NY-23 Congressman Bill Owens took one hour to break four campaign promises.
After being sworn into the US House the New York democrat announced that he had changed his mind and would endorse Pelosi’s nationalized health care plan after all.
The Gouverneur reported, via RedState:
Congressman-elect Bill Owens was sworn in at noon today.
Owens indicated in a press release that he was now in favor of the bill in direct contrast to his earlier position during his campaign.
According to Politico.com, Mr. Owens assured voters that he felt the public option had no place in the health care reform bill. Contrary to that position, Mr. Owens now indicates that he intends to vote in favor of the bill even though it now contains a public option.
Of course, this surprises no one.
November 7th, 2009 | 9:04 am | #1
The perfect bait and switch!
And there ain’t a thing one the voters can do except wait until the next election!
November 7th, 2009 | 9:06 am | #2
…oh yeah I forgot….
Don’t forget boys and girls the rebublican’s do the same thing though not as blatant…but they still do it.
Time to through everyone out of congress…
http://www.goooh.com
November 7th, 2009 | 9:09 am | #3
Democrats are known for doublespeak. Look at Obama he broke all the promises he made during the election. Owens is a liar.
November 7th, 2009 | 9:09 am | #4
Thanks, Dede.
November 7th, 2009 | 9:11 am | #5
Communists lie,
Socialists lie,
Obama lies,
Democrats lie.
It’s the only way they can get the pile of crap society they dream about you having.
2010 is going to be simple, vote Democrats out of office everywhere you find them.
November 7th, 2009 | 9:14 am | #6
He’s only there ’til 2010, right? NY 23 should recall his lying ass. Thanks, DeDe! You’re like the wierd Aunt that won’t leave a family gathering until EVERYONE is pissed off and uncomfortable. Death to RINOs!
November 7th, 2009 | 9:14 am | #7
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November 7th, 2009 | 9:15 am | #8
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November 7th, 2009 | 9:17 am | #9
When will the electorate finally grasp the simple fact they must examine a candidate’s past actions to evaluate any such promises and have the faintest hope to divine future action? Have the pablum and drivel of public “education” fully eliminated the majority’s ability to reason?
November 7th, 2009 | 9:23 am | #10
Dede would have done the same thing, she would just have taken 3 hours over the one.
November 7th, 2009 | 9:37 am | #11
[...] On the order of a “dog bites man” story: Dem Bill Owens Takes 1 Hour to Break 4 Campaign Promises. [...]
November 7th, 2009 | 9:43 am | #12
He might as well vote the hail mary he is a one year guy anyhow.
November 7th, 2009 | 9:45 am | #13
Dede would have taken 4 hours to break 4 promises since she would have stopped by the Congressional Buffet for some lunch and two or three servings of dessert. I’m just saying….
November 7th, 2009 | 9:46 am | #14
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November 7th, 2009 | 9:48 am | #15
Better to have a liberal do it then to have a rino sign on.
November 7th, 2009 | 9:52 am | #16
It’s not Bill Owens. Bill Owens was elected because the Union voters in NY-23 care more about their paychecks and pensions, then they do about their grandchildren’s future. It’s that simple. These brainwashed democrat-voting-union-members don’t see that America is being dismantled by these insidious power hungry parasites. While many American Patriots are giving up their time and paychecks to save America, we have democrat Congressmen like Barney Frank, with their gay lovers smoking pot, and making fun of Patriot Michele Bachman for trying to save our great land. When will the Unions across America stop being selfish, and quit helping the democrats DESTROY AMERICA????????????????
November 7th, 2009 | 9:59 am | #17
Can you think what would happen if a business or a contractor acted like that…?
What if a car dealer decided not to honor his warranty agreements ?
What would happen to him?
What if a health club enticed you to join for a low monthly rate then just doubled the monthly fee after you signed up…..?
They would be in trouble.
These Democrats are simply unbelievable in the way that they blatantly lie right to your face.
It is their number one most common trait.
The suckers in NY 23 got what they voted for.
November 7th, 2009 | 10:07 am | #18
Bill Owens was elected because the Union voters in NY-23 care more about their paychecks and pensions, then they do about their grandchildren’s future. It’s that simple. These brainwashed democrat-voting-union-members don’t see that America is being dismantled by these insidious power hungry parasites. While many American Patriots are giving up their time and paychecks to save America, we have democrat Congressmen like Barney Frank, with their gay lovers smoking pot, and making fun of Patriot Michele Bachman for trying to save our great land. When will the Unions across America stop being selfish, and quit helping the democrats DESTROY AMERICA????????????????
November 7th, 2009 | 10:11 am | #19
Duh
November 7th, 2009 | 10:13 am | #20
As long as Union voters keep voting for democrats, all in the name of being able to buy their next boat, or car, or whatever they think is more important than saving this country, then we will keep having these American-hating democrats representing us in our Government. If you look at the demographic that is the largest group keeping people like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Obama, and the rest of these America-destroying nut-jobs in power, it is the Union voters. They are brainwashed into believing that “Family Values” means their paycheck and pensions. They have already destroyed out car industry. True Patriots are giving up their time and paychecks to save America….and the unions just don’t care. Until we break this cycle of brainwashing that the unions are doing to our citizens, we are doomed.
November 7th, 2009 | 10:16 am | #21
Floor Fight…..10:16
C Span
November 7th, 2009 | 10:17 am | #22
Tune into C-Span for the lively debate.
November 7th, 2009 | 10:21 am | #23
Can they recall him?
November 7th, 2009 | 10:23 am | #24
This just shows that the democrats know full well that the socialist healthcare plan is not popular with the people, and in order for them to be elected, they must lie to the people to get their vote. Really disgusting – liars the lot of them….and they have absolutely no shame.
November 7th, 2009 | 10:25 am | #25
You go to a union meeting…they don’t let you make your own choice of where to shop. Instead of an intelligent debate, they peer-pressure you on how to vote. Democrat. Barney Frank. Nancy Pelosi. Barack Obama. They peer-pressure you what cars to buy. They peer-pressure you where to buy your groceries, instead of you deciding for yourself. They tell you that “you cannot have family values without a union paycheck and pension”. They tell you that all this “Crazy-Talk” of losing freedoms, and America being in trouble is just scare tactics. Put on your union hats and jackets and repeat after me: We are not losing our freedoms. We are not losing our freedoms. We are not losing our freedoms. We still have the American dream. We can still freely get loans to start businesses and make payroll. We don’t have the federal government telling us how to live our lives. Don’t let those crazy conservatives scare ya. Just keep voting democrat-union and close your eyes and plug your ears, and you will be just fine.
November 7th, 2009 | 10:25 am | #26
Another example of Hope and Change. Is anyone surprised?
November 7th, 2009 | 10:26 am | #27
Dingel tries as he might to silence opposition.
November 7th, 2009 | 10:51 am | #28
I find it sad to think that one day, not that long ago, a man’s word was his bond. A handshake was the only thing needed to seal a deal. Promises were kept and people had morals and values in which they entrusted to their children, etc.
Things like this push me further and further into looking for candidates that are ‘real’ people, honest people, people who are proud of their country and want to stand up and fight for her. People who aren’t willing to give up their moral character for a buck.
As for Owens and his ilk, I don’t know how they sleep at night.
November 7th, 2009 | 10:57 am | #29
Owens is doing exactly what he was elected to do. He’d best not buy a house in DC, despite what kind of sweetheart mortrgage deal he might get.
This government is a swamp, a crap loaded swamp.
November 7th, 2009 | 11:04 am | #30
But so and so had breast cancer.
What the fuk does that have to do with sh!ting on 85% of the country?
November 7th, 2009 | 11:08 am | #31
How can a 3 trillion dollar cost be affordable?
November 7th, 2009 | 11:10 am | #32
Suckazzz!
November 7th, 2009 | 11:15 am | #33
Besides costing trillions fines and prison time for failure to purchase health care is not anywhere close to freedom.It is not just a takeover of health care but a takeover of freedom and liberty.
November 7th, 2009 | 11:20 am | #34
As Gomer would say “Golly Durn, who would have thunk it?” No surprise here, folks. Just another lying piece of dung to deal with. Those who made fun of Hoffman’s appearance and his lack of “political savy, i.e. a political lite” should really feel good about this.
November 7th, 2009 | 11:21 am | #35
Well… come on… did anyone REALLY think this joker would stand by what he said pre-election? He’s seen the president do the double talk for months now, Congress for years… he knew darned good and well all he had to do was say one thing, get the job and do another.
He’s just a little more blatant, that’s all. And it’s kind of fitting. After all, he won because he got the endorsement following the Dede Debacle. It’s only right he should prove he’s a two-faced, double-dealing jerkbag by his actions.
Don’t get too miffed, Conservatives. The more they do this, the easier it’ll be to get ‘em gone next year. Just keep up the good fight.
November 7th, 2009 | 11:26 am | #36
Owens is a good little follower, doing as ordered and damn the people he lied to.
NY23rd, you elected this lying, low-life who has now joined Pelosi to californicate all America.
If that’s the kind of government you want, why didn’t you just move to California and spare the rest of America your utopian cesspool?
November 7th, 2009 | 11:26 am | #37
Almost all Democrats are like Owens. I used to be a Democrat, but I have morals and values so I had to leave the cesspool party.
Gay is not ok.
Abortion is not ok.
Marxism is not ok.
Unions are not ok.
Welfare is not ok.
Our cities are sh!tholes of liberal filth.
Put a LIBTARD in charge of ANYTHING and it quickly goes to hell.
We have created a society of amoral pigs, with their hands out.
November 7th, 2009 | 11:32 am | #38
Bill had this planned all along that is why Pelosi was chanting “we won!” This is a fine example of how dishonest our representatives are. Obviously Mr. Owens has no regard for the American people and is only concerned with his own agenda.
November 7th, 2009 | 11:39 am | #39
Hoyer was just bragging on how the dems have the votes to put another huge nail in the coffin of the US. He was thrilled to saddle our children with debt and to all but assure that seniors would be left to fend for themselves.
From Lenins 5 conditions of a successful revolution.
1) The weakening or destruction of the existing State and its institutions
November 7th, 2009 | 11:49 am | #40
Fact: There WAS (past tense) a time for unions to push American wages and pensions higher. That time was when large corporations were were prospering along with America, and not rewarding workers fairly. Now, America is on the brink of collapse. It may not happen fast, but it is happening. It’s not the minority vote, and the gay vote, and the feminist vote that is putting these democrats over the top in votes. They cannot vote these American-hating democrats into power without the large bloc of union votes. We will always have most of the gays, and most of the feminists voting for democrats. They will NEVER accept common sense. Minorities are starting to trend conservative because they see the nonsense in democrat policies. But we will not stop the destruction of America as long as union members keep sending these insidious democrats to government power. The time has come for people to educate these union members on how they need to think about their Country right now, and put their Country before their precious paychecks and pensions. What kind of America do they want to leave for their grandchildren??? John Adams rode hundreds of miles on horseback, during a freezing New England winter of 1776, and put aside his paycheck, he left his wife and children at their plain Massachussets farmhouse, to make it to the Continental Congress to SAVE AMERICA. He put his Country BEFORE his livelyhood. When will unions members start bucking the union leaders and vote for their Country. Look at the insane radicals that your are sending to Washington. Wake up America….before it’s too late.
November 7th, 2009 | 11:51 am | #41
With Democrats, the D after their name tells you everything you need to know. They don’t have real principles, other than power. Sure, when they go back to the sticks and talk to their constituents, the regional accent comes back, they start talking about “Faith” and “Family”, “God” and “Patriotism”, but on the Hill, it’s mid-Atlantic dialect, abortion, gay rights, the socialist agenda, thought crime legislation, union bosses, gun control, and whatever else the Party Elite orders.
What should be taken from all of this is that a so-called Conservative Democrat is nothing more than a blank page, a stooge who will gladly do whatever he is told in return for power, a lifestyle in Washington, DC and some opportunities for a little graft on the side for pocket money.
Leiberman was such a rarity that they actually kicked him out of the party and made anti-Semitic remarks about his wife’s name all because he dared stand up for his country and victory against Islamic terror, when what the party wanted was another Vietnam.
November 7th, 2009 | 12:17 pm | #42
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November 7th, 2009 | 12:40 pm | #43
Voters were viewed as chumps.
November 7th, 2009 | 12:54 pm | #44
Voters too stupid to know who and what they are voting for deserve what they get.
November 7th, 2009 | 12:55 pm | #45
By the way, Obama is aware that he is Commander in Chief, right? I mean, we didn’t see his grades, so he might have flunked US History and Con Law. Is he going to visit the troops at Fort Hood today? Or is he planning on Marxist politicking all day? I can’t imagine any real American President being held back from visiting the post after 13 people were slaughtered by a Muslim terrorist. Now, a Muslim Marxist President might just stay in Washington. George Bush would have been there before the shooting had stopped.
November 7th, 2009 | 1:11 pm | #46
[...] Of course, this surprises no one. (H/T – Gateway Pundit) [...]
November 7th, 2009 | 1:13 pm | #47
Elector of Saxony, blacks do not fail in Ivy League Schools. Read Chewbacca Michelle’s thesis. I could have written it in 6th grade.
Seriously. Libtards pat the heads of nice black people and give them A’s and B’S, just for being there.
Commisar Obama did not have stellar grades at Occidental, Columbia nor Harvard. If he did, we would have heard about them.
November 7th, 2009 | 1:17 pm | #48
Well now we can see that Nan did know something we (and more importantly Owens’ district) didn’t!
Gillibrand and now Owens… when are the so-called conservatives going to learn. There is no such thing as a Blue Dog.
November 7th, 2009 | 1:20 pm | #49
O/T FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, have visited wounded soldiers and their families after the mass shooting at Fort Hood.
The Bushes made their private visit to Fort Hood’s Darnall Army Medical Center on Friday night. Bush spokesman David Sherzer said in an e-mail that the couple thanked Fort Hood’s military leaders and hospital staff for the “amazing care they are providing.”
No entourage of journalists snapping pictures for the covers of their useless magazines or newspapers. President Bush a real man and leader.
November 7th, 2009 | 1:26 pm | #50
George Bush has something that Obama and his angry wife will never have.
Class. In fact clearly Obama has no idea what class is. But he does give a good “shout out”.
November 7th, 2009 | 1:36 pm | #51
This is a great story: HS names autistic (but popular) boy Homecoming King.
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/11/following-24-hours-of-really-terrible-news-heres-something-good-ellington-high-school-names-hardwork.html
November 7th, 2009 | 1:41 pm | #52
The term “Blue Dog” is a myth. Just like the term “G-Spot.”
November 7th, 2009 | 1:51 pm | #53
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November 7th, 2009 | 1:55 pm | #54
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November 7th, 2009 | 1:26 pm | #50
Exactly what I thought when I read the note… Class. They are and were a class act. The Won is too busy trying to ruin this country to visit the troops.
November 7th, 2009 | 1:58 pm | #55
Obama lied and run as a centrist during the election. All these corrupt officials will do the same. Bait and switch. Dump all the democrats incumbent who will vote for this monstrosity. Deny them of benefitting of all power and money.
November 7th, 2009 | 2:16 pm | #56
How can a 3 trillion dollar cost be affordable you ask?
Well in Democrat America everything is affordable because you borrow yourself into oblivion and you also make hard working people that struggled their way to the top pay for it.
The democrats are succeediing now because the unions have their hands out and politicians are in their back pocket. Also the dems created the idea that middle America can care less about debt because the rich are evil and should pay for it all.
Middle america for the most part doesnt read or get involved because they are more concerned on who the next American idol is or who is the next survivor.
I find it hilarious that the dems seemed so appaled that Amercians are personally in debt by buying houses or cars or big screen TV’s they cant afford when they do the exact same thing.
November 7th, 2009 | 2:23 pm | #57
President and Mrs. Bush visted the troops to day and didn’t do a PHOTO OPT. Barry is too busy smelling up Washington. Hey, anyone there smell sulfer?
November 7th, 2009 | 2:31 pm | #58
gus,
Thanks for saying the Bushes’ have class, and I’d like to add, selfless compassion.
The Obamas’ have tiny little twisted minds that want to grab power. They have the audacity to think they should be controlling everything.
Tyrants.
November 7th, 2009 | 2:34 pm | #59
The “D” stands for deceitful. (Or dishonest….choose one!)
November 7th, 2009 | 2:45 pm | #60
I just read that the Obamas’ went to Camp David for the weekend.
All work and no play makes Jack Squat a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack Squat a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack Squat a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack Squat a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack Squat a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack Squat a dull boy.
-The Shining
November 7th, 2009 | 2:47 pm | #61
Don’t be fooled with democrats. Everyone who has D’s when they run for office are liars and corrupt. All CEO’s and directors (democrats appointees) looted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. AARP will be pocketing millions of dollars while deny seniors with the care they need. Stop voting democrats.
November 7th, 2009 | 2:52 pm | #62
Well Owens did the right thing. The Pelosi plan does what the BOZO needs: Bankrupt the States, Ration HealtCare, place control into the Hands of the Central Authorities, and make Narcissit Bozo a champion of Dictator/Socalialist Control.
November 7th, 2009 | 3:20 pm | #63
Muslim who attended the same mosque as Hasan told a BBC interviewer he has “no pity” for the victims massacred:
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-honestly-have-no-pity-for-them.html
November 7th, 2009 | 3:34 pm | #64
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NY-23 next election prediction:
HOFFMAN WINS BY A LANDSLIDE!!
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November 7th, 2009 | 4:53 pm | #65
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November 7th, 2009 | 5:00 pm | #66
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Glenn Beck Show November 6, 2009
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November 7th, 2009 | 5:52 pm | #67
Hi guys! Do you still believe that a peaceful coexistence with those morons is still possible?
November 7th, 2009 | 6:22 pm | #68
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November 7th, 2009 | 7:53 pm | #69
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November 8th, 2009 | 7:55 pm | #70
If his lips were moving he was lying. I hope the voters of NY 23 remember his pledge next year. A typical lying Democrap
November 12th, 2009 | 10:43 am | #71
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November 13th, 2009 | 4:26 pm | #72
[...] also took a jab at Owens for already breaking 4 of his campaign promises his first week in office including voting for the democrat’s nationalized health care plan. [...]
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