The AP is reporting that Bart Stupak has decided to retire from Congress and not seek a 10th term. Stupak, a leader of the pro-life faction of Democrats has received harsh criticism from his erstwhile enthusiasts in that community following the deal he made with the Obama administration to support the health care reform package. Both Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, the two highest ranking Democrats in the House urged him to run again, as his district will be very difficult for another member of the party to hold.
Stupak would have faced challengers from both the right and the left in this year’s campaign, which has found vast funding to both his expected Republican contender and from pro-choice Democratic groups to a primary challenge. Stupak, following the compromise he received from the administration, received a number of threats which he publicized and may have played a part in his decision. He is expected to announce his decision today.
April 9th, 2010 at 9:48 am
It took the guy nine terms to achieve his fifteen minutes of fame.
Was it worth it Bart?
April 9th, 2010 at 10:09 am
“Was it worth it Bart?”
He’ll have health insurance for the rest of his life now.
I dont know, does the coverage these guys get include cranial glutal removal surgery ?
I guess it wont matter as long as he stays near the lake and does a little fishing
April 9th, 2010 at 10:47 am
Indiana Right to Life has set a national precedent by adopting a new policy resolution denying its endorsement to any Democrats.
Indiana Right to Life is forwarding its newly-adopted resolution to pro-life organizations across the nation and says it hopes other groups will abide by the same principles.
There are 3 so-called pro-life Democrats from Indiana in the House. All voted for ObamaCare.
The fallout continues. You’re not alone Bart!!
April 9th, 2010 at 11:30 am
fm, if what you wrote in #3 is right, and I always assume everything you write is correct, that would be a major mistake for the rtl groups. Generally, for groups that are non-economic to succeed in public policy, they need to have bipartisan support. Otherwise, when they are subsumed within a party, they become a captive to that party (like civil rights groups)and never win.
April 9th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Hey Arriba,
i hope you are feeling well.
i just got buried in a statistical talk.
my thesis is all about stochastic variables, and how to handle non-linear correlation, non-normal/non-gaussian distributions, and non-independent variables …
and this guy just kept asking me,
man: “why are the test scores correlated?”
me: “because they are”
man: “but why?”
me: “maybe because all the children have the same teacher, they are just correlated.”
man: “but why?”
me: “well, if they had the same teacher, then you would expect them to be exposed to the same material”
man: “but there could be other reasons to, exogenous and endogenous reasons”
me: “yes … there could be.”
man: “how do you know why they are correlated?”
me: “i do not care why they are correlated, i just care that they are correlated and the distributions are somewhat stationary”
man: “but don’t you want to know why?”
me: “not really, as long as long as the distributions are fairly stationary”
man: “in education we want to know why”
me: “ok, you can research why, i just want to show how you handle the mathematics.
man: “but what does it matter if you don’t know why?”
me: “because the multi-nominal distribution will give you insights that you would not otherwise have about the children’s progress, and if you assume the children are independent you will get the wrong insights”
man: “i don’t understand”
me: “because your broken Y chromosome only has 78 genes on it …”
man: “but why?”
arrrrrrrrrrrrg … it is so frustrating to try to show a complicated example and someone keeps interupting.
April 9th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
i swear next time i am bringing a baseball bat
April 9th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
lisab, on a related not to what you wrote, a friend asked me to review his model to see what I’d find. I told him that when I used multinomial logit, I found that his hypotheses were repudiated. He said he didn’t understand m-logit, but could I verify his hypotheses if I just used crosstabs. I took an aspirin.
btw, my favorite variable with education is that it turns out that the one thing that correlates with sat scores is how many books are in your parent’s home.