Predictably, John Spratt defied his constituents once again and decided to placate San Francisco liberals and his gate keeper Nancy Pelosi.  He of course voted in favor of the health care destruction bill.  Despite his coyness, Spratt intended all along to vote for the bill.  He was never undecided or on the fence.

This bill will force you to buy health insurance that is only approved by the Federal government.  If you don’t buy it you’ll be fined by the IRS and sent to jail if you don’t pay the fine.  Over 15,000 new IRS agents will have to be hired to enforce this new provision, an explosive growth in the Federal government.  Your health insurance premiums will continue to rise.  And this is all just the tip of the iceberg.

Spratt is one of the incumbents who will be most impacted by the legislation’s final drive. Facing a tough re-election campaign this fall against state Sen. Mick Mulvaney (R), Spratt has been unapologetically in favor of passing a reform measure, and intimately involved in the process too. If GOPers are going to take back the House, they will need to argue that long-time members like Spratt have lost touch with their districts, and that the health care bill is proof. Spratt won’t make it easy for the GOP, but he’s in for a much tougher re-election contest than he’s had for quite some time.

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While speaking to a group of Democrats at Lancaster County’s 2010 Democrat Convention, Spratt had the following to say regarding ObamaCare.

Spratt defended his support of the Affordable Health Care for America Act, a bill that has been debated by U.S. Congress for months. He champions the bill, as well as President Barack Obama’s involvement in trying to pass the bill in Congress.

“I would have liked to see the bill done a bit differently, but he’s (Obama) done a magnificent job on it,” Spratt said. “This is something Presidents Truman, Nixon, Ford and Clinton have tried to do before, and I give him credit for trying.”

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Is this guy kidding?  This piece of crap that they have put together, that will increase the price of your health care plans, unconstitutionally require you to get insurance or go to jail, and put the government in control of what kind of health care plan you are allowed to have is magnificent?

Republicans were quick to point out that Spratt’s fourth-quarter fundraising total included just four donations from South Carolina residents.

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Well that pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?  Spratt might be able to get money from special interests around the country, but nobody here in South Carolina wants to see him back in Washington and we’re the ones who will be voting.

With national attention being placed on spending, healthcare “reform” and jobs, it’s easy to forget that, as Tip O’neill said, “All politics is local.”

With this in mind, I reached out to the Republican candidate for the 5th Congressional District in SC, Michael (Mick) Mulvaney.  Currently Mulvaney is a state senator, but he now seeks national office, and, more specifically, the seat of Rep. John Spratt (D).  Unseating Rep. Spratt will be no easy task.  He’s a 14-term incumbent and Chairman of the Budget Finance Committee.

In spite of this, Time Magazine named Sen. Mulvaney’s campaign to be of the top five (out of 500) races to likely deliver a stunning Scott Brown-style upset in the 2010 elections.

Read more at RedState

Mick Mulvaney will be holding a fund raiser in Charlotte on Friday, March 5th starting at noon.  Details on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=338541629455