I seem to be hearing this of the country but where I live, in the PA09th, that is, The middle of the base of the Pennsylvania "T", including all of Blair, Bedford, Fulton, Franklin, and Huntington Counties, and parts of Cumberland,Cambria, Clearfield, Fayette, Indiana, Juniata, Mifflin, Somerset, Perry, and Westmorland Counties, Republicans are running for cover and hiding.

For example, our Congressman Bill Shuster (R-PA09) has refused four different invitations to debate.  Check the video

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As residents of New Orleans were fleeing Hurricane Gustav, top Republican Party officials donned pink boas and swigged vodka shots at a wild whirl of corporate and lobbyist-paid parties this weekend in Minneapolis-St. Paul.  Sunday night lobbyists with ties to criminally indicted lawmaker Tom DeLay, put on a raucous six-hour party at a downtown bar featuring music by the band "Hookers and Blow." There was no evidence of any actual prostitutes or cocaine.

Congressman Bill Shuster (R-PA), a GOP House deputy whip, was seen meeting with a group of lobbyists, who bemoaned McCain's call to tone down the parties which had already been paid for.
Shuster said he was praying for the people of the Gulf coast and said, despite Sen. McCain's call to "tone things down," there was no need to curtail corporate parties until after the Hurricane hit land.  - ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Convention s/story?id=5699123&page=1

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Bill Shuster has spent the last couple of days being driven around the PA-9th District talking up his "Energy Independence act".  Flashy title aside, HR 6421 is quite probably deader than fried chicken.  The Bill was introduced to the floor of Congress on June 29th without a single co-sponsor.  That means that no one in Congress, not even any republicans, would attach their name to it.  The last energy-related bill that got out of Committee had some 198 co-sponsors.

As is standard practice, HR 6421 was referred to six different Congressional Committees; Natural resources, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Science and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure and House rules.  Any one of these committees can kill this bill for any reason, but that's not why this bill is deader than Julius Caesar.  

This Bill is dead on arrival for a number of reasons.

In 2006 Special Education teacher got on the ballot as a write -in.  In a very red district deep in the bowels of the Pennsylvania "T", he managed 40% of the vote with few resources.  Well, as someone recently said, the tide is turning.  Recently, the Cook PVI numbers showed a 4 point improvement and....well, read on

You Tube videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHDiuLzM4 8s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJsPCDqS2 pc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqWD529G6 j8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7npIgRV2 v0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJjKruMk8 pg

Happy Viewing !!!

PA09  Cleaning up PA

Congressional Candidate Tony Barr is cleaning up PA a little at a time.  Tony is starting with his own face.  Voters have chided Tony for his chin whiskers and man of the people that he is, Tony has finally come clean, so to speak.  Here is the first official commercial that will actually air.

http://www.youtube.com/v/BqWD529G6j8

I'm sitting in the Blair County Democratic Office as I type this and a voter is looking over my shoulder at the video, "He's got my vote, I'll tell ya that."  "Mr. Barr has my support 100%"

http://www.tonybarr2008.com
http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraiser s/18561

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One of the few good lines I ever heard from the comic Gallagher was this, "If the opposite of Pro is Con then the opposite of Progress must be Congress."  Now, I don't know where Gallagher lives but I'll bet that his district has a Representative a lot like Bill Shuster (R PA09)

http://www.youtube.com/v/BJsPCDqS2pc

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Well, unless the something extraordinary happens in Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania, it looks like we got ourselves a presidential nominee. Now, let's look at Congress.  If you live in PA, you know and despise the name of Bill Shuster, but for some reason people vote for him anyway, let's look at how he votes.

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