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October 7, 2008Patrick Murphy’s Public Relations firm, also known as Calkins Media, will see two of their Democrat-biased publications host debates among the three candidates vying for Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional district seat.
The Murphy-Courier-Times will prop Murphy up during a debate on October 15 at 2PM at Bristol’s Riverside Theater, and the MurphyIntelligencer will toss Murphy softball questions at Central Bucks West High School on October 29.
In addition to accidentally elected Democrat Congressman Patrick Murphy and Republican Tom Manion, Bucks County’s own Pat Paulsen candidate Tom Lingenfelter will participate in the events.
One of the questioners at the Murphy-Times event will be Gary Weckselblatt, who was last seen reporting on Patrick Murphy’s bumbling dry-mouthed Democrat Convention speech from a Patrick Murphy Watch Party and Phone Bank, trying to present the reaction of pro-Murphy partisans as if they were representative of the population at large in a report entitled “Murphy Delivers in Prime Time.”
Bucks Right was able to obtain Weckselblatt’s scratch pad that reveals a draft of the questions he plans to pose to the candidates.
To Pat: Tell us how you met your lovely wife Jennifer.
To Evil Manion: Inexperienced pretender Manion, please describe how Republicans ruined the economy.
To Pat: Would you like to come to dinner with my family?
To Pat: How did you get so dreamy?
To Scary Manion: Big pharma candidate Manion, why do Republicans want to poison our water and kill our children?
To Lingenfelter: Describe your greatest problem with the Manion candidacy.
How did the Manion campaign allow Weckselblatt to be a questioner, and why did they agree to appear with spoiler Lingenfelter?
Republican Tom Manion, challenging accidentally elected PA-8 Democrat Congresskiddie Patrick Murphy, has released a new commercial. Since I was less than enthusiastic about Manion’s first commercial, I thought it only fair to point out how enthusiastically in favor I am of this most recent commercial.
Manion’s commercial points out the appearance of impropriety in Patrick Murphy accepting $14,000 in donations from accused tax-cheat and ethics abuser Congressman Charlie Rangel and then voting a $2,000,000 earmark in Rangel’s direction.
30 seconds isn’t enough time to outline the full swirl of charges against Rangel or how Murphy has chosen to look the other way when it comes to Rangel, but I think Rangel’s ethical problems are pretty well-known by now.
The commercial is below.
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Despite a growing number of ethics charges against New York Democrat Congressman Charlie Rangel, Democrat Patrick Murphy stubbornly refuses to sever ties with the Congressman and return the reported $15,000 he’s received from Rangel’s “leadership” political action committee.
Rangel, who heads the House Ways and Means Committee that creates tax law, is accused of being a tax cheat and power abuser. He is reported to have hidden $75,000 in income on his tax returns and used public funds to raise money for a “Center for Public Service” bearing his name. Rangel’s unregistered Mercedez-Benz was towed from the House of Representative parking garage for violation of congressional rules last week. Rangel recently lashed out against Governor Sarah Palin, calling her “disabled,” and against those trying to detangle his tax mess as conducting a “guerilla war,” even as he was paying the $10,800 in back State and Federal taxes.
None of this bothers paragon of electoral virtue Patrick Murphy, though. He’s got Rangel’s big, fat check in his election coffers, and he’s not letting it go without a fight.
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It’s mid-September. Most Bucks County residents are days away from the sticker shock that will result from receiving their first tank of oil for the coming winter. Wall Street is in the throes of an unraveling credit market, sending stock prices tumbling and people’s 401ks into the red, with Congressional Democrats directly culpable and complicit in mandating that mortgages be given to people who cannot afford to pay them back in areas where values do not appreciate.
It’s mid-September in an election climate as described above. PA Congressional candidate Tom Manion has released his first television ad of the campaign season, and it’s about…Iraq.
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Patrick Murphy’s puppeteer Nancy Pelosi has asked Representative Charlie Rangel, a significant donor to the Murphy campaign, to step down from his Chairmanship of the House’s Ways and Means Committee in response to the serious and “explosive” corruption allegations facing Rangel according to the New York Post.
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ESPN analyst Sal Paolantonio will headline a September 16 fund-raising event to benefit Congressional candidate Tom Manion in his bid to ouster accidentally elected PA-8 Democrat Congressman Patrick Murphy. The event is being held at Doylestown clothier Ventresca’s, which caters to high-end customers such as local sports stars.
[Manion] may need more than a little help from the man known by some Philly sports fans as “Sal Pal” on the fund-raising front. According to the Federal Election Commission, Murphy had 2.2 million on hand, compared to about $500,000 for Manion at the end of June.
“Abortion kills an unborn, developing human life. It is always gravely evil, and so are the evasions employed to justify it. Catholics who make excuses for it - whether they’re famous or not - fool only themselves and abuse the fidelity of those Catholics who do sincerely seek to follow the Gospel and live their Catholic faith.” - Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput
Patrick Murphy, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, proclaims himself to be Catholic when it’s electorally advantageous. But, like the Speaker and the Senator, Murphy seems to have made the cold calculation that it’s also electorally advantageous to occasionally buck the church’s central teachings. Such is the case when it comes to ending innocent life.
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In an apparent attempt to obscure the strict anti-rights stand he has taken during his accidental first term in Congress, Pennsylvania’s Congressman Patrick “Li’l Pat” Murphy has begun playing both sides of the Second Amendment as the November election nears.
Murphy’s puppeteer benefactors in the radical anti-Second Amendement crowd funneled $5,000 to Murphy during his 2006 campaign. Now they seem stunned that Nancy Pelosi’s Mini-Me is suddenly interested in actually representing the will of his district. Don’t worry liberty grabbers, Murphy’s just saying what he has to say if he wants to have any small chance of duping us into re-electing him.
U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, whose Bucks County district includes a sliver of Northeast Philadelphia, is taking flak from gun-control groups for his support of a bill loosening gun regulations in the District of Columbia.
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Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire NJ, expresses outrage. “As I understand it, Murphy is joined at the hip to [U.S. Rep.] John Murtha, and Murtha is a tied-at-the-hip NRA [National Rifle Association] guy,” Miller said. “I don’t see any other reason why a suburban Philadelphia Democrat, with Philadelphia going through the horrible throes of gun violence, would sign onto a bill making the availability of guns so much greater in D.C. I think, frankly, [Murphy] should be ashamed of himself.”
Snowflakes in Hell picks apart the argument deftly and exposes Murphy’s weak, newly adopted election year obfuscation of his gun position.
So by Bryan’s logic, since [Murphy] hangs around Murtha a lot, surely he must be pro-gun right? That’s not entirely true. He is a supporter of Congresswoman McCarthy’s ban on most semi-automatic firearms, and never signed on to a Congressional Amicus brief to end the ban. It’s hardly surprising that Congressman Murphy, close to an election, is signing onto pro-gun bills in an effort to placate Bucks County’s numerous gun owners, hunters, and shooters. If this represents a turnaround on behalf of the Congressman, I welcome that, but until he takes his name off McCarthy’s bill, forgive me if I suggest Bryan Miller has no clue what he’s talking about when he tries to paint Patrick Murphy as too pro-gun.
Personally, I wouldn’t be surprised if this Murphy-Miller animus was a phony controversy concocted by the Murphy campaign to boost his gun bona fides in the eyes of voters during the election season.
Hey, this isn’t the way it was supposed to work. After two years of hearing that the Republican “brand” is damaged beyond repair and nothing could stop the bleeding of House and Senate seats to Democrats this fall, something strange happened. Reality.
Public support for Republican Party candidates to the House of Representatives increased dramatically this month in the United States, according to a poll by Gallup released by USA Today. 50 per cent of respondents would vote for the GOP contender in their congressional district, up eight points since August.
Democratic Party contenders are second with 45 per cent, down six points in a month. Six per cent of respondents would vote for other candidates or are undecided.
It seems the public hasn’t really taken a liking to the direction in which no-drill Nancy and her puppets like Li’l Patrick Murphy are taking the country.
Fear not, Bucks County residents. Your hard working Congressman, Patrick “Li’l Pat” Murphy was back in Washington yesterday, fresh and rested from his 5-week vacation judging zucchini, ready to attend to the pressing matters effecting your family and your wallet.
YES WE CAN have Theodore Roosevelt United States Courthouse in Brooklyn New York!
YES WE CAN have Spottswood W. Robinson III and Robert R. Merhige, Jr. Federal Courthouse in Richmond, Virginia!
Off-shore drilling or nuclear power to alleviate our dependence on foreign energy provided by countries that hate us? Ummm…apparently no we still can’t.
