Kanjorski In Trouble

From CQ Politics:

Pa. Is Keystone in House GOP’s Path to Majority
By Greg Giroux, CQ-Roll Call

Roll Call’s current House race ratings include 10 of Pennsylvania’s 19 districts as among the 104 districts that will hold competitive elections this fall — the most in any state.

“Pennsylvania will be the ultimate bellwether this year, because we have more competitive congressional seats than any other state in the union,” said Charlie Gerow, a Pennsylvania-based Republican strategist. “Pennsylvania is, it’s fair to say in the red-blue continuum, a very purple state right now.

Another Pennsylvania rematch will take place in the Scranton-area 11th district, where 13-term Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski (D) will face Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta (R) for the third time in eight years. The congressman won their most recent race, in 2008, by just over 3 points.

Kanjorski’s weakness in the Democratic primary — he won just 49 percent of the vote against two challengers — suggests he will have trouble holding the Democratic base in a district that usually votes strongly for that party. Kanjorski will tout his seniority as helpful to Pennsylvania.

In this article by Charles Schillinger of the Times Shamrock the writer asks the question "Will Kanjorski face anti-incumbent fervor?"

About 17 percent of primary voters, 12,000 Democrats, cast ballots for challenger Brian W. Kelly, an unknown outsider running on a Tea Party movement platform who has no political experience, raised no money and said he did not do any door-to-door campaigning.

That voters from Kanjorski's own party were so willing to embrace an unknown over their senior congressman "should be troubling" for Kanjorski, said his general election foe, Republican Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta.

In a three-way race, Kanjorski won 49 percent of the vote - 15 percent more than his closest competitor, O'Brien, who received 34 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results.

For an incumbent who wants to tout his seniority he couldn't even capture half the votes of his own party in the primary. Kanjorski and Mitchell have more than homework to do. They have to figure out how to save their sinking ship. For Arlen Specter the agony is over. Kanjorski may experience a slow painful process.

Kanjorski makes the claim "Democrats have a lot of work to do to sell their message to their constituency," Kanjorski said. "We literally saved our country. When we do get that (message) out, we'll get the loyal response from the Democratic electorate.

What Paul is really saying is that our granchildren and their children saved our country. It is their money that he, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid used to triple the national debt. Our siblings will be stuck with the tab.

Obama Hits Record Deficit $1.4 Trillion-CBO

Associated Press writer Andrew Taylor pens an article on ABCNews.com that the Congressional Budget Office estimates our federal deficit at $1.4 trillion dollars for the fiscal year that ended last week.

From Paul Kanjorski's website:

Barletta Claim: Congress failed to provide the oversight necessary when passing the $700 billion economic rescue plan.


THE TRUTH. Paul Kanjorski believes that the rescue law is part of a comprehensive solution. It will help to stabilize the economy and safeguard the financial security of average Americans. Congress must now pass additional laws, like a new economic rescue that Paul Kanjorski is working to draft, to get our economy back on track.


•Paul Kanjorski worked with his colleagues to significantly alter the initial Treasury plan in order to ensure that it would work as intended, protect taxpayers, limit the financial windfalls of executives at the distressed companies getting help, establish strong oversight watchdogs, provide transparency, and control overall costs.
•As part of a comprehensive response, the House is already working on a new economic recovery bill to help average Americans, and the Speaker has tapped Paul Kanjorski to serve on a task force developing this plan.

How's that economic recovery plan that you claim ownership working for you? You call what you wrote as the truth!!!

Unemployment 9.5% quickly to reach over 10%. Obamanomics failed stimulus plan hasn't created jobs, it's lost them. Thank God the Europeans didn't listen to Obama with a Europorkulus plan of their own. They are already on the road to recovery. A friend is in France right now. He said the exchange rate sucks. No wonder our dollar continues on the decline.

France and Germany actually exited the recession last quarter. The leaders of both nations specifically and publicly rejected Obama's cries for Europorkulus. "It would be irresponsible to chose another policy, which would increase our country's indebtedness without having more infrastructure and increased competitiveness in the end," French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said at the time.

Yes, even the French have been more fiscally responsible in dealing with the recession than the Obama administration and the Democrat directorate in Congress.

And even though "Germany, with its heavy exports dependence, has been particularly badly hit by the global recession," its economy, too has turned the corner. Citizens of Germany should be glad that Chancellor Merkel didn't heed the call to resort to Obamanomics.

Paul Kanjorski- Bad Ideas, Bad Judgment