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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-11 12:03 PM
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okay, this HIll article about my rep is a bit odd
This was the original title:

Rep. Welch: A liberal willing to reach for bipartisanship

This is the current title:

Rep. Welch: Partisan division begs clean vote to raise nation's debt ceiling


here's some of what it says:

<snip>

Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), who has emerged in recent weeks as the staunchest proponent of a standalone debt-ceiling hike, said the parties are simply too far apart ideologically to reach a budget deal in time to avoid the market turmoil many fear would attend inaction on the debt limit.

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It’s not the first time Welch has emerged on the national stage amid a thorny budget debate. In December, he was among the fiercest opponents of the agreement between Obama and McConnell to extend the George W. Bush-era tax cuts through 2012, even for the wealthiest Americans.

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In some sense, Welch’s rise to prominence is as improbable as passage of the clean debt-ceiling hike he’s lobbying. The third-term liberal is a relative newcomer to Capitol Hill. And the Vermont he represents hardly shares the national political reputation that characterizes many of its New England neighbors.

Yet lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say Welch’s emergence is no accident. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), a Blue Dog leader who shares a Capitol Hill apartment with the liberal Welch, said his roommate studies hard and uses his experience as a state legislator to great advantage in Washington.

<snip>

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/159343-rep-welch-a-liberal-willing-to-reach-for-bipartisanship

so why did they change the title?

Read the comments section. Pretty clear they got bullied by wingnuts.
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