"You're mad at me"?

[Perky]

MASSILLON, Ohio— To watch TV or read the polls, Rep. John Boccieri might seem a goner. But put him on the stump, face-to-face with voters, the Ohio Democrat comes alive — a political natural, almost Frank Capra character from another time in American campaigns.

“You’re mad at me? My wife’s mad at me too this morning. We’ve been married 13 years,” Boccieri will say, softening the blow of the day’s first encounter on his voting for health care reform. And like the C-130 pilot he once was, the 41-year-old freshman congressman begins to break down the massive bill as if going through one of his old Air Force checklists when flying troops and wounded in and out of Baghdad.

“You OK with the fact that we’re allowing kids to stay on until they’re 26? We’re also saying you can’t deny children because of pre-existing conditions. You like that?” he asks. “We aren’t finished with this. It’s the first step, but we have to start somewhere” and then out might come his pocket copy of the Constitution. “It’s we the people, not we the corporations,” Boccieri closes.

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[BootinUp]

1. Is the disease he clearly has, communicable? nt

[Perky]

2. It would be nice wouldn't it..

[Mimosa]

3. We need more congree reps like Rep. John Boccieri . n/t