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Patrick Murphy: You Deserved to Lose Your Seat!

Former Congressman Patrick Murphy joined Congress as one of the Blue Dog Democrats who wiped out Republican majorities in 2006.

He advertised himself as a fiscal conservative in a swing-district in Pennsylvania.

When President Obama came to office in 2008, however, Murphy showed his true deep blue colors. He voted for every wasteful spending bill pressed by the Obama Administration.

Murphy supported Cap-and-Trade, and he supported the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

Earlier this week, Murphy submitted

to MSNBc.com that his vote for Obamacare was worth losing his seat, and he would vote for the bill again if he had to.

He was worth losing, without a doubt, but the idea that the American People should have to suffer with Obamacare: that was not fair.

Murphy boasts that he has kept his own insurance. Pennsylavnians cannot claim the same, sadly.

Pennsylvanians are losing their health insurance, and losing fast.

Hospitals have closed or discontinued key services in the Keystone State because of Obamacare.

Doctors are giving up Medicare patients because of the law. They are leaving the profession because of Obamacare's rules, regulations, and red tape.

Ex-Congressman Murphy deserved to lose his house seat for supporting this terrible law. But the residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are still struggling, straining, and suffering.

Let's hope that Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick stands his ground against Obamacare for the greater good of Pennsylvania and the country.

No matter what happens, however, every resident of Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District should shout:

"Patrick Murphy: You Deserved to Lose Your Seat!"

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