Pallone says he's with Clinton until the end; says Andrews is "not a progressive"

It's one thing to leave the dance with the one that "brung ya." I admire that and it shows at least a decent amount of character and appreciation (paybackto election-year Clinton pop ins @ rallies and fund-raisers?). All in all, kind of a class move if you ask me.

With that said, to keep bringing up Florida and Michigan shows a real weasel side that many people simply don't respect.

If Pallone or Hilary or Corzine or anyone objected to the banishment of Florida and Michigan, they should've said something BEFORE THE FACT. After the fact, makes ya look like kind of a hack-tacular sleazebag.

Disenfranchising the voters of Florida and Michigan? Maybe. But the voters and the parties have a voice now: it's called the internet, blogs, chat rooms, and the like. Somebody should've said something. Maybe I missed it(and please call me out if I did) but there should have been an uprising among the state parties about this, instead of their "sc*** you!" attitiude they gave to the DNC.

In the end, this just makes Pallone look like a small-time hack, albeit a classy and loyal hack.......

Anyone who describes themself as a progressive is just afraid to call themselves a liberal!

Pallone is the most overrated member of the delegation. He has zero coattails for years has enable Shore Republicans versus helping Democrats at the municipal, county and legislative levels.

Rob Andrews is far more in line with NJ Democrats than Frank Lautenberg or Frank Pallone, both tax & spend liberal appeasement cronies.

Andrews is in step with NJ while Pallone is to the left of Code Pink! The guy is unelectable beyond his copngressional seat and is dumb for attacking a guy who if je loses will take back his house seat.

Maybe Pallone should ask the fossil about his support for Joe Lieberman for president in 04!

Vote Column - All the way!

He knows Hillary is toast. The only way she can win at this point would be something extremely dirty or extremely tragic.

Hillary had a chance to take a few weeks and bow out with grace and saved face while helping the party .

Her recent racially insensitive counterproductive remarks disqualify her from any further "loyalty" on the part of Pallone or of any other super delegate.

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Pallone, the Chair of the very committee in the House of Representatives that is charged with reviewing bills which affect the health of people across this country, yesterday took an unprecedented step—he capitulated to the powerful Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) to the detriment of patients nationwide, patients in NJ, and his own constituents. He will not post the Lyme bill in Congress until the IDSA convenes its new guidelines’ panel and issues a decision. He has chosen no treatment for chronic Lyme patients, no alternative treatments and no supplements.

Pallone might as well join forces with the ultra right wing crazies who still believe HIV is an act of God against gays. His actions place him squarely in the special interest’s corner, along with George W Bush. Like HIV, Lyme disease is a serious and insidious disease that is only recently been identified and the treatment of which is complicated and poorly understood.

The IDSA has been shown by recent investigations by the Attorney General of Connecticut to be a cartel of vested interest masquerading under the banner of science.

What Mr. Pallone has done is tell Lyme patients that their ability to have research hinges on the decision of a private medical society that has commercial interests in the results and that has been under investigation for allowing its panel of researchers with extensive commercial interests to corrupt its guidelines’ panel. Essentially, he is delegating public policy decision to a medical specialty society whose guidelines are under scrutiny and that has evidenced a profound lack of accountability and responsibility in policing the rampant conflicts of interests of its panel members.

The Lyme disease controversy is not about patients, it is not about the greater good, it is about greed. Patient health has been sacrificed by IDSA to pave the way for those who hold patents, those who have an interest in Lyme testing and vaccines, and those who have a consulting relationship with insurance companies. Pallone’s public alignment with the commercial interests of the IDSA show how powerful commercial interests in medicine can drive healthcare and exclude entirely the interests of patients.

Pallone has taken mucho bucks in donations from various 'commercial interests' in the health-care industry