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Melancon Backs into Losing Healthcare Corner
Monday, 21 September 2009 09:37
Daily Comet
It’s never a good sign when a challenger devotes most campaign rhetoric to playing defense and trying to criticize the incumbent as a rejoinder.
It’s even worse when his arguments factually fall flat. At this rate, Democrat Rep. Charlie Melancon is going to have a long year-plus ahead of him.
In the brief but early campaign for the Senate seat of Republican David Vitter who intends to continue the claim on the seat, Melancon has been on the defensive from the beginning on precisely the issue where Vitter has been on the march, health-insurance changes.
Vitter has become a leading opponent of Democrat plans to boost regulation, vastly increase spending and create a system to herd the populace into a government-run system.
