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Posted at 10:02pm on Jun. 19, 2008 Just words?

By Jeff Emanuel

Just for clarification, it appears that when Democrat Congressman Paul Kanjorski, of PA-11, says:

I shared the frustration of my constituents that the war in Iraq continued...I expressed my belief that some Democrats in 2006 overestimated the ability of a single house of Congress to end the war, particularly in the face of an intransigent President and Senate Republicans who are committed to continuing the war

...it actually means, "I'm going to vote for giving the President everything he wants and more in the next Iraq Supplemental I get the chance to vote on."

Thanks for the clarification, Congressman. It's appreciated, not least by your gullible netroot supporters, I'm sure.

Posted at 9:04am on Jun. 19, 2008 Rep. Paul Kanjorski is like an ignorant kid who doesn't know anything about economics

I wonder how much a gallon of milk and a case of Depends are running these days for a suddenly endangered Member of Congress

By Jeff Emanuel

If you're like me and are on way too many email lists involving way too many people you don't know, chances are you've gotten a ridiculous forward (or six) like this one, which I received last Spring:

NO GAS...On May 15th 2007
Don't pump gas on may 15th
In April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.

On May 15th 2007, all internet users are asked not to purchase gas in protest of the high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in a lot of places.

There are 73,000,000+ American members currently on the internet network, and the average car takes about 30 to 50 dollars to fill up.

If all users did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take
$2,292,000,000.00 (that's almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companys[sic] pockets for just one day, so please do not go to the gas station on May 15th and lets try to put a dent in the Middle Eastern oil industry for at least one
day.

If you agree (and I cant see why you wouldn't) resend this to all your contact list. With it saying, "Don't pump gas on May 15th"

Remember Friend:
Don't Pump Gas on May 15th

Now, as any person with half a brain and a sixth-grade understanding of economics knows, as nice as this might sound, simple economics will tell you that it is an urban legend. Say that everybody doesn't pump gas on one day. If they still drive the same amount as any other day, the same amount of gas is needed; it's a "zero-sum game" - you'll just make up for that gas used by purchasing more on a different day. If you use the same number of gallons to drive, then you'll need to replace the same number of gallons; it doesn't matter one bit if you do it on one day or another - the same amount will be spent on the gas.

In fact, contrary to the nice idea floated in this email, if there was to be a shift in prices as a result of a day-long boycott on gas purchase that wasn't matched by a boycott in gas use, that shift would actually be upward, as there would be a greater need for gas, and therefore a greater willingness (out of necessity, not desire) to spend more on gasoline, rather than less.

Less demand or more supply is the only way to effectively lower prices; simply shifting the demand from one day to another will not accomplish that in the least. Creating more fuel efficiency, or recovering and refining more domestic oil, will increase the supply or decrease the demand and positively affect prices; a one-day boycott, as nice as it may sound, will not accomplish anything at all other than to cause a glut at the pump the next day.

As a result of this fact, the story told in the previous email is, quite simply, false.

Of course, Pennsylvania has a Congressman who either doesn't get that, or is so busy pandering to the stupid and ignorant in his district in hopes of saving his suddenly-endangered seat.

Read on.

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Posted at 8:51am on Jun. 12, 2008 "I don't apologize to ANYONE!" says Democrat Congressman who admitted lying about Iraq to win 2006 election

By Jeff Emanuel

Pennsylvania Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D) has made news for both accidental honesty and ill-timed, transparent duplicity in the last couple weeks.

Now, in an attempt to control that damage and prevent further gaffes (which would cause damage to his apparently Keystone State-sized ego), Kanjorski is refusing to answer any questions about the statements that previously got him into trouble with the media, the voters, and his Congressional Democrat masters.

Video below [Note: Watch the female staffer's face when she realizes what "Charlie" is about to ask her boss.]:

Kanjorski begins the conversation by immediately telling the questioner, "You're not going to put words in my mouth" -- and then proceeds, from there, to deny, deny, deny and deny some more the contents of a (rough) transcript of Kanjorski's previously-videotaped statement that:

We really in this last election, when I say we...the Democrats, I think pushed it as far as we can to the end of the fleet, didn't say it, but we implied it.

That if we won the Congressional elections, we could stop the war. Now anybody was a good student of Government would know that wasn't true. But you know, the temptation to want to win back the Congress, we sort of stretched the facts...and people ate it up."

Apparently being number two (or less) to Ex-Marine Jack Murtha can work wonders for a man's ego, as well as his self-assurance that he need never apologize to anybody for what he may have said or done.

Clearly, Mr. Kanjorski would rather we all forget his admission that Democrats used and abused the naive, trusting anti-war, Code Pink left in order to win back Congress -- as well as his braggadocios claim, after vocally and vigorously opposing the 2007 'surge' in Iraq, that he and Democrats actually forced President Bush into enacting that successful strategy.

Unfortunately for Rep. Kanjorski (D), we won't forget or ignore that.

And neither should the voters of Pennsylvania-11.

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Posted at 12:31pm on Jun. 3, 2008 PA-11: Freedom's Watch goes after Kanjorski on the military

By Soren Dayton

Several weeks ago, our own Jeff Emanuel broke the news that Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA-11) admitted that the Democrats lied about the war for political advantage. Today, Freedom's Watch is hitting Kanjorski with robocalls recorded by Beverly Perlson, the founder of the Band of Mothers, (see her story here) to explain his morally bankrupt position to voters.

Listen to the robocall here.

Give money to Lou Barletta, Kanjorski's opponent, and check out Band of Mothers here.

Script after the jump.

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Posted at 5:03pm on Jun. 2, 2008 Democrat Congressman: "We've taken public positions which...forced the president...into the surge...which is working"

Yet more question marks come out of the open mouth of the Pennsylvania Congressman

By Jeff Emanuel

Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA), who recently gained media attention for his videotaped admission that, due to "temptation to want to win back the Congress," Democrats "stretched the facts" regarding their ability to actually end the war in Iraq, appears to be back for a video encore. This time, the Democratic Congressman appears in a video making two distinct statements regarding the 'Surge' strategy that has been so effective in Iraq.

The video is below; below that is a transcript.

In February 2007, Kanjorski went to the floor of the House to say:

Ms. Speaker, I rise today to join the overwhelming majority of the American people, the Congress, and many top U.S. military commanders to voice my opposition to President Bush's ill-conceived plan to send more American troops into the middle of an ongoing Civil War in Iraq

Then, in an interview from just days ago, Kanjorski said:

We've taken public positions which have now forced the president to go into the surge mentality, which is somewhat working

Recently, it was his unfortunate honesty that hurt him; this time, it will be that honesty combined with a penchant for duplicitousness that will come back to haunt him.

Read on.

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Posted at 9:16pm on May 22, 2008 Congressman admits Democrats "stretched the facts," misled anti-war supporters about supposed plans for ending War

By Jeff Emanuel

Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) has been a fairly undistinguished member of the House of Representatives for nearly a quarter of a century. He is a career member of the Financial Services Committee who has made little or no name for himself since his first electoral victory, and has maintained incumbency through the funneling of pork back to his district. Even his Wikipedia entry says that Kanjorski "usually plays behind-the-scenes roles in the advocacy or defeat of legislation and steers appropriations money toward improving the infrastructure and economic needs of his district."

Never one to stand out in a crowd outside of his own district if he could help it up until now, Rep. Kanjorski's public life may be about to change in a major way very, very quickly, and for a very big reason.

You see, Paul Kanjorski has an honesty problem.

More specifically, Paul Kanjorski's problem is that he was publicly honest about the intentional dishonesty of Congressional Democrats (and Democrat candidates) in the run-up to the 2006 election -- particularly with regard to the War in Iraq.

Watch the video below (a transcript follows):

More below the fold....

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