WHO IS THE NEXT MARJORIE MARGOLIES-MELINSKY?
From LATimes.com: “She was a fresh force in politics, a former TV journalist who won election to Congress in 1992 from a district outside Philadelphia that Republicans had held since 1916. Promising to oppose new tax hikes and fight to hold down federal spending, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky came to Congress on President Clinton’s coattails. Then she became the margin of victory for Clinton’s 1993 budget, which actually eliminated the deficit for the first time in decades by raising federal taxes on the middle class…She was defeated in the next election….Now, as Democrats try to corral the needed votes to push President Obama’s healthcare reform package across the finish line, conservatives have made no secret that they plan to use the same playbook to defeat moderates in usually Republican districts who vote for the bill.” By Code Red