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For Privateers Sununu and Gregg, Ideology Trumps Shame

by: Dean Barker

Thu Jul 10, 2008 at 07:25:22 AM EDT
Senator Kennedy had to come from his cancer treatment to ensure that government privateers Sununu and Gregg didn't win the day:
Despite pressure from local physician and senior groups, New Hampshire Sen. John Sununu voted against a bill to eliminate payment cuts for doctors who treat patients with Medicare.

Nevertheless, the bill moved forward yesterday, thanks to Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, who came from a cancer treatment in Boston to Washington to supply a crucial vote. The bill had been one vote shy of a 60-vote, veto-proof margin needed to bring it forward, and advocacy groups have been pushing aggressively to make Sununu that deciding vote. Sununu, a Republican, is up for re-election this year. Polls favor his Democratic rival, former governor Jeanne Shaheen.

After Kennedy's unexpected appearance, several Republicans who had previously voted against the measure switched sides. Sununu and New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg continued to vote no.

This anecdote alone, in a just world,  would be career ending for our two "public servants."
Dean Barker :: For Privateers Sununu and Gregg, Ideology Trumps Shame
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For Privateers Sununu and Gregg, Ideology Trumps Shame | 3 comments
I'm very hopeful (4.00 / 1)
Shaheen will be a leader on the health care front. My position on this most resembles Kucinich's, though.

But doesn't Sununu seem eerily quiet? Will they come out of the woodwork with more dirty tactics?

I hope the Shaheen campaign builds enough momentum to quash whatever sleaze Sununu can come up with.

We need access to health care, like, yesterday.(50 years ago!)  

cash he has (0.00 / 0)
Sununu's sitting on his large cash stash...and will use it to buy media hammer time closer to the election. Shaheen is doing everything right politically speaking. Being ahead in the polls is meaningless, unless you continue to hammer away at the scooting senator every day, as she is. Going at the science argument is agressive and smart. He has not been above 50% approval for ages, a terrible sign for him, so attacking his basic credibility will increase that lead.  

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg
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Monitor screws up on high-school civics (4.00 / 3)
The bill had been one vote shy of a 60-vote, veto-proof margin

A "veto-proof margin" is 67 votes.

The 60 vote margin is what is needed to overcome a filibuster.

The media doesn't bother to report that the do-nothing Republican Party has made the filibuster a standard part of Senate procedure rather than an exceptional privilege.

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