

Scott Murphy for Congress against death penalty

By Bernabie Ayod on 03/27/2009 7:57 am