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Attack ads prove Titus is doing her job
Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 | 2:01 a.m.
What do you know? We have a representative in Congress, Dina Titus, who is actually representing the people of her district and not just the insurance companies and moneyed interests. Good for her and good for us for electing her.
Unlike her predecessor, she must be working effectively for us middle-class folks — I can tell from the vehement TV ads against her that are paid for by the same people who have given us the world’s 30th-ranked medical system at astronomical costs, two wars we don’t need, a banking crisis, a collapse in home values, a record recession, unemployment of shameful proportions, a barely functional Nevada education system — need I go on?
And they want us to call Congresswoman Titus and say she’s wrong! My god, what chutzpah those at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have. They should be hanging their heads in shame instead of harassing someone who, for a change, is sticking up for the people of Nevada and not the people who want to grab their money.
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Hey David: It was the insurance companys and the money interests that put her in office in the first place you moron.
hey dave...
excellent letter...
it is amazing that more people just can not see that the those commercials against titus prove beyond all doubt that we need health care reform...
they are obviously produced and paid for by the greedy pig insurance companies and their very real death panels...
the very fact that they put those commercials out is conclusive evidence that we are on the right track...
it really is very simple...
you either support the public option...
or...
you support the greedy pig insurance companies and their very real death panels and the money grubbing whore doctors...
period...
end of story...
mandingo, I guess stargate sg1 killed alot of colores also. You know those Jaffa were tricky. The Ori came and destructed a lot worlds including colored people. Thank goodness we had Teal'c and Master Bre'tec or the galaxy would have been lost. Hollow are the Ori.
I sent Titus an email protesting her vote on the House version of the universal health care, specifically the criminal sanctions hidden in it for not participating (up to five years in prison and a $250k fine -- it's a federal felony). One is herded into an online form. All I got back was a puff piece about how great the bill was, absolutely zero addressed this concern.
So much for being represented.
All I have seen Dina Taxus do since going to Washington was vote for the Freecare for Freeloaders bill which does not help the productive middle class but only the Parasite Class. Dump her in 2010.
dina titus has guts...
to stand up the loud mouth cry baby stupid pathetic lying republicans...
they are children...
itty bitty children...
boo hoo hoo...
just like the clowns that post on these boards...
wah wah wah...
go dina go...
vegas loves you baby!!!
Burrito: where did you learn to speak Mandingoese? I've tried to ask him about the Coffman Plantation but he ignores my questions. As the perp said to Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, "I gotsta know!"
My wife and I voted for Dina and we initially were encouraged that she would/could be independent of the Evil witch of the West. Oh HECK, she proved us wrong.
news flash mandingo-Col O'NEIL saved the galaxy numerous times and thank god for Carter. Did anybody notice how HOT Samantha Carter is?
David J.M., your second sentence tells us that you have no idea on what is taking place here.
"We have a Representative, Dina Titus, who is actually representing the people of her district...". This statement is sadly enough true. She is representing the people and not the citizens.
As with Harry Reid and Shelly Berkley, Dina is oblivious to the fact that no one is providing SAVE in these bills that will keep illegals from recieving benefits from these plans. Now that she is playing in the big leagues as with Shelly and Harry she is finding out that it is more profitable for her to side with what big business wants over what is good for the citizen.
We have got to stay aware of what is taking place in our government, because not all the time when one side of our elected officials is telling us they are looking out for us the other side of them is doing the exact opposite.
David J.M., these attack ads are proving that we need vote out these politicians who are doing " we the people" an injustice.
Mike, I don't know what the hell I'm speaking. Thank goodness for Col O'neil, Carter, Dr Daniel Jackson, Teal'c, Master Bre'tec, the asgards, the Tolkra, the Jaffa free nation, Epsiode 10, the movie ark of truth and the academy, and last but not least John Wayne.
Burrito: whatever it is, thank goodness you're speaking it fluently! Rosetta Stone? Let's all chip in and send Dingo an English-language tutorial.
Mike I had a ZAT weapon a minute ago and then those nasty libs took it away from me, said it would be much SAFER with them and I wouldn't ZAT anybody that deserved it. Carter..........
"We have a representative in Congress, Dina Titus, who is actually representing the people of her district "
Every single legit poll says that more Nevadans and Americans are against these bill then are for them.
I guess she has already written off her re-election bid.
Where we as a State really screwed up was when we failed to elect Titus to be Governor. Then we wouldn't be any worse off than we are now on that front and we could have someone decent in Congress instead. We'd only be getting hosed on a state level instead of both the state and national levels.
Great article David. The corporate interests are obviously scared that Titus is not willing to bend to their demands. She is representing the will of the majority of her district, which is exactly what she should do in a representative democracy.
"She is representing the will of the majority of her district, which is exactly what she should do in a representative democracy."
Every poll in Nevada says that nearly 55% of Nevadans are against those bills.
Her district is a mix district.
She has written off getting re-elected.
She is working against the wishes of the people in her district.
I guess she is homesick and wants to come back home and teach.
Dina Titus is doing a great job.
The majority of Nevadans agree that sgt. rock
is an idiot and a liar.
"She is working against the wishes of the people in her district."
Based on what, exactly? Some random poll that doesn't represent Titus' district?
More hot air from Sgt Nance.
ksand, how is letting the health reform bill pass and allowing House members to take SAVE, which weeds out the illegals trying to take advantage of the health bill, from this bill? This article states that she is representing the people of her district, not the citizens. What more do you want?
If a politician who has been voted in by the people cannot support the people 100% of the time, especially on the immigration issue, how can we trust them to be doing their job 100% of the time?
teamster/gmag/birdie: have you actually polled the citizens of Nevada? Your powers are fascinating.
mike:
Yes I have.