Coleman aide won’t side with McCain’s health care plan.
Coleman aide won’t side with McCain’s health care plan.
The Center for American Progress Action Fund reported last month that 3.1 million Minnesotans could lose their employer health benefits under Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) health care plan, which would also lead to “major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid.” Recently, Luke Friedrich, an aide to Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), was asked four times whether Coleman supports McCain’s plan. Each time, he refused to back McCain, only claiming that Coleman “is aligned with Senator Coleman’s plan”:
FRIEDRICH: Well, Senator Coleman is aligned with Senator Coleman’s plan and I think that’s the point that I want to make here. [...]
Q: If Senator McCain’s bill came up for a vote, how would the Senator vote on it?
FRIEDRICH: Again, it would depend on what was in the bill. … I’m sure, some things that will line up. I mean, they are both pretty comprehensive plans. I’m sure there are some things that line up from Senator Obama’s plan as well.
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> only claiming that Coleman
> “is aligned with Senator Coleman’s plan”
did he remember to also say that tax reductions should be accompanied by reductions in taxes?
in all fairness to Coleman, his being aligned with his own plan IS more consistent than john mccain has been about the immigration bill he wrote..
October 6th, 2008 at 10:18 pmThis is too rich – not only are repugs running from dur chimpfurher, they are now backing off mcinsane/palin.
This has to be unprecidented in US history – probably in ANY “democracy”.
LOL
Oh – I am using “democracy” because the repugs/neocons have largely destroyed it.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:22 pmNobody has the stomach to fight for what we really need! Vive la France! Vive le difference!
October 6th, 2008 at 10:31 pmDoc – all we really need are organized economic boycotts of the corpocracy that is actually behind it all. It would take little sacrifice, but it would take leadership from those that have built little empires as “advertise liberally” or self-proclaimed progressives.
Until then, we are reduced to just another version of atrio’s 101st keyboarding brigade.
Sure, many of us don’t spend money with the likes of home depot, applebees, walmart, and staples, but they don’t care at all unless someone can make it an organized effort that makes it clear why shoppers are staying away.
Until that happens, the interests that created dur chimpfurher and mclame/palin will always find folks that will stand in front of the cameras and do their dirty work while they laugh all the way to the bank.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:39 pmAh yes, we know Norm well here in Minnesota.
The Bush lap dog with the phony-sounding Kennedy accent. It gives him that populist edge he needs, to counteract his Robin Hood-in-reverse political philosophies.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:47 pmMust be about time for him to switch party affiliation again, huh? Maybe he’ll also unconvert from his convenient moral majority Christianity and attend the synagogue again, as well. One thing Norm Coleman knows is what’s best for Norm Coleman and blessed with a certain moral ambiguity, he is tremendously flexible in his positions. If the country turns left, he’ll probably grow his hair out and start smoking pot to try to get in with the cool kids. Brooks Brothers suits and hypocritical morality (see link) got him in with his current crowd.
http://mickeymusing.vox.com/library/post/senator-coleman-votes-against-stem-cell-research.html
October 7th, 2008 at 12:40 ammmanion Says:
mickey,
thanks for the link.
what a creep!
^
October 7th, 2008 at 12:55 amWhat do the polls in Minnesota look like between Coleman and Al Franken?
Just askin’
¶ AIO
October 7th, 2008 at 1:00 amalphainfinityomega Says:
What do the polls in Minnesota look like between Coleman and Al Franken?
Just askin’
¶ AIO
as of october 4th.
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October 7th, 2008 at 1:10 am# 9 — Thanks Joe, I hope the Princeton poll holds up.
¶ AIO
October 7th, 2008 at 1:28 amI can tell you how Wellstone would have voted.
Nurm can buddyhug Bush as the good ship neocon sinks aflame. I think the one time I recall him “standing up” to the party he was doing it alongside Ted Stevens… blech.
If the election is clean Franken will win, but we’ll see plenty of attempts and actual caging. Something tells me the Somali population, both Black and predominantly Muslim, will see some “irregularities.” Personally I’d have them register GOP just to get a counted ballot.
October 7th, 2008 at 1:40 amIt’s plain, that even looking from Spain, that McCain is mainly insane…
October 7th, 2008 at 1:41 amSorry about the OT but, it looks like Bible Spice’s BFF Ted Stevens got caught on tape.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE4957E420081007?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
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Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says:
It’s plain, that even looking from Spain, that McCain is mainly insane…
October 7th, 2008 at 1:41 am
SPECIALLY when looking from Spain.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:55 amNorm, go back to the East Coast where you fit in.
You’ve never been a true Minnesotan; you’re just a bad politician who changes direction every time the wind blows.
You lost the Governor’s race in ‘98 to Jesse Ventura.
You got in the Senate due to Paul Wellstone’s untimely death.
You’re a Bush hugger, a corporate schill & a loser.
Good riddance!
October 7th, 2008 at 9:01 amLiving in Minnesota I know all about Norm Coleman, switching to the Repub party when the wind was blowing that way, cozy with all of Bush’s policies. His ads against Al Frankin have been absolutely vicious smears about Frankin’s character. I know a woman, cute blond former Viking cheerleader who was at a dinner last spring, seated next to Norm Coleman, and the upstanding, righteous Norm groped her – with her husband seated at the same table. He makes me gag. He is 9 points behind Frankin at the moment.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:26 am