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Will Altmire Walk the Plank?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB…Imagine Jason Altmire bound, at the end of a plank, a band of Democratic pirates behind him, a swarm of constituent sharks circling below. Imagine that, and you understand what Democrats are doing to their members with health care.
Mr. Altmire is the Pennsylvania House Democrat who has become a key possible switch vote in his party's plans to pass unpopular health legislation. The second-termer voted no on the first House bill for the simple reason that it offended his constituents and his own supposed principles on cost and taxes. But with Mrs. Pelosi short on votes, Mr. Altmire is being made to reconsider. In the process he's becoming a symbol of the political abyss to which Democrats are consigning their "majority makers."
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I live in his district, he represents me. I heavily urged him via letter, E-mail and phone call to stick with his previous vote.