McHugh Watch

March 8, 2012

Fighting The Last War

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Yes the war drags on. A mounting pile of American bodies. Thousands of soldiers whose bodies have been wrecked. Families put under enormous strain. Veterans left abandoned in rat infested quarters. The horrific mass of dead and suffering Iraqis. But who’s counting and in any case should we? Down the road, this will may seem a small price to pay in the grand game of oil supply geopolitics.. The thirst for oil of China and India grows apace, and we may run out before you can

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He’s at it again: Votes against before voting for

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It is a contention of this author that in order to plumb the actual proclivities of our congressman, it is necessary to look beyond the main votes and look at what happens in the arcane parliamentary procedure that precedes the main vote. Consistency of thought and action is a very powerful measure of the true intents of an individual.

Mr. McHugh has strong union backing even though in the past he as only voted 40% of the time with the interests of organized labor. This past Friday he voted for HR 800, the Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 that

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McHugh and the Military Health Care Scandal

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During his last campaign for Congress, Dr. Bob Johnson repeatedly faulted John McHugh for neglecting his responsibility to provide effective congressional oversight. Now that McHugh stands accused of bearing direct responsibility for permitting a military health care scandal that has been in the making ever since the invasion of Iraq, we know how right he was.

At the end of last week the Bush administration was forced to take pre-emptive action by a series of Washington Post exposes of the deplorable out-patient care of our wounded soldiers

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