HA-HA-HA-HA. And people say radical socialists aren't funny. Vote in 2010 to curb this insanity and in 2012 to get a leader in office.(no need to worry about the RINO Anh Cao being returned to office as a Repub)
A few years before he became president, John F. Kennedy wrote Profiles in Courage on the lives of John Quincy Adams, Sam Houston, Daniel Webster and Robert Taft, among others -- men of principles who acted courageously, disregarding political adversities.
In the time we are living, it was refreshing indeed to watch U.S. Rep. Anh Cao, the Vietnamese-American Republican from Louisiana, casting the only Republican vote for the passage of the Democratic health-care legislation. He acknowledged that it might hurt his political career, but it was the right decision -- a decision of conscience based on the need of the people of my district.
It is not only a lesson of courage to his peers, but also to the 39 yellow-dog Democrats who followed them.
Joaquin Godoy, Aiken, S.C.
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HA-HA-HA-HA. And people say radical socialists aren't funny. Vote in 2010 to curb this insanity and in 2012 to get a leader in office.(no need to worry about the RINO Anh Cao being returned to office as a Repub)
Hopefully Americans will throw the baby (Cao) out with the bathwater (Obama). If you don't think this country is in trouble look at what China is doing to the dollar. Yet we continue to borrow to pay for special projects like health care and so on. Think about it!
Well Godoy assumptin that Kenedy wrote profiles in courage is wrong, it seems Theodore Sorensen , Kennedy's speach writer wrote Profiles in Courage! Cao was just to ignorant at the time and voted for a 1000+ page bill that will do nothing for health care except extend governments screwing up health care. An excellent example where I work. There is a national shorgate of a drug. We use another equally effective drug but the vials have about 3 times the amount of drug you need. We waste 2/3 of the drug becuase under FEDERAL BILLING REGULATIONS you can not divide the vial for two differant people...Federal regulation saving health care dollars...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and Pelosi has created 1000+ pages of that cr*p!
Cao voted "yes" not due to his "courage" but because he got a "commitment" from President Obama to help his district financially. In other words, he voted against his fellow Republicans for exactly NOTHING!
JIC, let's see some evidence for your assertion that Cao was essentially bribed...and not some whacknut blog, please.
HotFoot, how do you think the voting system in congress works?
Here you go HOT FOOT: need more evidence? Note this is a Time Magazine source... "But by far the most amount of pressure came from Cantor and the White House. Obama pledged to work with Cao on additional financial aid for his district, especially in disaster loan forgiveness, and on help paying for expanded Medicaid services under the bill in the years to come." Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/08/who-is-cao/#ixzz0X1qxbkPL
Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8
Sounds like vote buying to me. I read about that the day after it happened.
Cao said: "Today, I obtained a commitment from President Obama that he and I will work together to address the critical health care issues of Louisiana including the FMAP crisis and community disaster loan forgiveness, as well as issues related to Charity and Methodist Hospitals. And, I call on my constituents to support me as I work with him on these issues." - From his web site - to explain his "yes" vote.
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